Customer Reviews

Adesso AKB-901 88-Key USB Mini Keyboard

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My title explains most of it. This keyboard is a great price. It works wonderfully, is light and compact, and has decent key placement. Well, not all the keys are decent. There is one reason, one key, that tanks this keyboard for most people. The only ctrl key is out of place. Just try to do a ctrl-shift to a ctrl-c to a ctrl-v without breaking a finger on this darn keyboard. The horrid little "Fn" key is where the Ctrl key goes and it is a nightmare for a programmer. I'm sure anyone who uses MS Office products much will find it annoying as well. Other than that key, this keyboard isn't too bad.

A similar model of Adesso's is the MCK-91, which has the Ctrl key and the Fn key swapped so that they are in the right place, but it carries a few other problems I just found out. Neither the MCK-91 or MCK-901 are totally worthwile.

So it's basically "pick our poison". No manufacturer seems to have the perfect keyboard. Similar manufacturers, other than Adesso that I know of, are Cherry Corp, Zippy, and SolidTek. Adesso seems to be the best at the moment.

We purchased four units for warehouse kiosks at our plant.

The num lock will sometimes activate on these units for no apparent reason. One unit arrived with loose connections, and has an intermittant fault. A bit dissapointed with the quality of this item

This is the perfect sized keyboard you've been looking for, if you want to get your mouse next to your keyboard on a smallish under-desk keyboard tray. It is a tremendous help ergonomically to have the mouse in the lower, nearer position. However, the keyson this keyboard are small, and have a very light bounce to them, and it is easy to mistype. Adesso could do more to give the keys a distinctive feel, so you really know where your fingers are. But if you are a decent typist, and don't mind running spell-check from time to time, this can work well.

I love mini keyboard and used several ones.

This is quiet nice. When I touch it I can hear very good sound.

However, it has some problems.

There are two windows keys; left and right of space bar.

The left one is ok, but the location of right windows key is so bad.

whenever i try to put right-Alt, I touch the windows key.

(And the right-Alt is so small!) Because of this key, space bar become smaller than other mini keyboard. And it has tooooooooooo small backspace and enter, just half size I think.

(Actually all rightside keys are smaller than normal size.)

If you just use this for internet or so, it will be fine.

It occupied less space than normal keyboard.

But if you are a programmer or a heavy type-writer, than aviod this key board. You can meet many typos.

I needed a small keyboard. This one is small and affordable. It's kind of annoying to use though. Maybe it's not fair to complain about it - since it's serving a purpose (being small) - but my general impression of the keyboard is not favorable.

This is a nice mini keyboard that works well for me.

I needed a mini USB keyboard for my Xbox 360 (it will get used elsewhere in the home but mainly as a keyboard for my 360). This one works great without any issues. The 360 doesn't require PC functionality like the F-keys or control keys but I have used these keys with this keyboard on one of the PC's in my house without any issues.

I love this keyboard - right size, right price.

I've had four of these keyboards consecutively. I really like the size, which conserves desk space, and I like the feel of the keys. There are a couple of problems I've noticed. The first is that they accumulate a lot of debris under the keys and they are very difficult to clean. Sooner or later one or more of the keys will stop working and it can be quite a job to dislodge whatever is under it. The second one is that after a year or so one or more of the the keys stops working altogether and it's time for a new keyboard. I wish they would last longer.

The good: It is small.

The bad: The layout of the keys was poorly thought out.

The ugly: Numerous keys didn't work & I had to go through the whole RMA thing to send it back. Amazon.com was very helpful, gave me an RMA w/o any trouble & they paid for return shipping.

So: 1 star for the keyboard, 5 stars for Amazon.com's customer service.

This product is not manufactured to quality I expected. Housing has large gaps and the keys are uncomfortable. Functions keys are not available for multimedia applications. I don't recommend this product.