This RGB Backlit Wired Aluminum Tenkeyless Keyboard from Matias is built with an aluminum frame and designed for Mac systems. Aside from standard keys, minus the number pad of course, it also has RGB backlighting with a color control dial located at the top edge of the keyboard for adjustments. It even has a USB 2.0 Type-A port with which you can use to plug in a thumb drive or other peripherals.
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This keyboard replaces a full-sized Matias backlit RGB keyboard for Mac that had the problem with random key repeats that others have reported with a couple of Matias models. Turning off key-repeat in System Prefs helped some but didn't eliminate the problem. I've only been using this one for a few hours but it seems solid so far and is just what I want: a backlit keyboard with full-sized arrow keys, and the Control key as the last key on the lower left, rather than a Function key, as one finds on too many keyboards. Given that it has dark keys on space grey, the backlighting is very useful.
I bought this keyboard to replace an old Kensington SlimType Keyboard for Mac, which died. In the interim, I'd been using an Apple Aluminum USB keyboard, which I really like, but there's not really room for it and my mouse in the keyboard drawer of my desk. So the Matias Tenkeyless seemed like a perfect compromise. Plus it is backlit! The design of the Matias keyboard in impeccable, borrowed a lot directly from the Apple Keyboard; nice metal base, quality printing on the keys, etc. The controls for brightness and color of the backlight are very intuitive. The problems are in the execution. The key springs seem softer than the Apple or Kensington keyboard, and the sound that results from typing is therefore much louder. The backlight is great, but there's more light leaking from around the keys than coming through the keycaps. The letter keys are fine, it's from under the function keys and larger keys like shift, caps lock and return where the light pours out. To be fair, when I look directly down at the keys, there's no light leak, but when I sit one forearm's length back from the keyboard, the space under those keys is the brightest spots visible. For example, it's hard to tell if the caps lock is on because of all the light leaking from under it.