When I bought my Mac Mini, I bought it without buying a keyboard for it. Not long after purchasing the Mini, my older iMac died. I ended up trashing the iMac, as I couldn't repair it (was unwilling to pump anymore money into it and it was over 10 years old. Prior to it dying, I was using it as a monitor for my iMac and other systems (using Target Display Mode).
With the iMac gone, I still had the Magic Mouse and the keyboard that came with the iMac. What I hate about the keyboard is that it eats batteries. As well, I like full sized keyboards. So, I thought I'd buy a nice keyboard for the Mini.
I purchased the Royal Kludge S98, mainly because it was a full sized keyboard (or nearly so), it could be used with other computers (it has 3 BT profiles), it's wireless, and it was a mechanical keyboard -- I've never owned a mechanical keyboard.
I've mixed feelings. I like the keyboard a lot, but it doesn't have software for Macs. It's software is Windows-only. I would've liked to use the software's macro configurations. As well, it doesn't have labeled Mac buttons (command and option buttons).
The specific version I bought was the Linear Viridian switch version in turquoise green.
I might try to buy Mac-specific keys for it, as the keys can be swapped out. Maybe I'll get those two keys in red.
I like the keyboard screen in the upper right corner. I like that I've the option for 2.4 GHz connectivity, BT, or USB wired connectivity.
I also love the lighting (it's RGB). It also has a beefy battery - I can get a lot of use out of it, on one charge, if I disable the keyboard backlights.
I did notice one hiccup with the Mac Mini last week where I had the keyboard linked to it via bluetooth - I'd logged out of the Mac and came back later to do some work, but the keyboard wouldn't let me type out the password properly. I noticed that it kept hanging on the 2nd character. I had another BT keyboard handy and tried to log in with it and it was doing the same thing. I thought it was strange. I ended up doing a hard reboot (I hadn't thought of SSH'ing into the Mini to do a restart - I could've done that). The system recovered and let me access it while using the S98. I'm not sure if it was a keyboard-related issue but I've been using the Mac 2+ years and nothing like that has every occurred until I started using the S98. I'll keep a watch to see if this occurs again.
UPDATE (2/5/2025): Well I had the keyboard issue again, today. Again, I don't think it's an actual keyboard issue, as I tried two different keyboards and both were doing the sme thing. This go-around, it was the 6th character tht wasn't rendering on the first keypress. After experimenting, I was able to press the key for the 6th character a second time to get it to register...doing that, I was able to log in successfully. After I logged in, I typed in Terminal to see if I was having that same issue across my password characters - it rendered fine. I then logged out and tried to log back in - I was able to successfully log in (I did this 3 times, successfully, to test). I searched for some tips and most articles I saw suggested that there was a hardware keyboard issue, which is't the case here since I'm using two different keyboards that experience the same exact issue. I also used Disk Utility to do a disk repair - there were no errors to repair. I think there's a bug in the latest OS update (the latest OS update was applied a few days ago). This didn't start occurring until after that OS update was applied.
UPDATE 2 (2/7/2025): It happened again, just now. It's definitely not a hardware issue, as I used my Mac wireless keyboard this time, too - I used all three keyboards and the issue still occurred. As well, two characters weren't being recognized this time - characters 6 and 7. This is so odd.
I'll report any issues with the keyboard, but I'm enjoying it thus far.
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