My name is Rick, and I am currently studying my A-Levels at Ashton Sixth Form College. I enjoy liste...
My name is Rick, and I am currently studying my A-Levels at Ashton Sixth Form College. I enjoy listening to music, going out with my friends, and generally enjoying life. My two hobbies are playing guitar and flying model aircraft.
Member since:29.07.2007
Reviews:11
The reason for buying a new keyboard was because the keys on my other keyboard that came with my computer were becoming a bit 'hard', and it quite often became uncomfortable to type after the using the keyboard for more than half an hour.
This keyboard appealed to me because it was relatively cheap and had some handy media buttons above the keys (as most new ketyboards tend to have these days). It also looked quite sleek and ergonomic which although this wasn't its selling point, it matched with thte rest of my PC.
The overall layout of the keyboard is the same as any other. It's a standard qwerty key layout like any other, and the function buttons (F1, F2 etc) are where they are on any other. The numeric keypad on the right hand side is also the same as every other keyboard. The part that's different is where the Insert, Home, Page Up, Delete (as in the key, not backspace), End and Page down are. Instead of being in a block like they usally are, The delete button is directly above the up arrow key, above that is the page down key, and above that is the page up key. The other three keys are across the top on the same line as the functions keys, but are separated from them.
The posotive points of this keyboard are that it's cheap, has soft keys, and is virtually the same as any other keyboard, so almost no time is spend getting used ot it. The function keys on top come quite in useful mainly when browsing the internet or when using Windows Media Player (they do not work with any other media player), even though they cannot be reassigned to do anything else, you wouldn't really expect that form a keyboard you paid less than £5 for. INstallation was quite simple as all I had to do was unplug the old keyboard and insert the new one into the PS/2 port (when the computer was turned off), and swith the computer on. The keyboard worked normally as soon as windows started, and no drivers needed to be installed and nothing needed to be configured.
The negative points of this keyboard are that the manual that came with the keyboard is slightly brief (one page, double-sided), although there's not really that much to using a keyboard unless you've literallyjust started using computers. The onyl other point is that whilst the key layout on the main part of the computer is still a qwerty layout, and I have to admit I don't use the small set of keys in between the Number Keypad and the main Keys *that* often, it was slightly confusing when I was looking for them the odd times when I did use them.
Overall I'd give this keyboard 7 out of 10, because you get what you paid for and that little bit more, so it's pretty good value for money. It's also never stopped working on me so as far as I can see it's pretty much 100% reliable.
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