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(More customer reviews)If you do serious typing for a living like me, this is NOT the keyboard for you. For some bizarre reason the Creative people decided to put two "\" (forward slash) keys on this keyboard. I barely used the one to begin with. To make matters worse, this redundant key is located immediately to the left of the letter "Z", which is traditionally where the shift key should be and the shift key is now two keys away from "Z". I typed one document with this keyboard and I hit that "\" key just about every time I wanted to hit the shift key. To accommodate this extra key, they shrunk the left shift key to half it's usual size and my left pinkie had to do an uncomfortable stretch to hit this shift key in it's nonstandard location. The other "\" key, which is usually located either above the enter key or next to the backspace key is now placed between the enter key and the apostrophe key on the "home row". And again, I am hitting that "\" key with my right pinkie instead of the enter key, which again, is an extra distance/stretch of my pinkie away.
The mouse also has a design problem. It has a "back" button on the left side of the mouse and a "forward" button on the right side. These buttons are located midway between the front and back of the mouse and almost flush with the top of the mouse. So when I grab the mouse to move it around I found myself accidentally pressing the "forward" button a lot and had to hold the mouse in an uncomfortable/unnatural way in order to avoid hitting that button.
It is unfortunate that they chose to play fast and loose with the standard QWERTY lay out as the ability to charge the batteries without taking them out of the keyboard or mouse is a nice feature. If you are a hunt and peck typist, maybe you can live with the changes, but if you going for speed and type for a living, this keyboard will frustrate you immensely.
Also, a personal pet peeve which is common to most wireless keyboards: The "cap lock", "number lock" and "scroll lock" indicators are located on the receiver and not on the keyboard. Are we suppose to glance 5 or 10 feet way everytime we want to see these things?
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