Every Apple keyboard -- ranked!

November 17, 2022

If you're a graybeard Mac user like many of us here at Cult of Mac, you've probably used quite a few different Apple keyboards over the years.

Perhaps no other type of device that Apple makes has been so inconsistent. The company has created some great keyboards -- and some truly terrible ones.

Although he's no old fogey, our resident retro expert D. Griffin Jones has amassed an impressive collection of vintage Apple machines. He's also used just about every keyboard Cupertino ever made.

Jones ranked the Apple keyboards from worst to best. Do you agree with his findings?

-- Leander Kahney, EIC.

I haven't used all of Apple's keyboards, but I've come close. Here's my review of every one of them -- ranked from worst to best.

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Apple will bundle gift cards of up to $250 with the purchase of certain products during its special shopping event for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

Digiarty's easy-to-use VideoProc Converter takes the pain out of dealing with the dizzying array of video file formats on Mac or PC.

Current iPhone models only support USB 2.0 transfer speeds over Lightning, but rumors indicate Apple will transition to the USB Type-C connector across its entire iPhone lineup next year. However, the faster data transfer speeds could be limited to the Pro.

It's an all-in-one microphone for streaming, capturing vocals, playing instruments and recording podcasts.

iPad cases that act as stands to prop up the tablet’s screen are old news. But the Moft Snap Float Folio takes the concept to a new level ... literally.

On November 17, 1995, Apple seeded a beta of its Mac OS Copland operating system to about 50 developers. The full version was never released.

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One more thing ...

"One of the things that I've always found is that you've gotta start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're gonna try to sell it." -- Steve Jobs, WWDC, 1997.

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