Apple forgot to support aluminium keyboard

APPLE'S NICE-LOOKING aluminium keyboard shipped long before its media control keys were supported by the Mac's software.

According to Wired, Apple released a Keyboard Software Update 1.1, on Friday. The firm's web page said that punters needed to install the 32.1MB update just to use their aluminium Apple Keyboard and take advantage of the keyboard's special features.

However, no-one actually knows what the special features are and punters who were playing with the new range of Imacs in the shops before the update found that the media control keys didn't actually work.

Wired thinks that the new software might be just a keyboard mapping to work with the new F-key arrangement, as well as the media control keys, however 32.1MB is a bit hefty to do just that.

There are also questions as to why Apple sent out a keyboard without the software that enabled it to work. Maybe they assumed that Macheads would buy what they were told without noticing. µ