Size, Build Quality, and Typing Feelįirst, I presume it’s sheer happenstance that the Microsoft Number Pad has the same black-on-black design as the new M1 Pro/Max MacBook Pro keyboards.
But it has taken some bending and twisting to make the Microsoft Number Pad to work inside macOS and a Windows 11 virtual machine. When I discovered Microsoft’s relatively new external Number Pad, I thought I might be able to morph the great built-in M1 Pro MacBook Pro keyboard with the functionality of a portable number pad that I could take anywhere.įor the most part, this is a great solution.
There’s nothing really “portable” about an external keyboard (perhaps the Planck EZ qualifies due to its diminutive size, but whipping an external keyboard out of your bag, no matter the size, will draw some ire from passers by). All these are excellent options for replacing the built-in MacBook Pro keyboard.īut they can’t come with you. I’ve tried others - a variety of Keychron mechanical keyboards, a Vortex ViBE, and the greatest of all 40% keyboards, the Planck EZ - in my search. I also love Microsoft’s Surface Ergonomic keyboard. I really like Apple’s older wired keyboard with keypad. I’ve zigged and zagged through the external keyboard world. With a fixed - and perhaps permanently great - 2021 MacBook Pro keyboard, the search for the ultimate keyboard has probably slowed for some. An external keyboard was basically an essential, so the search had to begin.
This was probably worse when the MacBook Pro had such a crummy keyboard. The deeper your search goes for the perfect keyboard, the worse the search gets.
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