I finally received my new blue tooth enabled wireless keyboard and "laser" mouse. Let me say, it is sooooooooo cool.

The mouse: It is LASER. not optical so you no longer have that red annoying light coming out from the bottom of it and also it works great on reflective surfaces in which the optical mouse cannot. It is also sooo much more precision and faster even being wireless. You would never know that it was wireless. Of course it is a little more heavier that a regular mouse but it does come with extra cool buttons like scroll left and right and back and forwarg pages and even a thumb button for menu. It comes with its own rechargeable cradle so you never have to change the batteries. It also has an indicator on the mouse as well as in your task bar when your batteries are getting low.

The keyboard. Very cool. Not as cool as the mouse but does have some good points.. first the bad points.. they change the layout with the insert, delete, home, end, page up, page down function.. they removed insert and made delete bigger. i though that was kinda stupid. Next it has this awesome display of time and temp and all kinds of cool stuff on its little LCD. However, 1, its not in color and 2 it has no light.. or at least i didnt find one. I use it for my home theatre system which is already darkish in there and its hard to read the display. It does have quick figner roll switch that can easily increase/decrease volume and increase/decrease zoom. The keyboard is a bit heavier then other keyboards but still no that heavy. Anotehr drawback, does not come with rechargeable batteries and does not have a cradle to recharge it. They do give you 4 double A batteries. I put them aside and used my own 4 double A recharge able batteries and I have another set of four that are already charged waiting to be changed. I also have my own charger that will solve that problem. It doesnt seem to easily indicate on the keyboard that the battery level is like the mouse. maybe through buttons on LCD .. I havent found it yet. However it does display in the taskbar when the batteries are draining. .. well i think it does.. i saw an option that said keyboard batteries are full. Keyboard takes a little more to get used to.. especially since the insert button has been removed. and there are soo many function buttons that you can do cool things with that i havent gotten around to doing. for instance you should be able to take the keyboard in the other room "up to 60 ft" and press media and windows media player will load and play your playlist.. you can then use your finger to scrooll up and down the volume or even click next for the next song. So thats the scoop. Lets see how long it lasts before it breaks LOL

 

 

 

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I thought bluetooth only worked within a 6 ft range. That and if you have any decent keyboard and mouse, it should work anyway. I like wireless, but I rather get a good gaming keyboard like that high end FPS one. Something with a claw? I don't know. I saw it in thinkgeek

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Well don't know about that 6 ft range. I think this is new bluetooth technology that allows LONGER rangers. Let me tell you, that these keyboard and mouse supposed to be pretty good in speed too. the laser mouse is said to have high precision and speed that it will be gaming capability. I havent really tried it on games just yet, but I still havent seen any lag on it either. As far as a gaming keyboard. At work, we ordered these two belkin nostromo N52 gamepads. Now these things are pretty interesting. It is used with for your left hand and has like 12 keys on it but all kinds of button and shift buttons and even a little gamepad for your thumb. Total functions come out to like 101 functions. This is very cool when you want to play with like 3d shooter games.. use yourmouse to look around and shoot and your left hand will be to jump crouch change weapons and the click of a button. It might be something your looking for.

 

 

 

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I'd still much rather prefer a wired mouse and keyboard. Now that I think about it, wires getting in the way is a lot better then my mouse/keyboard disconnecting briefly and frequently. I'm not saying that Bluetooth products have this problem--I'm simply pointing out problems in general.

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