Every currently shipping Mac has built-in Bluetooth, so why doesn't someone make a nice Bluetooth desktop instead of requiring a RF dongle to occupy a USB port?

It's not that bad IMO. Not great, but not heinous either. However, if I were to buy one I'd prefer a split key setup. Flat boards suck ... with one exception: http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/

BTW who the heck NEEDS a wireless keyboard anyway? Why waste money and batteries on a device that will rarely move off the desktop?

First, I don't like MS products. Second, it is "coming soon" not a shipping product. Third, it has some cool features that Apple doesn't want to include on their products, so why belly ache about it. Fourth, I like the quick zoom feature and such so that some funtionality can be pawned off on to hardware rather than just software windowing. Fifth, it is typical pc overkill of features, but competition in input devices is a good thing.

When I first read the article, I thought MS had finally done something with style. When I got to the link I thought, "ugh".

If you guys want style check out the logitech 530 keyboard and mice for $99 bucks:

http://tinyurl.com/8gx29

or

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/EN,CRI D=2162,CONTENTID=11420

[url=http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/]http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/[/url]

Oh man! What glorious keyboard is THAT! I knew [i]Art. Lebedev[/i] made great art, but that keyboard! Darn, me want, me wants! I know of that Danish company that makes replacement keys for the Apple keybaords, for Photoshop, Final Cut and other such creative applications, but this is incredulous! It'll look really good with my new iMac I'm buying later this year...

MSFT just don't get it... They never got it.

Microsoft announces product, I slump over in boredom.

Is it just me, or has the quality of MS explorer mice actually gone down? It seems to me the quality of Logitech's mice is far superior to Microsoft's.

Yes, why not Bluetooth? It's built-in! No need to attach an ugly device to your Mac.

Who needs wireless keyboard? For a desktop solution you would probably not need it, but, for a Media Center - you would. I have a Mac mini Intel and use it as a Media Center connected to my 52" HDTV. The only part is missing - a nice, small, wireless bluetooth keyboard with a track pad on it.

Apple Remote is great, but sometimes you need to search something or use the browser for instance to watch a streaming TV or radio

with the solutions presented is the fact that they are not ergonomic. I have a keyboard similar in design to this one, and I will not get it because of that, The reason I would not recommend it is because I dislike the wireless keyboard. I always seem to miss keystrokes because of it. I plan on getting a wired keyboard when I can.

Wish that Optimus would come in a split key design. That looks innovative and useful except its hard to go back to flat boards after using an ergo board.

if I ay. This looks like a Microsoft Wireless Laser Desktop 6000 Keyboard and mouse which I see at staples for 99 dollars, so I don't think the price has been jacked up, but you probably won't find any deals on it like the 6000 so will end up costing more, just because its a "mac" product. (I think is just the 6000 re-branded with the slightly different key markers, which would be nice, I am looking for stickers to put on mine that will show the proper keys)

Requires a software installation? How un-mac like. How dare any hardware product require driver software to get its full functionality working. Apple seems to be able to make hardware for their computers that doesn't require extra software (as long as you're running the latest version of the OS).

And there's no apple character on the apple key? How can it be made-for-mac without the famed but pointless apple character on the key (pointless because its not the apple character that shows up in menus, in case you didn't know, its that freakin' cloverleaf).

And did MS put all those other symbols on their keys to indicate what it is (you know how apple uses the up arrow for shift, the caret for control, and some weird symbol for option, but don't put the characters on the keyboard, forcing people to basically guess what combination its supposed to do)?

And mike3k, who states Every currently shipping Mac has built-in Bluetooth, so why doesn't someone make a nice Bluetooth desktop instead of requiring a RF dongle to occupy a USB port?"

First, Bluetooth is not standard on the PowerMacs, so every shipping mac does not include it. Second, maybe they don't make it bluetooth because, while all new macs now include bluetooth, more mac users likely don't have bluetooth on their computers. Why restrict your product to a small minority of all computer users? (And I'm basing this on everyone saying how long macs last, well over 3 years, supposedly, and bluetooth has only been standard for maybe one year).

Of course, it wouldn't be so much of a problem occupying a USB port if Apple actually supplied an ample number of USB ports on their computers (the lead, right now, is the mini, of all things, with 4 whole ports. Top of the line mac only has three, laptops tend to have 2). A paucity of ports that Apple, somehow, gets away with (I just love having my printer plugged into the front port, swapping it out for my iPod).

I have several Microsoft keyboards, at least i think they are MS because the first thing i always do is paste a fortune cookie message (aka 'fortune') over the Microsoft logo, like "a surprise treat awaits you" or "you will be called upon to help a friend in trouble" (after all, many of us do know and can assist hapless Windows users).

This new keyboard from MS is not worthy of the standard fortune cookie mod.