PreviousWednesday 3 May 2006, 9:23 PM
slick, but hard to use and incomplete.
This device, once set up, has two major problems. 1.Sensitivity to user key presses is very difficult to control. If you are a good typist you will have to slow down a lot to use this.
2. The second problem applies to typists also. If you use hunt and peck, this will be fine. It is impossible to use home keys. Your hands must remain above the keyboard. That means watching the keyboard rather than the copy. Since you will get extra characters or else missed characters, watching the keyboard is a pain. If you don't, however, you have no home keys to keep your hands where they belong.
There are two other items: if the keyboard were capable of projecting multiple international character sets (example Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew)and variant layouts, it would be worth infinitely more. That cannot be done with a single physical keyboard, but it should be easy with this thing. The manufacturer tech site claims it is a "hardware problem." It should be turned into a software problem, and solved.
Tech support for this keyboard is very elusive. If you buy at a decent price plan to spend time looking at user groups and comments on websites like Expansys.com. If you pay way too much and buy from the company website, managed by 2P, plan on very long waits for help. Don't plan on help from the company website if you do not buy from them directly.
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