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As you can see it's the ISO-DE version.
Below is a pic with the mac keys. They look ok but not great (thinner letters compared to the rest, spelled out "alt option" instead of "⌥ option" and of course @ and € in the wong places etc. and the umlauts also look thinner ..considering this is quite an expensive keyboard it's a bit meh but I will probably forget about it in a week. First world poblems.
The PBT caps are absolutely lovely. Makes me wonder why a 3K MacBook Pro doesn't come with nice keycaps like that.
I opted for MX Speed Silvers and they feel great and sound great, in fact the online key that is really loud and thumpy is the space bar, if somebody can point me in the direction of some MX / spacebar specific dampening mods or something I'd appreciate it :-)
I never was a mechanical keaboard guru but indeed am patting myself on the back for not getting another chicklet but this insead. Feels a lot nicer and healthier indeed.
The Vortex TAB 75 is very nice overall - a massive upgrade to the old (rubber dome) Dell I had been using as an external keyboard the past week.
Plastic case but I like that. Think it's really ok for keyboards to not be metal. Plastic is warmer to the touch.
It' a nice "chunky" thing - and heavier than I'd have thought (820g with batteries!).
The colours look exactly like in the pictures.
Takes two AAA's for the Bluetooth. Setting this up took 30 seconds, works fine with a MacBook Pro alongside a magic trackpad.
The mac does check whether it's an ISO keyboad, and you then switch the board itself to apple-mode (Pn + W). This is a bit quirky though as it doesn't send actual F1-F12 commands (if somebody needs this I'll leave this reddit link here - Vortex Tab 75 setup for macos).
Without the mods from that link applied it sends the Fn-variants of the F-keys (without the need of a modifier), so you press F1 for brightness down, F2 for brightness up etc. - which is all I need so I'm happy.
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