Apple released new wired and a wireless keyboards also. They are a radical new design, super-thin, very aluminum and replace the older white Apple keyboards we are used too. The new keyboards have lost more than size as compared to Apple keyboards of the past, it has lost the Apple logo on the Command key! Now this surprises me.
The $49 wired keyboard has two USB 2.0 ports (one on each side) for printers, flash drives, iPhones, iPods and other peripherals. It also has function keys for one-touch access to a variety of Mac features such as screen brightness, volume, eject, play/pause, fast-forward and rewind, Expose, and Dashboard. Its extended layout includes document navigation controls and a numeric keypad.
The $79 Wireless keyboard is small, modeled after the MacBook keyboard and powered by three AA batteries, claiming 9 months of battery life. The Function keys' symbols are much smaller and the functions are more clearly demarcated. It lacks the number keys, like the MacBook and MacBook Pro making it quite small. Like the model it replaces, the Bluetooth KB has no USB.
Apple claims, you need an "existing keyboard and mouse for initial setup" of the BlueTooth KB, which seems odd to me. I am guessing you may have to activate BlueTooth on a new machine and make the KB discoverable? OS X in the past always found the older Bluetooth keyboards. Which one would you get?
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