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Summary: Great keyboard
Review: Bought this keyboard at a great price and it is has great features like the hotkeys and I really like the feel of the buttons as you type.
These remind me of those older IBM ones where you really could feel and here that nice click.
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Summary: Great keyboard, but prepare for a learning curve.
Review: Bought this keyboard because I loved the old Internet Keyboard Pro, but it was worn out and showing it's wear, and since Microsoft pulled that model off the market, I went with this one.The media buttons on top are located at all the right places and are clearly marked. I love the Delete 'bar', which is so much better because I don't use the Insert command enough so that it becomes an annoyance when I overtype in a document. The only problems I have with the keyboard is that it takes awhile to get used to the switching of the F1-F12 keys. Light the F-Lock key above Num Lock, and you get your regular functions with it, but if they're off, you have to adjust to a different way of using them. The F-Lock light is turned off when I boot, so it's jarring when a save dialouge comes up for F11 instead of the browser going to full-screen. Support for Insert and Scroll Lock is there for the few people that use it on the print screen and pause/break keys, but make sure the light is on beforehand, hopefully Microsoft allows you a "FLock key lit on reboot" option in their next keyboard software release. The other thing is F1-F12 are in four three-key groups instead of thre four-key groups. Jarred me a little, I'm sure to get used to it soon enough, but if you're an expert, you may want to look somewhere else if the F keys are the way you always work in programs. Also, Home and End are side by side, with Page Up and Page Down vertical below them, and the keys surround the Delete bar. May take awhile to get used to End above Page Up, And Home off to the side. You get used to it though, so it's nothing bad for me. All in all, another fine piece of Microsoft hardware. If you can handle relearning a new way to work with function keys and Insert, and a new way to type off the QWERTY and number pad areas, this is a great keyboard for you. If you're a power user though, just get a keyboard with the usual 104 layout.
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Summary: Did not like proprietary layout
Review: I could not get use to the proprietary layout of the Delete, Home, End, Insert, Page Up, and Page Down keys. I do not like the way the function keys are setup nor do I like having to use the F Lock button. If you can get over these issues, then it might work well for you. If you have to use standard layout keyboards as well as this keyboard, then the two different layouts may cause you grief.
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Summary: What do you mean PS2 won't convert to USB?
Review: I love this keyboard. I love its shortcuts and its looks and its size. I love my new Gateway laptop, too, but I found out too late that the laptop lacks a PS2 port. People look at you funny when you go in looking for a PS2 to USB converter and laugh when you ask why. I tearfully gave this one away and got the wireless desktop after making certain its USB.
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Summary: Keys stick!!
Review: If you play fps games and need to hold down keys for long periods of time, don't get this keyboard! I essentially can no longer play CS because any time I hold a key down with any amount of force, it seems to stick and continue moving me even after I release the key. Maybe for office purposes this is a decent keyboard, but for gaming, it's just bad.
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Summary: Average Keyboard
Review: Im using this product to type this maeesage. Well, I must say Im dissapointed with the product. The buttons dont require much force to push down. (which is nice) But the keys do NOT go down smoothly. I have never mistreated this keyboard.... so I know its not that. I bought it around 5 to 6 months ago. And in the last 2 months the problem began to occur. If some of the keys arent pressed down EXACTLY strait, the key will rub on the cheap platic shaft that its on. :( It makes it VERY irritating sometimes. Infact while typing this message, it happened 4 or 5 times. Im getting a Logitech next.
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Summary: Another awesome product
Review: Just loaded the software, plugged it in, great. All functions and keys work with no adustments required. One touch email and Internet, mute, and more. The basic keyboard does work with Redhat Linux, and it would be interesting to see a hack to use the extended keyboard functions with that OS as well.
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Summary: Be warned - Delete Key!
Review: My boss bought this keyboard for me at work (I am a software engineer), and the keyboard is fine...except for 1 major problem...the BIG DELETE KEY! What were Microsoft thinking!? I have been using the insert key for over a decade, and Microsoft in their wisdom decide to make the Delete key bigger and remove the Insert key. The F Lock key is a pain also, but there is registry fixes to disable this. So, thanks to this keyboard I have now deleted several hundred lines of code instead of pasting them!
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Summary: F the F Lock
Review: One good thing: they FINALLY made it possible to disable the most useless key on the keyboard, the CapsLock. A stupid key that needs to be exiled to a remote part of the keyboard, if not eliminated altogether. Fortunately, it is now possible to disable this key. A proper fix simply would have moved it. But what the F is this F Lock key? Why is the default position 'OFF'? Why is there no way, (other than a registry fix) to change the default position of this key? Is MS once again going stupid on us? MS also thinks that we are all idiots, and that we delete more than we write. So they enlarged the delete key. Dumb idea. Return the insert key to where it belongs. My games need it there. And you know... the Start, and Menu key shouldn't be down where one might accidently press it while typing other stuff. More irritating than the Caps Lock. D+ MS. You can do better work.
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Summary: F the F Lock
Review: One good thing: they FINALLY made it possible to disable the most useless key on the keyboard, the CapsLock. A stupid key that needs to be exiled to a remote part of the keyboard, if not eliminated altogether. Fortunately, it is now possible to disable this key. A proper fix simply would have moved it. But what the F is this F Lock key? Why is the default position 'OFF'? Why is there no way, (other than a registry fix) to change the default position of this key? Is MS once again going stupid on us? MS also thinks that we are all idiots, and that we delete more than we write. So they enlarged the delete key. Dumb idea. Return the insert key to where it belongs. My games need it there. And you know... the Start, and Menu key shouldn't be down where one might accidently press it while typing other stuff. More irritating than the Caps Lock. D+ MS. You can do better work.
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