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Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro

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1	3919	01-15-2006

Recommended By	Average Price	Average Rating
100% of reviewers	None indicated	None indicated

Description:	I wish I could say my room was non microsoft. But there's one product I really don't want to give up. The Natural Keyboard Pro. It's capable of operating as either a USB keyboard, a PS2 keybord, or a PS2 keyboard with a 2 port unpowerd usb hub built in. It's big. That's the first thing epole say about it. About 2inches wider than the compaq keyboards i have a small army of. 3 inches deeper, bit most of that is the wrist rest. And it's about 2 inches thick. Why? Well if you've not seen one, you really should. the main set of keys is split down the middle and are angled in a gentlle V shape pointing upwards and towardt the user. The standard lights are in the centre where you can actually see them. The Ctrl, Alt, Win and Space keys are really huge. Great for gameing, or finding in a hurry. It takes a few seconds to get used to. It forces you to type with 2 hands - it's quite difficult with one, and once you're used to it, you'll want one all all your machines, or hate it. It's not for those with small hands. I wouldn't give one to a child and my fiancee has trouble with it. So is this a hardcore typists keyboard? Yes.... but... it has extray keys. 19 of the damn things. Now to be perfectly honest i've not put too much time into setting them setting them up. Xev will tell you the keycodes that each keypress generated. And all 19 do work, straight out the box with Xorg thinking we have a generic 105 key jobby. If you're running KDE, all you have to do is fire up the control center and look for the section on keyboard shortcuts. Unfortunately I don't run KDE, so I can't do it that easily. I will post once i can be bothered to sort it out. I've had the keyboard for a year or so now, having gotten it off a friend who had just bouth the latest model of natural. I took all the keys off the front, scrubbed them with a toothbrush and soem fairy liquid, took a nail file to the fag burns in the wrist rest, and It's clean and happy, despite being owned by a chain smokers. Oh and my fiancee has trodden on it a fair few times, but seems to have sustained no damage. Overall It's a great keyboard despite being microsoft. Tough, reliable, and comfortable. And free from DRM, spyware, and blue screens.
Keywords:	Keyboard Ergonomic Microsoft Natural
Connection Type:	USB and/or PS2

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01-15-2006, 09:07 AM

MarvinR

Registered: Jan 2006

Posts: 0

Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 0

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You can get the extra functions keys working with keyTouch. Because keyTouch doesn't support this keyboard yet, you will have to create a keyboard file for it. This is done easily by using keytouch-editor. Documentation for keytouch-editor is found here: http://keytouch.sourceforge.net/keytouch_editor/
Send your keyboard file to marvinr(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net so that other users do not have to create a keyboard file.

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