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New Apple keyboard?
Engadget claims to have photos of the next iMac keyboard. The keyboard features the same brushed-aluminum finish rumored to adorn the new iMac and is roughly 1cm thick. What's more, the keys appear to be those little white chicklets found in the Macbook.
My wrists hurt already.
If this rumor turns out to be true, then we've come full circle.
Less than ten years after the original iMac debuted with the "carpel tunnel special" cramped keyboard and hockey puck mouse, Apple has returned to crush what's left of your joints. Just when it seemed like they were starting to get it with Mighty Mouse, the boys in Cupertino go and staple chicklets to a sheet of aluminum.
Fortunately, users have a couple things in their favor should this ergonomic scourge in fact be unleashed: The peripheral companies have gotten so used to cleaning up after Apple's crummy keyboard designs that good-looking and comfortable alternatives should be out in no time. We can also take comfort in the knowledge Apple tends to re-write its hardware designs so often that should it indeed prove to be a wrist-ender, this keyboard will not make it to the next iMac revision.
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