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Logitech Keyboard Elite Black (USB/PS/2)

Logitech Keyboard Elite Black (USB/PS/2)

List Price: $39.99
Your Price: $28.89
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: AWESOME KEYBOARD
Review: This keyboard is awesome, the most amazing thing that happened is I ordered this keyboard two days ago and it came yesterday, with free shipping!! I am still amazed at this. This is the best experience with Amazon i had so far. The keyboard works great, it can be used on ps/2 or usb so that's on of the really good things about it. There's a lot of buttons for quick access of stuff. This keyboard is great. It works great and it's much easier to type with less strain on your hands. With my old one, my hand would get tired easily. As logitech says that it feels good in your hands, it actually does. I would recommend this keyboard to anyone.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Most Useful Keyboard. . .Ever!!
Review: This was my very first Logictech Product and i would have to say that they have made a believer out of me. From the time i plugged it in and installed the software almost everything was customizable.

The best feature of the keyboard would have to be the labelings of some of the keys. It helps people who don't remember certain key combinations such as Control+C or Control+P. I found this to be very helpful.

Music lovers would also love this keyboard for its addition of the volume wheel on top. There is almost nothing to complain about keyboard other than maybe the positioning of the naviwheel. I would rather have it positioned on the right side of the keyboard to replace the mouse wheel.

Pros:
Great set of customizable keys.
Labels of certain keys for shortcuts.
Very comfortable with the removable wrist extension.

Cons:
Not every key can be customized to your liking.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Nice, but not perfect
Review: When I purchased the keyboard, I was most impressed by the COOL feeling that the keys produced when pressed. Soft, but not too soft, quiet, but with a discete noise feedback that's hard to describe.

However, after 4-5 months of use, the magic disappeared. Now the keys are simply too soft, and are not that quiet at all. Rather, they sound pretty much like on any other used dirt cheap keyboard.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great keyboard with helpful features
Review: Whether you are a hardcore computer gamer or just use it for word processing and Email, you'll love this keyboard. The keys are whisper quiet and the iTouch (shortcut) buttons are very helpful. I don't need to scroll-knob because I already have on on my mouse, so I use it to toggle through open programs. It's very helpful. Additionally, it has shortcut buttons for your Email application, Instant Messenger progran, media application, and more, all of which you can customize.

Okay, so iTouch function keys are unneeded, but so what? You can easily disable them. And who knows... You may like them.

Good luck!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Logitech Rules!
Review: With the exception of it crashing on me from time to time with XP (I'm not sure if it's a user error), I love it! Anything by Logitech, I can't resist but use them for any of my peripherals. I love the one-touch buttons you can customize to your liking. However, I haven't made the "music" button work. That REALLY kills my system. But, off limits to that button, everything works wonderful! It's like driving a stick-shift on your computer!! (There's a scroll wheel for scrolling through browser, documents, etc.) Awesome!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Up-to-date keyboard for up-to-date use!
Review: You want to know what kind of keyboard is that? Read this.
When I unpacked my Elite keyboard I understood that the picture I had looked at before I placed the order didn't give me that feeling you get when it's on the desk in front of you. My God, it's like a spaceship console! Its low-profile hi-tech design is a great match to my mighty brand-new laptop and the optical mouse which comes with the keyboard in a special offer makes it a full great-looking set. However my first thought was: "I'm not gonna use a half of those 50 extra buttons, though they look very cool." But you know what? I do use ALL of them! I assigned functions I needed to them and enjoy all those shortcut keys. "E-mail" key - for my Yahoo mailbox, "Shopping" - for Amazon.com, "Search" - for Google etc. It has also got some Windows XP shortcuts on F1-F12 keys, which are really handy (like "My computer," "My documents," "Save," "Undo" etc.). And there are multimedia controls on the top, as you can see on the picture, but this nice-looking dial wheel turned out to be a stupid thing: you would expect it lets you change the sound level quickly, making a dozen clicks with a single rotating move. But the problem is that for some reason it's got a VERY slow response, so you can make 20 clicks within a second, but the volume will decrease only by one point at a second, so you have to wait for 20 seconds till it comes to the level you need. But the major problem with it is that it memorizes the consecution of the dial moves, so it will take you 2 seconds to rotate it back and forth making a hundred clicks and it will take you forever to wait while each click will take effect and there is NO WAY to stop it. It can drive you really mad. So if you use it you should be very careful. But I do not use it at all thanks to that iNav wheel, which can perform this and many other functions without any problem. I didn't even know about it when I ordered the keyboard and now I can say that it's the best feature Logitech could think of! This iNav is not only good for volume control, but you can also scroll with it like you do with the mouse and do many other things. You can customize its function by just pressing it and choosing what you need from a pop-up menu. Believe me guys, it's cool. Besides, near this iNav wheel, there's a "Back" button which you need so often when surfing the Internet, and a "Go" button which brings you directly to the web address bar. Well, it's not a manual, so you'll figure out all the other buttons yourself. This keyboard is really good to use.
What are the problems with it? Basically, there're none. I can only add that the keys on the keyboard are somewhat smaller than usual, even comparing to my laptop keys and it feels a bit strange in the beginning, but you get used to it. It's also a bit loud, I mean the keys click louder than in the keyboards I used before, but that's not a big deal either. So the only real CON is that volume dial. But as I said - just use iNav instead.
Overall, this keyboard might be a bit expensive, but it's definitely worth it, especially after a [$] rebate for a mouse + keyboard set.
By the way the mouse is great too: nothing extra - just simple, regular ergonomic mouse, VERY accurate and very convenient to use. Works on any usual surface. Not that good on a naked lap or arm, but this is not what you use as a surface that often, really :) And it is also nice-looking: I don't mean only this black and silver casing (the same as the keyboard), but it's got transparent sides and bottom which lets it glow with red! Ahh..! I like it!


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