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Microsoft Natural Keyboard Elite 2.0

Microsoft Natural Keyboard Elite 2.0

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Non-alpha keys re(dis)organised, as well as shrunken
Review: While I do not personally own one of these myself, I have used it in a lab at my school. When available, I almost always choose the machine with the Natural(tm) keyboard, as it truly does make it easier to type, and less stressful not only on hand and wrist but on the shoulders, too.

However, as some have noted, the movement keys (arrows, home, end, pg up/dn, ins, del) are rather small compared to the average straight keyboard, and they're all reorganised, too. Apparently this has been fixed in more recent editions of the board, but on this one, the Insert, &c. block have been ordered into three rows of two, rather than two of three, and this can make finding the delete key by touch, for example, a little difficult. Not only have the arrows been moved into a cruciform arrangement, but they're also about half the size of the rest of the keys, which again makes them hard to find.

However, the keyboard as a whole is a responsive, pain-reducing, joy to use. Now if only their software were so good. . .

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Not worth it...
Review: While the layout is ok, the buttons are too small. And who brilliant thought of rearranging 'Insert', 'Delete', and arrow buttons? I very quickly got sick of always hitting the wrong button. Microsoft should have kept the buttons together in the same place in familiar clusters. The previous version of Natural keyboard was much better, why did they mess with it?


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