I received this cordless mouse and keyboard set so I could give it my honest review. My initial thoughts are
— It’s a big keyboard base but very light
— The mouse fits well and has good a tactile sense
I want to start out by saying that while I was a computer programmer for 35 years, working with mice and keyboard daily, in the last 5-10 years I have primarily worked from a laptop keyboard, sometimes with a mouse. The only time I plug in a keyboard is when I’m going to be doing a lot of typing (I still like to program in databases for the “fun” of it), so my experience with keyboards and mice may be a bit dated (for the computer industry).
When I unboxed this keyboard and mouse I immediately thought the keyboard seemed huge. Then I realized it had the wrist rest built-in to it, plus some extra functionality keys across the top and the separate number keypad. So all in all, it’s a good size for so much functionality. The keyboard feels nice to the touch and the wrist rest is comfortable.
The mouse seems fairly standard but maybe a little bigger than I have been used to. It has a good fit for the hand with some bumps along the side where your thumb goes for a better grip. The scroll wheel is nice and large, for easy scrolling and isn’t smooth like so many mice, so it’s easy to roll the wheel. There are some extra buttons on the mouse, aside from the standard left and right button next to the scrolling wheel. There is one on top and two beside the area where your thumb rests. I’ve never had these extra buttons and the instructions do not give any information on their use.
After putting batteries into the mouse and keyboard, I pulled the USB dongle out of the mouse and plugged it into my laptop. The mouse started working right away, but the keyboard wouldn’t. I flipped its switch multiple times, with no luck, then checked the batteries to find one was dead. Once I put in fresh batteries, the keyboard started working right without a problem. I noticed three keys on the keyboard (top right) that were listed as “2.4g – BT1 – BT2”. Not knowing what they were I pulled out the instructions and found the BT1 and BT2 keys were to use the keyboard as a bluetooth device instead of a 2.4g USB device with the dongle. So I removed the dongle and pressed the button on the bottom of the mouse to switch it to BT2 then pressed the button on the keyboard and I was working again, this time with bluetooth and no need to lose a USB port to a dongle. I love this feature!
I typed this review, and a few other things, as a test for the keyboard and found the keys to be responsive and quite. I can remember when ergonomic keyboard first started coming out and they were a lot bigger than this with some strange shapes, but this one seems to be ergonomic with a smooth flow to the keyboard. It will take me a while to figure out some of the keys on the keyboard as the way the instructions say they should work, don’t actually work that way (that I can tell).
I will give this a 5/5, primarily because of the bluetooth capability and the feel of the keyboard. The only problem I have had with this is with the instructions, which seem a little limited and wrong (at least when it talks about the “layout switch”, which does nothing when I try it).
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