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I love my iMac and can’t imagine going back to a PC, but I do miss the raised keys on the PC keyboards. I’ve never gotten used to the relatively flat keys on the Magic keyboards. Can anyone recommend another keyboard, with the necessary keys, eg, Control, Option, and Command, and function keys. Doesn’t have to be wireless. In fact, I sometimes use my old Dell wired mouse, but for some reason, gave the PC keyboard away. Thank you.
iPhone 13, 2019 iMac(SSD)
This looks decent and for a great price with mouse included, whether you need it or not the price is right for both. USB wired, plain and simple.
Amazon – Macally Keyboard for Mac
I was looking at the keys and they appear raised, unlike the flat keys we get these days for Mac. The reviews are mostly favorable, price being a factor and some have compared it to be better than Apple Magic Keyboard’s thin profile.
Good luck and hope you find a keyboard that works to suit your needs for comfort.
MacOS iPadOS and sometimes SOS
Thanks Alex5723 I learned from these choices that what I want is called a “full profile” keyboard such as the Keychron K10.
iPhone 13, 2019 iMac(SSD)
The NuPhy Air96 V2 is a good option as you can customize a range of settings that Keychron K10 doesn’t have.
There is also NuPhy Halo96
“Windows” keyboards should also work just fine. I say this as you might find one that fits your preferences but has the “Alt” and “Win” labels. Or, some even have dual labels on the key caps.
Back when I first got a MacBook Pro, I just kept using a keyboard I already had – full size and full key height, mechanical, and Windows-centric. I think it took me about a week to get used to the different key combos – training my brain for new finger positions.
The keys that are wrongly labeled for mac OS (Alt, Win) still invoke mac OS functions. But if memory serves, it’s basically as if you physically swapped the positions of Option and Command. So that would take some retraining.
Or, as I just found out, you can tell mac OS to remap those two keys:
https://www.guidingtech.com/use-a-windows-keyboard-with-a-mac/
I never thought to look for this back then, so I had just practiced using new finger positions for shortcuts.
To clarify, it’s not a modification to the keyboard itself. When you press a key that you changed a setting for in mac OS, that key sends the same signal (on the hardware level) that it always has. It is the OS itself effectively intervening and treating it as a different key. If you were to plug that Dell keyboard into a PC, Alt and Win will behave as they always do for those.
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