- RF Keyboard & Optical Mouse
- Scissors-Plunger Technology
- 118 Keys
- Optical Sensing Technology
1 Good Design. Mediocre Implementation
Disclaimer: I just bought the thing last night. No long term experience. But I spent over an hour comparing 40 keyboards before buying and have tested at home.
-- GOOD --
* Design. I like the sleek rounded look to the keyboard. On the back are legs that can swing out to adjust the level if you're going to be using it on a desk.
* Keypress. This was a major reason for me buying the keyboard. The keys benefit from laptop technology. They are firm, but don't have much travel so they feel more responsive - less typing effort.
* RF frequency means that the thing doesn't cut out if you lose line of sight, but the responsiveness tapers quickly at about 10
ft from the reciever. I think this distance should have been longer, but you need to be reasonably close to your monitor anyway.
* Reciever takes no batteries (Keyboard and Mouse do, obviously)
* Mouse is very precise.
* Hotkeys, if you load a driver. One is user-assignable. Personally I don't use 'em, but they're there for your surfing pleasure.
-- BAD --
* Another reviewer said that the mouse eats batteries like it's rodent counterpart goes through a block of cheeze. This is probably because it doesn't havea a low power mode. I have a wired optical mouse that when I don't move it, dims its light. I bet this would save batteries. Not an issue for me since I have rechargeables.
* The mouse flashes alot through the side. It's distracting.
* The unit I bought is defective: the keyboard battery contacts are loose. But I should have expected that: I bought an open-box unit to save myself 2 bucks.
2 Preliminary review
I have been looking for the perfect keyboard for months and I think I have found it. I loved the old IBM keyboard and its modern copies like Avant Prime and PCKeyboard Customizer for the firm keystroke feel, but didn't like the clickety-clack noise (times have changed). I have checked all of the modern offers and I believe this is the one closest in feel to the old IBM, firm and positive but without any noise at all. Better than the best of the rest (MS Elite for Bluetooth) and much better than all the others. The mouse is a basic one and it's OK, but you can't have it all.
