Following up on yesterday’s “design that makes me happy” theme, let me briefly mention my keyboard. I’ve got one of Apple’s ulta-thin aluminum keyboards – specifically the USB version w/ numeric keypad. It’s a joy to use. It feels great, it looks great, and it doesn’t collect nearly as much dirt as a normal keyboard. I love the little green LED in the caps lock key.
The thing is, this is a $50 keyboard in a market filled with perfectly fine keyboards in the sub-$10 price range. Why spend the extra $40? Because it makes me happy. That’s good design, and the fact that it’s a cliche to point this sort of thing out when it comes to Apple products makes it no less true.