Apple Shipped New Keyboards Without Software

It looks like Apple shipped it's oh-so-thin new aluminum keyboard before the new media control keys were actually supported by the Mac. On Friday the company released Keyboard Software Update 1.1, which offers the typically cryptic description "Install this software to use your aluminum Apple Keyboard and take advantage of the special features." Macworld reader David_CGC says:

I tried out the new iMacs (and iLife) at the Apple Store yesterday, and noticed that the media control keys didn't actually work, and Exposé was still set to the normal F8-F12 keys.

Digging around inside the whopping 32.1 MB download reveals support for 18 languages but no clues as to the "special features". Our guess is that this just rearranges the keyboard mapping to work with the new F-key arrangement, as well as those new media control keys. Homework assignment: If any of you have the new keyboard, let us know how those media keys work. Do they control movies and music (we assume so) and what happens when iTunes is in the background? Go know.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/08/apple-shipped-n.html