SERPHIUM  Well I just got the Icekey and I'm really growing to like the keyboard, but the driver is atrocious.

The only benefit is that you can use the volume and eject keys. I don't know why they don't work out of the box.

After installation everything seemed to work fine for a while. The volume properly adjusted. However, sometimes I'd notice the caps/num lock light's flash briefly. No adverse affects, just bizzare.

The real pain is this:

One day while listening to music (and touching nothing) the volume suddenly maxes out and keeps blipping (that volume change noise, despite having it turned off in the preferences) and it continues to make the noise and show the volume adjustment overlay until I press one of the volume keys. This has happened multiple times since. It's even happned about 3 times while I was sleeping. I come to the computer in the morning to hear "blip blip blip blip" and see the overlay when I turn on the monitor. Who knows how many hours it was doing this.

I should explain I'm running 10.4.10 (current on updates) and I've never had this problem previous to the driver installation and I installed nothing else in quite some time. So after having it with the driver I removed it and everything's been fine since.

Truly, an obnoxious driver that I would recommend avoiding. Just put your volume control on the menu bar. It's not the same but it's better than having to put up with this driver.   (Version 1.1)

STARBRO  Using the volume control keys on the ICEKey will cause the expand/collapse triangle to become unresponsive in many apps. I have tested this to be the case in iPhoto, iTunes, Safari, and Mail.

After adjusting the volume from the ICEKey, you may click the triangle twice at most before it becomes unresponsive. You then have to click something else before you can click the triangle again. Normally, you can click the triangle consecutively as many times as you want to expand/collapse a tree.

Here's an example:

1) In Safari, open your bookmarks.

2) Adjust the system volume using the ICEKey.

3) Click on the triangle next to a bookmarks folder to expand the folder tree.

4) Click it a second time to collapse the tree.

5) Now click it a third time... it will not respond because the ICEKey drivers are now interfering.

6) Click somewhere else, then go back and click the triangle. It should be responsive again for two more clicks, then become unresponsive again.

If you have an MacBook or MacBook Pro, restart your system, but this time use the volume adjust keys on the MacBook's keyboard (F4/F5), not the ICEKey. Then click on the triangle next to the Safari Bookmarks folder. You should be able to click it consecutively as often as you want. Now adjust the volume using the ICEKey and click on the triangle. Boom.... unresponsive again after two clicks.

So as you can see, this problem only occurs if you use the ICEKey's volume control keys at least once after your system is booted. Only a system restart will revert the triangle responsiveness back to normal. And it will continue to work normally as long as you avoid using the ICEKey's volume control keys.

Macally needs to fix this. Until then, I would not recommend installing these drivers.  (Version 1.1)

TIYBERIUS  I've read about complaints about the poor driver quality for this keyboard, and I'd have to say they I've had a HORRIBLE experience with the volume keys and the eject button.

While this is a nice keyboard with short travel (although it does feel a bit cheap), the drivers are in fact TERRIBLE. I put my comptuer to sleep and wake it up again, and the volume keys and eject button don't work.

Come on, Macally, you can do better than that.  (Version 1.1)

FRANK BACKLUND  When I use Macally ICEKey I canīt run fsck on my computer, so I have to go back to my Apple keyboard.  (Version 1.0b3)