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Phil

Nice review, and I mostly agree. However, under Win 8.1 there is a BIG problem currently.

The issue you describe about characters keeping walking in FPSs is due to the KB going into ‘sleep’ mode after about 6 s without key-press changes. You can see this because any of the LEDs on the device (e.g. Numlock) go out.

However, waking the KB up by typing it doesn’t always send the first key typed. This means that sometimes you have to press the first key twice. Sometimes not. It seems to be related to how long the KB is idle. For tasks where you aren’t typing constantly (e.g. programming) this makes the KB annoying to the point of being useless.

From the forum posts I’ve seen so far, this is a driver problem. MS seem unwilling to acknowledge this or provide a work-around. The only solution for me is to try and get the shop to take it back for a refund or bin it.

Which is a shame because other then that, it does seem to be really good value. I just needed a cheap stand-by while I investigate why my solar-powered Logitech KB is currently not working. But I’m actually finding I like the MS keyboard quite a lot, and might even consider switching to a (fully working) ergonomic shaped KB in the future.

Trkstr

Please see my comment in this reddit post:

http://redd.it/2j40if

Managed to solve this problem for me.

Tamas Turi

Good article. I got the keyboard for gift and started to use it. I noticed (I’m Hungarian and Hugarian key layouts are exist two different arrangement, and this is just one that I did’t used to…) No problem, I thought, I’m gonna used to it. Little Enter and right AltGR in wrong place…

I noticed that the keyboard doesn’t contains a Sleep key! I was searching for a long time but never found. So I need to sleep the pc with the power button. No problem. But this bastard keyboard always wakes up my PC! I had to ban waking up for the device.

There are some little other problems. I don’t have any idea why is not MUTE button on it, and why is CALC button? Mute woud be more clever and the Sleep is missing as well.

In short I am not satisfied with this keyboard at all. I’m just using because I don’t have any other, but slowly I’m thinking on to change back for a basic, standard keyboard. This curved shape comfy and stuff like that, but I can’t take this idiot layout where is everything messed up. Backspace, Enter, AltGR.