Microsoft Digital Media Pro Keyboard by Microsoft
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Digital camera reviews of Microsoft Digital Media Pro Keyboard
Digital camera Review: Good Quality Keyboard with only a few quirks.
Summary: 4 Stars
Microsoft's Media Keyboards have always worked well in our house. No small achievement with small kids around and the number of drinks that are spilled in them. When the last one finally gave out, with the pricepoint on this model it was the natural replacement, despite not being an ergonomic model.
As always lets start with the negatives.
- To be fair, the plastic construction can feel a little cheap - especially the silver areas.
- Secondly, the "zoom slider" for example seems particularly useless. Sure it works and all, but I've not run across a single application where I would use it!
- Microsoft have kept the cost down by NOT including a USB hub in the keyboard. If you are low on USB ports in your system you might want to look at some of the higher end models with the USB hub in them rather than this model.
- Finally, and probably the most annoying, as with all new Microsoft keyboards isthe function key lock - or rather the fact that it defaults to the off position. This means that in order to access BIOS functions during boot, you need to remember to press the F-Lock key prior to pressing F2 or whatever to access the BIOS or the computer thinks you've typed ctrl-z instead! (Note: a previous reviewer alluded to the fact that on some systems a USB keyboard can never access the BIOS. I've never run into this, even with older machines, I beleive they may just have been caught out by the F-LOCK mechanism, but if you have a very old Win98 era system it may be worth checking this first).
On the plus side, its a Microsoft keyboard.
- The quality, as I mentioned above, at least for they key mechanisms is always very good.
- In addition the key response is excellent - just hard enough to let you know you've pressed the key but not too much to strain your wrists all the time. Also the wrist pad (although plastic) is about the right size even for my large hands. And its not too noisy either.
- Finally they "My Favorites" keys are a great addition (this at least they got right). This enables you to have up to 5 website (or custom applictions) pre-programed with a single key touch. I know you can do this with older keyboards but you did lose the functionality of the other hot keys if you remapped them.
At the end of the day however it is just a keyboard and it does the job. So all in all, a great buy at the price, although a USB hub built in would have given it the extra star.
Digital camera Review: Good keyboard
Summary: 5 Stars
Hey good keyboard, all keys are full size. theres nothing worse than a keyboard that has been condensed
thanks
Digital camera Review: Great Board, Extra Buttons Sometimes Conflict.
Summary: 4 Stars
Simply put it's a great board, been using it for a few months and it still works great, software for the extra buttons is great, though the bindings sometimes conflict I've noticed. Sometimes I can press them all day and nothing launches, other times I just tap em and it works like it should. Though best advice is don't install the software drivers unless you really feel it necessary.
Just my opinion, still 4 stars!
Digital camera Review: Great Buy
Summary: 5 Stars
It has all the keys I needed. I got it to replace a wireless that stopped working and I didn't like having to replace the batteries.Digital camera Review: Great Buy! Bought one for myself, and then a few more!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great keyboard hands down. Comfortable to type and has all the extras I would want. For the price, i expected less quality than what this keyboard actually is. After using it for a number of days, I ended up replacing the keyboard of other computers at home and at work! Great buy, the only surprise is how good it is. A few notes about the product.
All of the extra keys are assignable plus it has 5 'my favorites' keys which are extremely useful. It also has the option to let the function keys do other functions, They can be re-assigned, but nevertheless i do not find them that useful.
The quality is surpassed my expectations, As a whole it feels really solid. All keys are easy to press and reasonably quiet. The plastic used does not feel that cheap.
The zoom slider is rather useless in windows XP. (I am not sure about Vista) it does not work in any of my programs,
Overall a superb keyboard I highly recommend!