Got a Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop

Pretty happy with it. Keys have a solid, smooth, soft feel to them. Easy to push and feels way better than my old one. Pretty good range so I can lie on my bed and watch movies or play around with MCE. Once I get a projector then it'll be on. Wont even need to get out of bed, except for work :/ Batteries last ages aparently -- 6 months some say.

Got it relatively cheap, 80 NZD New. Saw the same thing in Dick Smith for around $149.

So... "Where do you want to click today?". Yes, thats rhetorical.

glad to hear they improved the battery life the first microsoft wireless keyboard and mouse bundle was rubish it was always running out of batteries

I tried the MS wireless desktop a year and a half ago -- it had a great feel to it. I ended up returning it, though, because I didn't realize until after the fact that it didn't have an 'insert' key anymore (it was the one with the double-height delete key instead.)

Since I use shift-insert for pasting stuff dozens of times a day, and it's the only key combination that I can paste stuff with in a Linux shell as well, it was pretty much unusable to me.

But I loved the wireless mouse that came with it. I then got a microsoft wheelmouse optical (which looks absolutely identical to the mouse from the wireless desktop package), but had very bad luck with that -- unlike the bundled mouse, the wireless wheelmouse had a lot of problems. 3 out of 4 times, a double-click wouldn't register with the system, regardless of how he sensitivity settings were set up. I could always single-click, drag, or select, but doubleclick was a disaster. I figured it was a bad one and exchanged it for an identical one, only to run into the same issue.

in the end, I settled for a regular wired microsoft wheelmouse optical, and a wireless no-name chinese keyboard.

I have 2 logitech wireless optical desktops and 1 microsoft Laser desktop. The logitech ones are *much* better.

the MS is a battery eater and had a conflict with my Wacom Tablet.

Yeah, I have one too. I don't care for it. It does eat batteries, and I also don't like the double-height delete key like xlsior mentioned. I've had the bloody thing a year and I'm still mistyping in that part of the keyboard.

The insert key is part of the F Lock thing, If F Lock is on you just press the PrtScn/SysRq Key. If its off the key becomes PrtScn. On the box it was gloating about 6 months battery life, I'm just using the batteries that came with it but if it really is a battery eater then I'll just get some rechargeable ones, My wireless 360 controlls both use the same type so It'll be a bonus.

For comparison: my no-name keyboard lasts about 8 months on a pair of AA-batteries. The one thing that took a little bit of getting used to, is that to conserve power, there are no LED's on the keyboard itself, but it does have capslock/numlock lights on the wireless receiver unit itself.



I know. And pressing that 'insert' button works great in programs like microsoft word to toggle between insert/overwrite, but it will NOT work in combination with shift-Insert as a universal 'paste' shortcut. (Even in applications where CTRL-V doesn't work, Shift-Insert pretty much always does)

Shift-Insert works fine for me in notepad? Yeah the leds aren't on my keyboard either, the're on the receiver unit.

Has anyone else noticed that the devices dont work too well when close to the receiver, they actually work better with a little distance?