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Legendary Feel & Speed of Alps mechanical keyswitches.
Mac users who crave the feel of Apple’s legendary Extended and Extended II keyboards will love the Tactile Pro. Unlike other keyboards made today, each key is built on an individual Alps Mechanical Switch. They feel better, and you’ll type faster.

Version 3 — modern new look and features.
This Tactile Pro model has been completely redesigned to offer the best features of the original Tactile Pro, but with much better fit & finish, and incredible attention to detail.

The layout is the same comfortable and familiar one (with Eject and Volume keys) but the case enclosure is completely new — much stronger than before, and much more resistant to crumbs and dust.

™ € £ ¥ © are easy to find.
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 won’t. They’re laser etched — burned into the keys with a laser — so they’ll never wear off.

Sculpted keytops.
The latest trend in keyboards is to have very flat & wide keys, with little or no space between them. You see this a lot on laptops and netbooks. While they look great, they can also be a little tricky to type on. The flatness makes it very easy to slide out of home row and lose your bearings.

The Tactile Pro bucks this trend. It has traditional sculpted keytops, curved to fit your fingertips, and keep you from sliding out of home position.

3-port Hi-Speed USB 2.0 hub.
For quickly attaching USB peripherals, nothing beats the convenience of an in-keyboard USB hub. No more reaching through the tangle of wires behind your computer to download photos from your digital camera. Just plug it into the keyboard and you’re ready to go. Works great with MP3 players, keyring hard drives, joysticks, and mice too. It won’t charge your iPod/iPhone, but for syncing it’s perfect.

No ghost in this machine.
Most keyboards allow only a certain number of keys to be pressed at once, and often cannot keep up with very fast typists. The result is called ghosting — letters missing from what you actually typed, or additional letters that you didn’t type.

The Tactile Pro has special Anti-Ghosting Circuitry (also called n-key rollover) to eliminate these problems. You can type as fast as you’re able; the Tactile Pro will keep up.

Support for PC users.
The Tactile Pro is a Mac keyboard, but that doesn’t mean you can’t plug it into a PC and use it — You can. We even offer a downloadable driver to change the Command and Option keys into Alt and Windows keys.