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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love it, February 11, 2009
This review is from: Ione Scorpius R31 Slim Mce Keyboard with Touchpad USB (Electronics)
Surprisingly wonderful. I use it with my toshiba laptop.
Pros; Great touch, very light, thin as a pancake, nothing quirky, actually seems good quality, plug and play, touchpad works well ( not all touchpads are great)
Cons; no scrolling on touchpad, can't program corners of touchpad as on some laptops , some keys with different location than on my toshiba but that's to be expected
Thanks Amazon, Ergogeek ( got it in 2 days), and ione.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Functional but could have been much better, January 23, 2010
This review is from: Ione Scorpius R31 Slim Mce Keyboard with Touchpad USB (Electronics)
I have had this product for a little over 3 months now. I often found the laptop table was inconvenient - found myself reaching over to the keyboard. A lightweight keyboard with a mouse built in was what I was looking for. This seemed to fit the bill.
Overall, I must say this product has been very useful to me. It serves its purpose. But, there are a lot of things that could vastly improve the product.
First the positives:
a) The keyboard is thin, light and very portable. I can use the laptop easily whether I am seated or lying down and have the screen at an appropriate distance.
b) The keys themselves are quite ok. They look very similar to those on an IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad, and the feel is also reasonably good as I type.
c) I like the quick buttons at the top of the keyboard for volume controls. I never used the rest (there are some for fast-forward/rewind etc).
d) The installation was a breeze - just connect the USB cable to the PC and you are good to go. It worked with Mac as well.
Now for the negatives:
a) There are two HUGE negatives that may be _show-stoppers_ for many people. The first is the integrated touchpad mouse with the two buttons beneath it. The touchpad does not have a scroll function usually found in most laptop touchpads. While you can manage with the left click by tapping on the touchpad, you have to deal with very flimsy right click button below it. It reminds you everytime that you are clicking it and it is almost as if it resists you with all its power.
b) The second huge negative is the weird behavior of the Fn key and the lack of a right-Ctrl key. Unlike my Thinkpad keyboard where Fn is purely to be used in combination with other keys, with this keyboard this key has a toggle behavior. If you hit the Fn key, an LED lights up at the top to say it is in the special mode. Many keys to the right of the keyboard either do not work in this mode or emit characters that you rarely care about. The most annoying thing is that Fn and Ctrl are beside each other. It is very easy to accidentally hit it. In my opinion, this is a disastrous design decision. If you use the right Ctrl button often, you will find yourself hitting the 'right-click-key'. It completely beats me why you need the right-click-key. I have never used it and when I hit it accidentally it always seems to think I right clicked at the top left corner of the window.
c) The keyboard has tiny screws to keep the back plate on. For some reason, these screws just fall off every now and then (could be the vibrations from the typing?). In any case it does not inspire confidence in the mechanical build.
Overall, I have not yet found as sleek a touchpad keyboard yet. I give it three stars because it is functional if you are able to get over its quirks. But as the negatives show, there is huge room for improvement.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Bad quality of keys, October 2, 2009
This review is from: Ione Scorpius R31 Slim Mce Keyboard with Touchpad USB (Electronics)
This keyboard looks good - exactly like on my laptop. But when you typing on it, many of keys not responding well. So, when you type 10 letters, are actualy writen only seven or six.
If you want to write well, you have to be very hard when pressing keys and checking what you write.
This is disappointment for me.
But in other look, keyborad is very quiet (sometimes keys have sound like creak, but nothing serious).
Conclusion:
I have to back to my Logitech UltraX Media keyboard, that have so much better quality.
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