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I also very much miss the keyboards that were on some of the old Hewlett-Packard terminals on which I used to work. They had a good feel, but the keys themselves were pretty quiet. The cool part was that there was a speaker that you could turn on/off built into the bottom of the keyboard that would mimic IBM-style keystroke sounds. The sound from the speaker was very tactile — a keyboard “subwoofer” so to speak.

The Matias Tactile Pro 3.0 plays nicely with your Mac out of the box with plug-and-play installation, and the key layout features reversed command and option keys. Tactile Pro Keyboard for Mac This is the ultimate keyboard for your Mac. Legendary, high performance Matias Click (Alps inspired) mechanical switches provide the ability to type faster, more accurately, and more comfortably.

Each Key wiggles slightly before you depress it. It does not have the tight feel of a quality keyboard. The angle of the Keyboard is also weird as well it sits too high and you can’t rest your wrists on your work surface and type without bending your hands up until its very uncomfortable. I was hoping for more and at $149 you should expect it. The misrepresentations of the MTP on Matias’s website are unforgivable.

This is a professional grade input device that any touch typist would love to get their hands on. Price: $99.95 Pros: Great tactile feedback 2 USB ports Special Mac keys Great look. I’ve had one of these for a month or two now, and like it very much (then again, I keep around a set of old IBM “clicky” (lexmark) keyboards for my PC hardware, too. The next thing I’d like to see is one of these without the numeric keypad – there’s a corresponding IBM one, same layout of the main keys, it’s just not so wide, making it more usable on a lap or keyboard tray.

My biggest beef, the pre-order page had pictures of caps lock keys having an LED built in. I got an email saying they removed the optimize key from the mac version and offered a choice between the white and black model. Of course, I took the white one, but they did not mention the lack of LEDs on the final release! $150 for a keyboard, and no LEDs for caps/scroll lock?! I am extremely upset. I can understand a sub $20 keyboard not having LEDs, but really. (and I've seen $15 keyboards with the lights).

Traditional sculpted keytops are curved to fit your fingertips and prevent you from moving out of home position. The symbols at the top of each key are laser-etched to combat wear over the life of the keyboard. Three USB 2.0 ports let you connect peripherals like mice and flash drives directly to the keyboard, providing easier installation and reducing clutter. Just like an Apple keyboard, the Tactile Pro's function keys now let you control screen brightness, volume, iTunes, and more. A Fn (Function) key lets you momentarily change the function keys back to their traditional duties. Anti-ghosting circuitry allows you to type as quickly as you're able without missing or additional letters and symbols. ™, €, £, ¥, and other hard-to-remember symbols are printed on the right side of the keys.

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Second, the Mac version of the Quiet Pro is ugly. I mean Fugly with a capital F. The matte silver painted body is awful. I'm not sure if it's supposed to match the aluminum on some current Macs, but it wouldn't match a Mac Pro or anything else I have in my studio. The white Tactile Pro doesn't really match, either, but at least it looks nice. The sad thing is that the PC version of the Quiet Pro, in all gloss black, is beautiful. I wish they'd kill the silver body and make them both all-black.

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The Tactile Pro makes it easy to find ™ € £ ¥ © and other hard to remember symbols - they're all printed right on the keys. Simply hold down the Option key for the bottom-right characters, or Shift-Option for the top-right characters. Laser etched keys. All those symbols are handy, but what happens when they wear off? They're laser etched - burned into the keys with a laser - so they'll never wear off.

It would be great if it was wireless and had USB 2.0 ports. It would also be nice if the price was a little cheaper. But you have to understand that this isn’t a $9.99 keyboard that you can pick up from Walmart or OfficeMax.

The Alps switches on the Tactile Pro actually feel louder and less springy than the Cherry Blue-branded switches found on the Das Keyboards, which could be good or bad depending on your environment. In either case, we should warn you that the keyboard makes a loud clacking noise that could be an irritating distraction to anyone in close proximity. That said, we love typing on the Matias Tactile Pro 3.0--aside from the satisfying noise closely resembling the sound of a typewriter, we found ourselves typing faster and with improved accuracy based on simply hearing and feeling the impact of the switch hitting the mechanism beneath our fingers. Finally, the Tactile Pro includes a feature that Matias calls Anti-Ghosting Circuitry (more commonly known as n-key rollover) that ensures that no key press goes unregistered, no matter how fast you type.

However, if you do touch type, this keyboard gives great feedback. It is noisy, but I chose this noisy version on purpose as the noise is part of the feedback for me. However, if you don't like a noisy keyboard or work in an environment with others nearby, you may want to go with the quiet version of this keyboard. I definitely am happy with my purchase.