This item: Satechi Bluetooth Wireless Smart Keyboard with 4-Device Sync - Compatible with Macbook Pro, Macbook Air, iMac, Mac Pro, and iOS Devices (White (Mac) Set up a giveaway Customers also shopped for. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1. This shopping feature will continue to load items. Question about Satechi Bluetooth Wireless Smart Keypad for iMac, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, MacBook, and Mac Mini Open Question Can only type in numbers when its in 'calc' mode. The Satechi Wireless Smart Keypad has been imbued with the Apple design aesthetic. It’s the same color and shape as the Apple keyboard, but it's made from plastic instead of aluminum.
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All images can be clicked for an enlarged view. In the box The keyboard has a “brushed aluminum” surface and white keys. It matches well with my Apple keyboard. It’s not made of aluminum, though. It’s plastic with an aluminum finish. The keys have a nice “springy” feel, and they are quiet, maybe even quieter than the keys on my keyboard.
The Smart Keypad comes with a set of the two AAA batteries required for operation and a small user’s guide. Most of the manual covers pairing your keypad with your computer. Specifications • Frequency range: ISM band, 2.4GHz • Bluetooth version: 3.0 HID, Class 2 • Power supply: 2 X AAA • Connecting time: 60 sec • Sleep: 10 minutes • Range: ~30 feet • Battery life: ~6 months, based on 1 hour usage per day Physical appearance The back of the Smart Keypad is white plastic with four black rubber feet to protect your desk. There are also two slider switches and two recessed buttons.
If you click the image for a larger view, you’ll see that the leftmost slider is the on/off switch. The right slider allows you to select if you’ll be using the keypad with a Mac or PC. The bigger recessed button puts the keypad in pairing mode, and the smaller is the reset button. You’ll also see the battery compartment door at the top left of the image.
You can see the Smart Keypad has a profile that’s similar to that of the Apple Bluetooth keyboard, but with a much thicker white plastic panel underneath. The circular back side looks like the battery silo on the Apple keyboard, but the aluminum disks don’t function as the battery silo cover and the power button for the Satechi keypad. When placed at the end of my Apple keyboard, you see a size difference.
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The Apple keyboard is about 5.15″ front to back, where the Satechi keypad is about 6″. You can see in the above image that the keypad is just a touch taller than the keyboard at the back side, too. The extra length is required to accommodate the LCD display used by the calculator functions. When I just glance at the keys on the two devices, the keys on the keypad seem larger than those on the Apple keyboard. However, keys on both devices measure about 5/8″ on each side. Bluetooth pairing The Smart Keypad connects to the computer via Bluetooth. I had to enter an 8-digit code to establish the first connection.
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I had to also go through the complete pairing process each time I turned the keypad off and back on later. I was hoping it would automatically re-establish the connection so I could turn the keypad off and save the batteries, but that apparently isn’t possible. Since I don’t need to constantly use the keypad and re-connection takes much longer than entering the number would, I’ve decided to just leave the keypad on and potentially waste the battery power. The keypad sleeps after about 10 minutes, so hopefully that will conserve the batteries. It wakes quickly when the wake/ac/ce key is pressed. So far, it seems that the keypad stays connected even while the keypad and my Mac sleep, so it’s always ready for entering a quick set of numbers. There’s a battery status light on the left that will warn me when the batteries need to be changed.