| | 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!
| | Great keyboard, but prepare for a learning curve. |
| | 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.
| | | 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.
| | 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.
| | Microsoft: "Let's annoy people that buy our keyboard" |
| | The first thing you might notice about this is that the home/end/delete/pageup/page down keys, along with Print Screen and Insert, are stragely located. The larger delete key can be nice, and the other keys are easy to get used to. What you won't realize from the picture: 1) the space bar is exceptionally noisy if you hit it with your right thumb (which I almost exclusively do). 2) The dreaded F key. Microsoft decided to add functionality to the f-keys by letting them operate as typical, F1-F12 keys, or as buttons to perform specific tasks (spell check, save, print, etc). You choose which the buttons operate as with the F lock key. F-lock on, they operate as F1-F12 like normal. F-lock off, they don't do anything useful. The f-lock key defaults off and often switches back to off for no reason. Wait -- it's very probable there is a reason for this: Microsoft hates us all.
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