Microsoft Wireless Laser Desktop 6000 (Black) | 
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| Brand: Microsoft
Category: CE
List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $49.95
You Save: $50.04 (50%)
New (32) Used (1) from $49.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 3395
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 20 x 3.3
MPN: XSA-00001
Model: XSA-00001
UPC: 882224626996
EAN: 0882224626996
ASIN: B001B8EOMU
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Flip 3D Experience this dynamic Windows Vista feature by pressing a key or the mouse scroll wheel to display a 3D overlay of all open windows, and cycle through them. | | • | Translucent Border and Polished Racetrack Detail Brings the subtle elegance of Windows Aero to your desktop. | | • | Comfort Curve with Ultra-Thin Quiet Touch Keys Your hands sit more naturally on the quiet, responsive keys for comfort and productivity. | | • | "My Favorites" Keys Customize these 5 touch-sensitive keys to instantly bring up the folders, fi les, and Web pages you use most. | | • | Mobile Laser Mouse - with Magnifier, 4-Way Scrolling, Extended Battery Life, and 2.4 GHz Wireless |
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Product Description
The sleek, ultra-thin comfort curve keyboard encourages natural hand and wrist positioning for unprecedented comfort and productivity.
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| Customer Reviews:
 not so pretty, but works very good !! November 18, 2008
br /this thing its not pretty, but works very nice, feels very good.br /br / the drivers are very heavy for a Keyboard/mouse. but, i think those works fine.br /br /the mouse wheel, dont like a lot, but you get use to it.
Solid wireless keyboard combo November 7, 2008
Pros:br /Solid feel, adjustable high positioning, comfortable typing, very accurate mouse, slim design (doesn't take up the whole desk), stylish design, no delay when turning onbr /br /Cons:br /Occationally hit number keys in the middl9e of a w9rd, the "F-Lock" feature is off by default - it took me almost a week to figure out how to use F5 so I could Refresh. No intutive way to use the keyboard to put the computer to sleep. Mouse clicks are loud.
 Above Average November 4, 2008
This appears to be v3.0 in the picture and that's what I have so i will give you the good and the not so good. br /br /First the good. Arrived quickly and in great shape. I'm using Vista Ultimate 64 bit on a custom built computer. I had read "horror" stories about range issues, so I read the directions carefully. Used the included cd. Installed very quickly. Installed the provided batteries, inserted the "transceiver" into the front USB 2.0 port and everything worked. No addtional updates, no buttons to connect, they both just worked. This is the way things should be. The key boards "special" buttons do what they're supposed to. It is a good overall layout. I never use the function keys so whatever they were used for in the past is of no loss to me. The keyboard does take a day to get used to if you have never used a curved type keyboard, however this should not hold you back. It really does work well. I was worried about the design of the mouse. I have always used a standard mouse. This version really is natural to use and takes only a few uses to relize the benefits. You use your palm to move the mouse more than finger tips. Much less stress on your hand over a day's use.br /br /The not so good. The keyboard will rarely need a second push of a key to realize that you
 Why pay less when you can have a crappy product for more? October 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Hopefully this will help other people make an informed choice. Let me start with a little background - if you're like me, you think of keyboards and mice as simple disposable products. Not being an avid gamer or a precision designer, I don't have special requirements from a keyboard/mouse combo beyond "it should do what it's supposed to do". And with a keyboard and a mouse I don't want to do any more than tap tap whirr whirr click click.br /br /I am going through my second instance of the thing. I returned the first thinking I got a defective item of an otherwise fine product. Now, unless I'm unlucky enough to go through /two/ defective items, this is a rather crappy keyboard/mouse combo.br /br /To start with the basics, on both keyboards I used, the keys F and G only work when pressed perpendicularly; otherwise they simply can't be pressed. This is quite annoying. I hadn't realized how often my fingers just press under an angle inclined towards myself. All other keys on this keyboard are fine under my usual attack angle, so it's jarring that every once in a while I need to hit the F/G key in a different manner to have it work.br /br /A highly annoying issue is the wireless range. The 30 feet claim in the brochure is ridiculous and if I had the time I'd take these guys to the Better Business Bureau. I stuck the USB receiver to the front of my desktop machine, which is right under my desk. There is less that 3 ft of distance from the receiver to the kb and mouse, and all the signal has to go through is my knees and 0.5 inch of wooden desk. There are problems. The mouse is essentially unusable at that distance - it's spotty and jerky. The keyboard also is hardly usable, it will sometimes miss keypresses or sometimes duplicate them. I need to hold the keyboard in my lap and the mouse on the desk right above the receiver to make them work properly. That makes the range under 2 feet. And that applies to both instances I tried.br /br /As you can see from the product photos, the functional keys are smaller than the others, which makes them slightly more difficult to use. The more annoying thing is the "F-Lock" button (right in between F12 and PrtScn) which, guess what, hijacks all functional keys and gives them some predefined (and highly useless for all I can tell) functions. For example, Alt-F4 won't close a window anymore because F4 is not F4 anymore. Worse, that F-lock is on by default (at least that misfunctionality kicks in without me ever pressing the F-lock button) so it took me a while to figure why the entire row of function keys won't work. Two minor annoyances are that the mouse roll has little friction and that the mouse is right-handed. I think I can get used to all of the above. The lack of Caps LED indicators may annoy some, but I actually don't mind that as it saves on battery life.br /br /On the plus side, installation is instant under both Windows and Ubuntu. There are no drivers needed, and Ubuntu recognizes and is able to assign useful functions to most, if not all, extra keys in the top row. I will note that the design observes the equal annoyance opportunity principle - the F-lock button renders all functional keys unusable under Windows and Ubuntu alike.br /br /Overall, the product is probably on a par with considerably cheaper similar combos, so I'd recommend anyone wanting to pay an extra buck for better quality to pay it somewhere else.
 No complaints here October 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was waiting for verion 3 to come out, looking for the 2.4GHz and 30 foot range, and small transceiver. The mouse is really sensitive, more so then my optical mouse, so it took some getting used to. The keyboard seems to cut out a little but it could be from all the other 2.4GHhz devices I have running at the same time. I'm about 10 feet from the transceiver. The comfort curve is quite nice, not quite as nice as the natural, but it better than the standard. This is my first keyboard with extra function keys (media player, volume control, zoom, customizable, etc.), and I must say they are quite nice. I do wish they kept the F1, F2, etc. keys grouped in 4's like most keyboards, hitting F5 to refesh is a little difficult, I have to look more for it. I might have to pick up another one of these to have at work.
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