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Simon · Aug 18, 2007, 02:35 AM

I ordered mine last week. It was supposed to ship Aug 15-17. Yesterday I received an e-mail that it would be delayed because of high demand. The shipping date was shifted by two weeks to Aug 29! The Apple Store still shows shipping in 3-5 days this morning though. So what's the deal?

yikes600 · Aug 18, 2007, 04:27 AM

I waited on my online order for about 5 days before canceling. My local Apple store got them in stock before my order ever shipped, so I'm typing on one right now. Yours probably has them already too.

Simon · Aug 18, 2007, 04:48 AM

There are no Apple stores where I live.

nerd · Aug 18, 2007, 03:32 PM

I got mine in yesterday, ground shipping and I ordered on the 10th. The Apple store here was telling me 3 weeks before they got theirs. I confirmed this was for the wired keyboard and not the Bluetooth one and they insisted it was 3 weeks for the wired one.

I like the keyboard but I might have to go back to my Microsoft Comfort Curve keyboard because my wrists are already starting to hurt. Sucks, I wish Apple would make an ergonomic keyboard.

Simon · Aug 19, 2007, 02:16 AM

What a coincidence. A few hours after I started this thread I got an e-mail from Apple saying it's shipped. There's no carrier tracking number yet, but I guess I'll get that tomorrow. I'm wondering why they push ship dates out so far when they've obviously just got a minor delay. Playing it safe I guess.

AceWilfong · Aug 19, 2007, 03:12 AM

I hope so...ship date for mine is Oct 2. Damn!

MacosNerd · Aug 19, 2007, 07:20 AM

I ordered mine last week and I just got notification that it shipped, the email included a tracking number. The shipping of the keyboard was faster then the 3-5 days which was the estimate.

On a side note, I also purchased iLife and that arrived 2 days after I ordered it, freaking fast especially because I chose the cheapest and presumably the slowest shipping method.

dohidied · Aug 21, 2007, 06:19 PM

I ordered mine last week and got it today. Too bad I can't get the keys for dashboard and expose to work.

kenw · Aug 21, 2007, 07:11 PM

Same problem here. The function keys for brightness, Expose, and Dashboard do not work. The other function keys all work fine. I am plugged into a dual 2.5 GHz G5. This is after upgrading the keyboard software as per the instructions.

MacosNerd · Aug 21, 2007, 07:27 PM

I got my keyboard looks great, I'm using it now. The key spacing is different and that's presenting some challenges since I'm a touch typist but overall its a great addition to my mac

jettyboy · Aug 22, 2007, 10:38 PM

Has anyone that has a new keyboard actually gotten anything to work on the usb hubs? Nothing I plug in works, no iPod, no card reader, camera etc. A mouse is the only thing that works, but I use a Blue Tooth mouse anyway. Everything worked fine using the white keyboard, now all I get is the "low power warning"

As a side note all my keys work fine. I'm running 10.4.10 on a G5 PPC, and did the keyboard update.

Randman · Aug 23, 2007, 07:12 AM

Got mine within a day of ordering. And hubs are working quite fine.

Simon · Aug 23, 2007, 09:27 AM

Ah, finally I got it.

I'll have to test it thouroughly, but I already like the sound. None of this plastic click-clack. Just a solid clonk.

jettyboy · Aug 23, 2007, 03:44 PM

Originally Posted by Randman

Got mine within a day of ordering. And hubs are working quite fine.

Wow that's great. A couple of questions. What machine & OS are you running? Does it really work when you plug in an iPod, or camera?

Cadaver · Aug 23, 2007, 06:23 PM

Originally Posted by jettyboy

Wow that's great. A couple of questions. What machine & OS are you running? Does it really work when you plug in an iPod, or camera?

I've tried a bluetooth USB dongle and a rev. 1 iPod Shuffle, both of which have worked fine. Flash drives also work fine. Wouldn't power a USB mini hard drive, but didn't expect it to.

Randman · Aug 23, 2007, 08:04 PM

Originally Posted by jettyboy

Wow that's great. A couple of questions. What machine & OS are you running? Does it really work when you plug in an iPod, or camera?

MBP 17 and 10.4.10. Have my headphones and wireless trackball connected at the moment and both work fine. I did download the software update for it right away though. I'll try a camera and iPod later.

jettyboy · Aug 23, 2007, 08:58 PM

I reinstalled the software update, and flash drives, and card reader now works. Hooray.

Simon · Aug 24, 2007, 03:51 AM

Hooked up the new keyboard to my MBP. My 5G iPod didn't mount when I connected it to the keyboard. OS X gave me the low power warning. OSo obviously iTunes didn't "see" the iPod. OTOH the iPod did charge while it was plugged in. Go figure.