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Brand: Microsoft
Color: Black
EAN: 0882224626996
Label: Microsoft
Manufacturer: Microsoft
Model: XSA-00001
Publisher: Microsoft
Sales Rank: 5597
Studio: Microsoft

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Product Description:
The sleek, ultra-thin comfort curve keyboard encourages natural hand and wrist positioning for unprecedented comfort and productivity.



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - nice keyboard
This keyboard is a really convenient accessory to have.
I use a Macbook pro which is rather heavy.
..I connect the same to my Sony Bravia and use the TV as a monitor and also to watch movies.
FOr that reason alone I was looking around for a wireless keyboard and mouse.
I just love the convenience of not having to get up and go to my laptop for things like forwarding and volume.
For me personally its a multi media use.
I am sure people will have lots more use for the same.
The ergonomic contours of the keyboard and mouse make it more comfortable on the hands and though I cant make out too much difference, I am sure it is helps to use it when people use it for a long time.

Worth a try.




Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Apple products are better
I got these to try out with my Mac. They work fine, but everything is just so cheap! I guess I'm spoiled by Apple products. I got these for free as part of the Amazon Vine program, so you should take that into account here. I probably would give them more of a chance to impress me if I had paid for them.


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Wanted to love this great set, but just couldn't do it...
I ordered this with a little hesitation since I do not like the feel of the extreme ergonomic keyboards where the keys are tilted almost 45 degrees. This keyboard, however, does not have such dramatic angles. They are only slightly angled and I found myself typing with ease within minutes.

The mouse, on the other hand, I did not like. I felt it was too 'flat' and did not have much of a 'hump' in the center where you can rest the center of your hand. It had an odd feel to it... it's hard to describe. I put it up next to my Logitech mouse and it was the same height. However, the angle goes down quickly to the right, giving it an odd feel.

The battery life appears to be great and they both appear to be well made. I did notice a slight lag in the keyboard response when typing. I think that is true with most wireless input devices though. As far as the mouse, I would suggest you stop by your local electronics store and lay hands on it to see if you like the feel. If so, then come back and order it here where it is usually cheaper.




Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - [Was 3.5 stars, now 3] Excellent ergonomics, some problems
Interesting, no, that I'm using the keyboard and mouse package right now to write this review? I wonder if I started typing out words it doesn't like whether they would somehow revolt, start sending "nice" instead of "terrible"?

So I've been using the mouse and keyboard for about three days now and while the experience has been mostly positive, there have been a few problems. The installation was a breeze into Vista. I didn't need any drivers and within 10 minutes, I was using both the mouse and keyboard without a problem. I did need the IntelliPoint software installed so that I could program both the mouse and keyboard.

The ergonomics of the keyboard are pretty good. It comes with two little "feet" that you can insert under special slots under the keyboard to raise either the front or the back to your liking. Or leave them off all together. I experimented with all three and found that inserting the feet under the front ends give me a better typing experience.

Programming the keyboard's several "special" keys was rather straightforward and there are quite a number of those. Keys exist for one-click printing, email program execution, open different folders (the user's Documents and Pictures, for example) and the list goes on. I don't really know how much I'll use these but they are quite convenient and like I said, setting the programming up is quite simple.

It has long been my contention that the best keyboards I have ever used with the Sun Microsystems keyboards that came with the old UltraSPARC machines and I've since judged any keyboard by that standard. The keys on the SPARC were spongy yet firmly resistant so that typing a key wasn't a chore. The keyboard in this package is close, very close. I like the softness of each key as it is pressed, which softness leads to a quiet environment. Nothing breaks my concentration than the clickety-clack of keyboard keys, especially with a fast typist. Definite big points on this.

At first I thought the mouse would be "interesting" to use seeing its shape. That was the least of my problems as it turned out. The ergonomics of the mouse took some getting used to, to be honest, but within a few hours, it became second nature. The mouse is right handed only with groves for the other, non-clicking, fingers to rest.
On the left ridge of the mouse are two buttons mapped to backwards and magnify (the magnify threw me off the first time I used it, but a nice feature is that a help screen immediately pops up explaining the magnification process and most importantly, how to get out of it--I wish they'd simply mapped it by default to "forwards" as I'm used to, however). In Vista, Flip 3D with the mouse wheel enables you to flip through the applications. Nice, but useless for me.

One thing I did find slightly irritating was that the mouse wheel had no clicking! It makes it difficult to accurately choose when and where to stop scrolling and while the (good) point has been made that no clicking makes it easier on the hands and fingers for long documents, I much rather a clicking for better control. The mouse is definitely comfortable in the hand and works well for extended computer use. Accuracy is good in general.

I ran into one issue that I'm not sure about: mouse and keyboard flakiness. The claim is that with the 2.4GHz "dongle" inserted into one of the computer's USB ports, you can use the mouse and keyboard within a 30-foot range. When I'm playing on my flight simulator program, I have to move the mouse and keyboard about four feet away but I start experiencing dropped keys and the mouse starts catching and jerking as I move it around. Very annoying.

I wondered if it had anything to do with the fact I don't have a mouse pad and use the wooden tabletop instead. It worked for my other Dell mouse which used a red laser--I don't see any lights on the underside of the mouse, by the way. I chose not to investigate further as I don't want my eyes lasered out! That said, I don't see why the keyboard started dropping keys when I moved it only about a foot or two from its normal location.

Anyway, I plan to get a mouse pad to see if it makes using the mouse better but I don't know what I'm going to do about the keyboard's errors. Perhaps I'll try and move the USB dongle from the bad of the computer where it's located now to the one of the front USB ports to move it closer to the keyboard and mouse.

If it weren't for these bouncy, jerky, dropped keys problem, it would be a five-star review. As it is, I'm afraid I'm going to give it a three-and-a-half stars because of the annoyance factor--a four-star if I'm being honest, but it's my review and I'm slightly put out. Just saying.

*Update: I just found out the reason why my mouse jerks and hangs. Incredibly, installing and using the IntelliPoint software with the mouse causes problems and the fix? Well, the fix is to uninstall both the mouse drivers and the IntelliPoint software and then, get this: go into your registry and obliterate any traces of the mouse by deleting a million and one reg keys. Ah, that's the Microsoft I know and love. Demoting to 3 stars from 3.5!

*Update 2: The keyboard is now having the same problems with dropped keys and such. Will it never end? I'm going back to using my wired keyboard and mouse.


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Try it before you buy it...
I'm a software engineer so I use a keyboard and mouse all day and I probably use keys that the typical user doesn't. I'd have to say over all that I don't intend to replace my current keyboard and mouse with this setup. I can tolerate the ergonomics of the keyboard and I like that it's quiet; however the space bar make an annoying click that the other keys don't. I absolutely hate what they did to the function keys and the escape key. Instead of being normal keys, they've turned them into small soft like buttons as if they are not important. If you develop software then you probably use the function keys all the time in Visual Studio or the debugger or IDE you use. Trying to find the function keys without looking at the keyboard is impossible. I also don't like the plastic frame that goes around the entire keyboard, it looks like I forgot to take the keyboard out of it's plastic shipping container or something. I'm using it for writing this review and I'm constantly getting double keys inserted, which I'm certain is due to the keyboard. If you don't tilt the keyboard up using the included "peg" feet then the back of the keyboard tilts up when you put you palms on the palm rest. I will say that the palm rest is a nice rubberize plastic material.

Now lets move to the mouse. While the keyboard is silent, the mouse is ridiculously loud when you click the right or left button. People in the cubicles around you will know about every click you do. Yet the mouse wheel has no click or any sort of tactical feedback (I hate a free spinning mouse wheel). The shape is okay, but it's unacceptable for gaming and I prefer the normal mouse shape to this right-hand only contraption. I'd also prefer that the mouse had a rechargeable battery with a charging station like my old Logitech wireless desktop has. I'd have to say that my Logitech wireless desktop from 5 years ago is a better product all around then this.

Keyboards and mice are very subjective things to review so I'd highly recommend that you try this setup out at a local store before committing. The key layout is different and the keyboard and mouse just seem like they were designed by two different teams. If you're big on ergonomics and don't know what the function keys are for, then you might like this keyboard/mouse. If you're a gamer or a developer than I'm going to guess that you won't be happy with it. In the end I'll be sticking with my Logitech G15 keyboard, it's not perfect either but it's light years beyond this MS keyboard setup.

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