The throw on the keystrokes is very short and very easy to enact.

overall, it's a great, ergonomically good keyboard.

-- Eject: that rationale is probably the one they had at Apple too. I have never had this kind of accidental eject.

-- Window/Apple: and yet this is how I have seen several people react, before realising the real swap is between Ctrl (PC) and Cmd (Mac). Check the “what changed on your keyboard” question on recent switchers.

-- Magnetic keys: sounds nice but not cost-effective.

(All this in addition to the several points raised previously, of course.)

I personally am happy to see eject moved above delete, not just because 'delete' and 'eject' share a bond in a world where you can eject a disc by dragging it to the trash, but because it might finally stop me from accidentally popping my drive open when something brushes the corner of my keyboard.

As for the 'window becomes apple' comment, I don't understand. The 'window' key does something completely different on Windows than the 'apple' key does on a Mac. What's the value in telling switchers that 'window becomes apple'? Don't they press the 'apple' expecting a start menu to pop up? Aren't they frustrated when they see that pressing that key along does nothing at all?

If I could change anything about this keyboard it would be to make the fn key modal, with a little green light so I could easily switch between using the keys for my application's purposes and for the OS purposes.

As is always the case with Apple's overloading of the function keys, there would certainly be the option to turn off the 'special features' attributed to the pictographed function keys if you should so choose.

That said, it would be splendid if the keys were magnetically attached so you could pop them off (heck, perhaps even rearrange them (how sweet would that be?) and pop on 'unscribbled' keys if that was your choice. For that matter, it would be cool to get keys with no markings at all. For the strong touch-typists, that would be one clean-looking keyboard.

- Help key I have used this key intensively in my first three years-or-so of computing.
- Delete key: this fallacy has been corrected on the MacBook keyboard.
- ^ key: I can concede this shifted key is a waste of plastic and that I will not cry at its burial.
- And please, please do not tell me that not 'every change a personal attack against me' when Apple* starts** thinking about drawing on my Fn keys to tell me what to do with them.

You probably got the idea that I wrote the same kind of comment when they changed my Performa keyboard onwards. I did not.

Cautionary cues: * if this is a genuine Apple model — ** the model is obviously developmental.

For devil's advocacy, how do you feel about them removing the 'help' button? How much do you hate the volume controls on current keyboards? You know, the ones over the f*cking numeric keypad? How much sense does that f*cking make?

How dumb is it that there are two (count 'em) TWO keys both labeled 'delete' that do different things on the current keyboard? Insane!

And what's the deal with that fucking ^ key that you get when you hit shift-6? What's that for, other than for japanese teens to make fucking cat smilies ^__^?? Waste of space.

Seriously, I'm mostly kidding, but dude, you've gotta see that not every change is the end of the world, nor is every change a personal attack against you. Of course, if you disagree, you should really take it up with the man himself. You can write to him at fakestevejobs@gmail.com.