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Get one-touch access to the media, programs, and files you use most and zoom in for a closer look at documents and Web sites.
Zoom - Get a closer look—zoom in quickly and accurately with the intuitive Zoom feature. Customizable Hot Keys - Perform common tasks, like opening documents and replying to e-mail, with the touch of a button.
"My Favorites" Hot Keys - Customize these 5 keys to instantly bring up the photos, folders, files, and Web pages you use most—simply push and hold to set.
Multimedia Center - With the touch of a button you can easily access your favorite music, video clips, and media programs.
Enhanced F-Key Functionality - Open documents, reply to e-mail, toggle between standard and enhanced F-key commands, and more—with the touch of a button.
Additional Features:
Detachable Palm Rest Sleep and Log Off Hot Keys Spill Resistant 3 Year Warranty
kimme said: Thank you bought one for my son. question is this good for online gaming? I was on a budget a few years back and bought this keyboard for gaming. Everything about it was great, the keys, the feel and all... except I couldn't hold CAPSLOCK and use a bunch of keys at the same time, so I had to settle for the SHIFT button. It was one of the larger buttons to the left that I used for WALKING in Counter-Strike... I think it was CAPSLOCK.
Anyway, I had to change the walk button b/c when I held down the one I had binded, I couldn't push too many keys at the same time. If I tried to, not all keys would command the game, if that makes any sense.
Just keep an eye on that... you may have to alter your binds, but otherwise I was able to deal with it.
This isn't considered a "media center" keyboard, is it? I'm looking for a keyboard that has a mouse thumbstick or equivelant built inti it so I can navigate from my couch but this doesn't look like it has one.
thrawnis
New Member
posted: Jul. 3, 2009 @ 8:55p
No, this does not have a mouse pointer like device.
This one is selling in Newegg for $14.99 + shipping Not a very Hot deal
zdude
Member
posted: Jul. 4, 2009 @ 8:43a
TheFinalProphecy said: This isn't considered a "media center" keyboard, is it? I'm looking for a keyboard that has a mouse thumbstick or equivelant built inti it so I can navigate from my couch but this doesn't look like it has one. For controlling my HTPC, I use one of these BTC units. http://www.geektonic.com/2009/02/htpc-wireless-keyboard-roundup-...
It's a wireless RF keyboard with a mini "joystick" to use instead of a mouse. I don't think this joystick would work too good for gaming though, just as an alternative to having to hold a mouse while sitting on the couch (a bit slower alternative to a mouse in my opinion, but as you get used to it, your speed and accuracy increases). A trackball or touchpad would prob easier to use, but I couldn't find one at reasonabe price when I was in the market.
I have the newer model, BTC 9019URFIII, which has a much smaller RF transmitter/receiver. The older one looks to be about the size of a deck of cards and pllugs into USB via a cable, while the newer one just plugs in like a USB memory stick.
If you want special function keys but don't want to replace your current keyboard, you can easily do so. Use KeyTweak from http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/ or something similar -- works great.
psteng19
Member
posted: Jul. 4, 2009 @ 9:53a
kimme said: Thank you bought one for my son. question is this good for online gaming?
You cannot hold down more than 3 (I think) keys at a time with this keyboard.
psteng19 said: kimme said: Thank you bought one for my son. question is this good for online gaming?
You cannot hold down more than 3 (I think) keys at a time with this keyboard.
I believe it is more than 2 (according to review on Amazon). Meaning pushing 2 at same time is OK, but 3 is not (unless it includes control, alt, etc.)
Does anyone know how the keys feel on this keyboard?
At work I have the lowest-end Microsoft ergonomic optical wireless desktop set, and the keys do not have a good feel at all. To me that is much more important than how many function buttons, etc that a keyboard has.
Does anyone know if the wired keyboards have a better feel in the keys than the wirless ones?
How about as you move up the expense range, do you just get more functions, or do you actually get a keyboard with better feeling keys.
I prefer wireless to wired, and I prefer ergonomic, to a flat style, however my highest priority is a keyboard that has a good feel to the keys.
Just as an aside, the best keyboard that I have attached to one of my systems is an IBM keyboard for an IBM PS/2 computer that was made around 1988. If you're of an age that you took a class called "Keyboarding" instead of "Typing," you might not be aware that once upon a time IBM made the best typewriters in the world, known as the IBM Selectric. When IBM started making the IBM PC, they transferred a lot of this keyboard knowledge to making computer keyboards. The peak of their computer keyboard design occurred in the the late 1980s, when IBM still had a very large share of the PC market. They saw market share eroding and thought they could recapture more of the market with something called microchannel architecture by trying to lock everyone into IBM. It backfired terribly, and IBM lost huge market share in the PC industry. After that they could no longer afford to put so much money into their keyboards due to competitive pressures. I have a 1998 IBM (desktop) keyboard that has a built-in trackpointer that still has a fairly good feel, but it's nowhere nearly as good as the PS/2 one from 1988. In later years the IBM keyboards seemed to stand out less and less from their counterparts.
Does anyone know of any modern keyboard that has the same feel that the PS/2 keyboards had from the late 1980s?
Thanks sajmy3. It looks like that company bought out IBM's technology, and so they are producing new keyboards, which would be the best for me.
If anyone is interested in the originals, http://www.clickykeyboards.com seems to have quite a few of the older ones as well.
It would seem to me that any patents on the original would now have expired and so anyone who wanted to could manufacture them, but I guess the cost is just too high and the demand too low. If only people had any idea what they were missing.
Including: 1 said: These keyboards truly are indestructable. Some time ago, I was at an anti-smoking assembly, and there was a part where they smashed old computers up to prove what a waste of money smoking is. They invited students to come up onstage and smash old IBM computers with a sledgehammer. The IBM PS/2 case split open like soft cheese when hit, and so did IBM's CGA monitors. However, when one student tried to smash a Model M keyboard, I couldn't believe what was happening before my eyes. The keyboard would not break apart after repeated blows with the sledgehammer. Keys went flying everywhere, but the keyboard remained intact. The student gave up and smashed another PS/2 computer. and 2 said: I will die slumped over this Keyboard. You can have mine after you pry it out of my cold, dead, fingers.
gogamer description said: Additional Features: Detachable Palm Rest Sleep and Log Off Hot Keys Spill Resistant 3 Year WarrantyAwesome, a sleep key. Been looking for a replacement keyboard with a sleep key for a decent price for ages. In for one. Thank you, OP!
Well actually my son is really good at gaming, but he is very picky he wanted a razor key board, I am just cheap and I don't want to spend a fortune on a keyboard. but if he does not want it I will give it to someone else no big deal. I am just not into gaming, I do not like them and I work alot, I do not no much about computers so just thought I would ask. my son is very smart when it comes to computers, for christmas I bought all the things he wanted to redo his computer and it was a pretty penny. learned my lesson and those graphics cards are very expensive...
dondavi
Cranky Member
posted: Jul. 7, 2009 @ 3:41a
$12.90 now....I'm missing out on all the deals these last few days....snooze and lose.
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