Very nice.... ^

PS to ScottC-- Ive been trying to reach you, if you read this, please PM me with your email address. Thanks.

Honestly, I am too. I'm just jerking your chain. Sorry.

And I am a huge Apple fan, but I love yanking yours too

Oh how fun the Internet can be

Thanks for the link; it looks interesting. I have been very impressed with the hardware I have purchased from Microsoft to date!

Didn't they sell the hardware division that makes mice and keyboards?

In that flash movie, they even managed to work "vista" in too.

-David

Well, the keyboard is being designed "for Vista". I read this week that MS is even working on a special "Vista Monitor" so I can only assume we'll see more VistaReady hardware coming out of Redmond...

Call me a purist, but a curved keyboard does not appeal to me in the least. The muscle memory in my fingers is very accustomed to a "normal" keyboard.

To take the thread on a slight detour:

I've been looking at purchasing a new external keyboard, probably one of the MS ergonomic ones. One I was looking at was in the 6000 series, but there were several comments on several websites about problems, particularly with the space bar. I have a few specific questions below, but if anyone has strong feelings (good or bad, though I realize that strong feelings are rare on this board ) about any of the MS ergonomic keyboards, I'd like to hear them.

With my current Microsoft Wireless Elite keyboard, I have to remember to hit the F lock key each time the computer boots in order to use the "traditional" function keys (F2=Edit, etc.). Since the keyboard needs to be replaced, I didn't try bothering with the workaround programs which are out on a few sites. One person commented that he thought that MS had changed this on more recent keyboards, so that, on booting, the F Lock is as it was when the computer was shut down. Can anyone confirm that the F lock on newer MS keyboards works like that?

Also, on the newer MS keyboards (though I didn't see it on the 8000 in Scott's link), there is a slider on the left side of the keyboard to zoom in. Can this be turned off? On my current keyboard is a scroll wheel which I have taped over to keep it from moving the screen when some papers touch it (as far as I can determine, I can't deactivate the scroll wheel on the keyboard without also deactivating the scroll wheel on the mouse, a function I use).

Thanks.

The Optimus (or something like it) would be more like the ultimate keyboard for me - if it ever saw the light of day.

Going from English to German to Korean to FPS would be great.

I'm trying to price this object.
I thought I saw a "buy now" link, but cannot re find.
When I search for it from the MSN products page, identifying it as "wireless backlit keyboard" (how many of these can there be that MS sells?) I get no hits.

I'm also having trouble actually finding where I can buy this. Link, anyone?

Probably not out for a few more weeks/months.

Didn't anyone else notice this part of the product description..."Virtually" implies that there *is* interference!

Got one of these yesterday

It's awesome, I just wish that it wasn't such a pain to install if installing over a different BT keyboard setup.

Why oh why is Bluetooth such a PITA?

Thank you.. that made my morning!

Certainly looks nicer than the current MCE board...ug-ly.. and it only backlights the MCE keys...

Please let us know how it pans out...pretty tempted, but quite a lot pay if my current keyboard is working fine...

As for Chinese sweat shops... have any of you actually visited a "proper" factory that meets standards??

I have visited both and I can tell you line of differntiation is not as wide as you think.

Empoyee turnover is HUGE...if they disagree, slow down, FIRE EM!