

The Magic Keyboard goes for about a month between charges for me. What? You might want to give Apple Support a call on that. Lots of switches are designed with spacing for LED lights these days.

It also may be easier to find mechanicals that are backlit. You can click through on those images to a site that has a lot of very interesting keyboards. There are so many interesting layouts being produced these days. These two novel layouts only scratch the surface.

If you absolutely need that fwd delete as a separate key, here are a couple of very interesting layouts that aim to be as compact as possible, but also give you some keys that you only normally get in a full 101 key layout. Holding down my Caps Lock and pressing either will give me a forward delete. I can't live without a forward delete so I assign my own using a program like Keyboard Maestro. Razer made one too.īut what to do for a forward delete key? You can easily remap some keys and make your own forward delete. You might have an interest in checking some of those out. Cherry's been releasing some switches they dub as "Speed" switches that are mechanical switches with a shorter throw. Apple's not the only company that has a new type of switch. They're very much in the now and some really interesting variants are coming out these days. Mechanical keyboards aren't really retro anymore. There are plenty of low profile keyboards hitting the market.
