Hardware Pacers has posted a review on the Microsoft Wireless Desktop Comfort Edition. Here is a snippet:
"In Microsoft's long keyboard history, they have come up with the most comfortable keyboards that feature curved designs. Today with the new Microsoft Wireless Desktop Comfort Edition, Microsoft brings a completely new meaning to comfort. This new comfort feature yet again includes a curved design and a new soft wrist pad, instead of the old plastic one. In addition to comfort, the keyboard sets it self with a great mouse that features side scrolling. With all these new features, we will see in today's review how Microsoft developed a perfect keyboard set yet again."
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News source: Hardware Pacers
"In Microsoft's long keyboard history, they have come up with the most comfortable keyboards that feature curved designs. Today with the new Microsoft Wireless Desktop Comfort Edition, Microsoft brings a completely new meaning to comfort. This new comfort feature yet again includes a curved design and a new soft wrist pad, instead of the old plastic one. In addition to comfort, the keyboard sets it self with a great mouse that features side scrolling. With all these new features, we will see in today's review how Microsoft developed a perfect keyboard set yet again."
View: Microsoft Wireless Desktop Comfort Edition Review Screenshot: >> Click here << News source: Hardware Pacers
The Microsoft Wireless Desktop Elite is cushioned. I'm typing on it right now at work.
I went ahead and got another wireless natural multimedia keyboard which has served me happily for a while...
I can't give up my fwd/back buttons, and it looks like this one doesn't have it. Yeah, I know
it's on the keyboard, but I'm lefthanded and once again, MS (or logitech for that matter),
leaves us "lefties" out in the cold.
i re-configured intellitype and intellipoint to reflect the new devices, but there's no diff that i can tell from having done so.
one of the reasons i bought the set is because the symmetrical mouse is of import to me, since i'm left handed. the mouse feels just super and is much nicer to handle than it's predecessor (a wireless optical 1.0). the wheel in particular is just buttery now. i'll have to get used to not having the bump-bump-bump feedback like the old ones -- but i think i'll manage.
about the KB itself: i've played around with the zoom a little and am generally very positive about it. it worked without a hitch in firefox (increasing and decreasing text and pictures), eudora (mostly just text size -- i didn't have any styled email handy to look at) and illustrator CS (it even does a center-on-focus zoom! most excellent) and indesign CS (doesn't do a center on focus zoom in this app. bummer.)
my only caveat about the zoom and the KB in general is that as a southpaw, it kinda-sorta throws of the spacing of mouse and keyboard i'm used to. my mouse is now about two inches further to the left and if you're used to a pretty strict positioning of your mouse and keyboard (and mine really hasn't changed in about 5-6 years), it might be a bit unsettling at first, but i suspect this won't matter at all to me in 1-2 weeks. obviously if the zoom was over on the right side, it would be optimal for me, but this is a total non-issue for 90% of all of humanity.
as for the slightly beveled look and feel of the keys: loving it.
i could never get myself used to a proper MS natural KB and hate working on one, even for a little bit. so i was kinda worried that the slight curve of the comfort KB would throw my typing off considerably, but so far, this is is not the case. since i'm not a natural touch-typist (i mostly type with 4 fingers and a thumb on the space bar), i would frequently fat-finger a lot of keys in the center of the board -- but with the center keys now MUCH wider (g,h,b and n are almost 'doublewide'), i found that i was making less typos and typing much faster. i'm really thrilled with this -- the key spacing on the main part of the board is just brilliant, imo.
still hate the squashed home/end/delete/pg up/pg down section, though.
the padded wristwrest is nice, but i would have preferred it to be detachable. no biggie though. the look and feel of the keyboard is very nice -- the keys are a shiny black (versus the dull textured black of my previous KB) and 'my favorites section' up on top is surround by a nice shiny piece of plastic. the whole style of the board reminds me a lot of the 'royale' style for XP (if it was in silver/black, that is) -- a sort of shiny/polished look.
anyway, those are my first impressions.
Last edited by 29752 on 14 Sep 2004 - 01:54
That's the part I love! Once I got use to it I don't accidently hit the page up key anymore. It just makes more sense the way they are doing it now.
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