LMP Bluetooth Wireless Keypad for iMac/MacBook Pro/MacBook Air (WKP-1314)

I have now purchased 3 LMP Bluetooth Keypads, and frankly I must have bluetooth. However, this product seems to work from a year to two years, then does not connect properly in spite of numerous attempts, new batteries, and re-reading the LMP manual. BUT, I continue to hope, and am now waiting on my third one. I hope three times is the charm. We have two iMacs and the problem is prevalent in both. Incidentally, in trying to connect one recently, I removed the "good" one and tried to connect in place of the other. Nope! So, I tried to reconnect it to the former, and .... well, you know, it would not reconnect. (Looks like I may be buying a fourth), or maybe just purchase a non-apple bluetooth extended keyboard. Apple does not have Bluetooth Setup Assistant anymore (which helped in these situations), so unless you are willing to re-purchase every so often, don't waste your time and money on this product.I wish I could write a glowing review, but just can't.BUT HERE'S AN UPDATE:I received my 3rd purchase now, (as well as trashed the two which were not operating). It has been working and syncing flawlessly. My wife begged me to re-purchase one for her, which I have now done. I did notice that the recent purchase has some new keys which are renamed from the ones we had before (now has a "tab" and a "delete left" and a "delete right" rather than the arrow keys before. I also noticed that when searching through previews (quicklook) that the page up and page down button worked flawlessly. So to sum this up... my advice would be to try them again. I am upgrading their "stars from a two to a four.Hope this helps someone, as it seems to be the only game in town.

I've been using one on my Mac at work for 2+ years with NO issues. So I bought another for a Mac at home. It was so cool and worked so well, we needed one on all three Macs at home. So I bought two more after the first two!Within a week, the second one died. The third one made it a couple months before it croaked. The forth one died almost instantly. Same failure: it simply refuses to power up. No lights. New batteries can't help. It won't turn on. DEAD.Luckily, we purchased two of them at an Apple store so a refund was assured. Ironically, when we took them back, the Apple store reps did not recommend we replace them and did not have any stock or plan to stock them ever again. The advised against them due to similar customer returns and spotty reliability. Meanwhile, the one on my Mac at work continues to keep on ticking without a hitch (although it does like to go to sleep as previous reviewers have accurately noted).So how do I rate it? The one at work gets 4 stars. Short of a perfect 5 due to it's slightly cheaper plastic keys than the OE Apple keyboard (how hard is it to copy a great product verbatim!?).The second one gets 1 star because I can't give zero. The other two deserve 1 star as well. So averaging our results, that's, what 1.75 stars? Okay, 2 stars. I'll be generous and round up. Caveat emptor!All that said, I'm buying a 5th one today. We NEED it. What are the chances THAT one's going to be bad too? ; )

I really wish Apple would come out with their own 10-key, but until then this one works well enough. I wish I could rate it at 3.5 stars, but as it seems to be the best option out there, I went with the higher rating.I had a bit of trouble getting it to sync with my laptop initially and had to search Google for some advice (check out kristinfromny's advice here: [...].Once I followed her steps it synced fine. It will sometimes override the keyboard (the ten-key will work but the full keyboard won't), but turning blue tooth off and back on again usually does the trick. I've had it for about two months now, and the battery life seems to be pretty good. The print on the buttons is a bit more blurry than the print on the Apple keyboard; this has nothing to do with functionality, I'm just a little OCD and wish it all looked the same.Long story short -- it's not fantastic, but it does the job well enough. Until Apple comes out with their own, I'll probably stick with LMP's keypads!

First of all, I purchased this LMP for my office Windows XP Pro computer with the apple wireless keyboard. And I know this is being advertised as apple computer accessory. This is why I gave this product a 3 star.As other stated, it has a plasticky feel especially the part that stick the apple keyboard and this numeric pad together. Though I was able to paired it to my xp pro and able to use it, I'm also experiencing the sticky key effect; it will repeatedly key in a number or the enter key (could be any key on this LMP). But when I get this pad close to my bluetooth dongle, it seems to be working fine but unfortunately with my current setup, I can't position this close to the BT dongle. I also changed the battery and the same thing happened.Nice thing I like about this pad is that it gives me the ability to do ctrl-alt-del (control and alt on apple keyboard and delete key on this LMP). Also, it gives me home/end/page up & down/arrow up, down, left, & right by pressing the clear button (but no indicator when it's active or not).I will continue using this product and if things didn't work out, I will try this on one of our iMac that has apple wireless keyboard as well.Hope this helps.

This numeric addition is made for the new Mac keyboard. It cobbles together to the right side of the keyboard and, once attached, is quite secure. After a mostly easy startup connecting as a Bluetooth device, it works as if it had been there since it was made.The addition of page up and down, a forward-delete and other buttons was an unexpected and useful pleasure. The keyboard on/off switch is operated by a similar button on the side of the numeric pad, very convenient.This product would get five stars if there was a way to maintain a charge on it and the keyboard without the tedious step of frequently swapping four batteries.All in all, a great addition to the Mac at a most reasonable price.