Microsoft Wireless Comfort Desktop 5000

by Microsoft

• Designed for Comfort - Type more comfortably with low-profile Quiet Touch keys
• Ergonomist-approved Comfort Curve design - Microsoft's Comfort Curve encourages natural wrist posture and is easy to use.
• Microsoft BlueTrack Technology - World's most advanced tracking - go more places than optical and laser.
• Reliable wireless with snap-in transceiver - The 2.4 GHz wireless USB Mini-Transceiver
• Windows 7 Taskbar Favorites - Easily access programs in the taskbar with convenient hot keys.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 2.9 x 18.5 inches ; 2.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B002JCSCYS
• Item model number: CSD-00001
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (441 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #25 in Electronics > Accessories & Supplies > Computer Accessories > Keyboards
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 14, 2004

Product Description

Style: Retail

From the Manufacturer

Microsoft Wireless Comfort Desktop 5000

Comfort Curve keyboard with soft-touch palm rest

Tuxedo-Style, Everyday Comfort

Dress up your desktop with this beautifully modern keyboard and mouse set. With tasteful mix of glossy and textured black surfaces, this desktop set will have you appreciating its good looks every day. The curvaceous keyboard design appeals to more than your eyes, too. It encourages you to use a more natural posture that aligns your arms, wrists, and hands for greater comfort. With a wireless connection, you can eliminate clutter and work from anywhere in the room-up to 30 feet away. Customize Taskbar Favorites on the keyboard and the buttons on the mouse for quick access to the programs, files, media, and webpages that you use most often. Plus, enjoy precision of the full-featured mouse, relying on Microsoft BlueTrack Technology for accurate cursor control on virtually any surface.

Key Features

1. Ergonomist-Approved Comfort Curve Design - The Comfort Curve design from Microsoft encourages natural wrist posture and is easy to use.

2. BlueTrack Technology - Take advantage of BlueTrack Technology, which combines the power of optical with the precision of laser for remarkable tracking on virtually any surface.

3. Taskbar Favorites for Windows 7 - Easily access programs in the Windows Taskbar with convenient keyboard shortcut keys. Rearrange icons in the Windows Taskbar by clicking and dragging, and the keys will automatically adapt to the new locations.

4. 2.4-GHz Reliable Wireless - Enjoy the 2.4-gigahertz (GHz) wireless technology, which delivers a reliable connection with up to a 30-foot range, with virtually no interference.

Product Details

• Designed for Comfort - Experience the ultimate in comfort made easy. Type more comfortably with low-profile quiet-touch keys. The palm rest and removable feet create a slope for a more comfortable wrist posture.
• Compact Design with Quiet Touch Keys - Appreciate a keyboard with quiet, responsive, thin-profile keys.
• Four-Way Scrolling - Scroll four ways for greater efficiency and comfort by using the tilt wheel.
• Media Center - Control media playback from your keyboard.

System Requirements

• Computer/Operating System
  Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP (excluding Windows XP 64-bit)
  
• Hard Drive
  100 MB
• Other
  USB
  2 AA alkaline battery required (included)

Product Description

Wireless Comfort Curve Keyboard and Mouse Set with Soft-touch Palm Rest

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

191 of 195 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Almost perfect keyboard. October 4, 2009

By M. Alonso

Style Name:Retail

I bought this keyboard because they've been pushing pair programming at work and they want everybody's workstation to have 2 keyboards (whole different topic). Regardless, I took this as an opportunity to shop for a new keyboard to use at work. First, I ordered a Logitech Wave, what a miserable pile that was. I could not get over 90wpm on that keyboard. Now yes, I know, 90wpm is pretty good, but the keyboard kept frustrating me and I could not get in rhythm with it. So I went to Best Buy and got this. And I must say...WOW! I had a comfort 3000 already and loved it, but I did not expect this keyboard to feel so good. On my first try at [...] I hit 136wpm! The keyboard's keys are provide incredible feedback and feel amazing going at high speeds, it really is hard to describe. The rubberized palm rest makes the keyboard a joy to use for long hours at a time, and the curve the comfort's are known for makes sure that the extended reach keys (b,n, etc.) are elongated enough to make them easier to reach and unlike the split keyboards, the spacebar feels like a normal spacebar with no extra effort required.

The downsides:
I'm a professional software developer so having good sized function keys is an absolute must. On this keyboard, they are small and slightly recessed. There is also very little separation between the groups as is normal on most keyboards (1-4,5-8,9-12) which makes it hard to find the one you want without looking. This might also be a pain for gamers. The function keys also seem to go down deeper than the regular keys putting a small amount of extra strain on my wrists. My other complaint is about the mouse, while it is small than the average Microsoft mouse, it is still quite comfortable in your hands, but the scroll wheel is annoying.... I personally prefer a scroll wheel that clicks, and this one is smooth with no clicking. Again, this might be my preference as a programmer as I like more predictability when scrolling as most development environments scroll by line instead of pixel, but it was an annoyance to me.

So overall, for typing, the keyboard is my absolute favorite keyboard of all time. For other things such as hitting F-keys and scrolling, I guess I'll have to get used to them. The Windows 7 function keys are nice I guess, but even though I do use Win7 (legal MSDN version of course), I find no use for them. The other little feature I like is that the usb dongle is a very small flash drive sized stick and not those long mouse looking things of the past. In the end, every person needs to make up their own opinion when it comes to keyboard preferences because keyboards are like chairs and mattresses, it is highly dependent on what you like.

In the end, with all the bitching and moaning I do with the F keys and mouse, I'm contemplating buying another one to use at home. Read more ›

77 of 83 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Not for gamers. December 4, 2009

By Erich Maria Remarque VINE™ VOICE

Style Name:Retail|Amazon Vine™ Review (What's this?)

If you're a gamer, even a casual one, this keyboard and mouse set is NOT for you.

The are two major issues that affect gamers:

1- Function keys on the keyboard are arranged in one long line, instead of three separate groups of four. In addition to that, they are also quite small! This presents a major issue for games that use function keys for essential features. For example, most games associate the Quick Save and Quick Load functionality with the F5 and F6 (or F9) function keys. Mistaking one for the other can mean game over. And it is very easy to mistake them with this keyboard. In fact, unless you have your room lights on, and are looking directly at the keyboard, you WILL miss them. It boggles my mind as to why MS decided to arrange the keys in this counter-intuitive manner.

2- The scroll wheel on the mouse is not notched. That means it scrolls smoothly without "bumping". MAJOR gaming issues can result from that. Weapon switching, precise scope zooming, etc, are all out of the question. While the keyboard can be used if you can manage to reassign game controls, the mouse is completely worthless. Think about it: you cannot properly play any game that requires you to switch weapons! Forget Counter Strike, forget Team Fortress 2, forget Unreal Tournament. If you decide to play those games with this mouse, quick death is guaranteed while you are scrolling through the weapon menu trying to select a specific weapon.

For non-gamers, however, this is actually a pretty good product. The build quality of the keyboard is great (sturdy and heavy), while the mouse is large and very comfortable (about the same size as a Logitech G5). Keyboard keys are truly silent (but mouse clicking is quite noisy).... The wrist pad is very comfortable, and doesn't irritate the skin. I like how the keyboard is curved: a natural shape for people who use all their fingers to type. There are plenty of shortcut keys as well. The included CD has IntelliType 7.0 and IntelliPoint 7.0 software for both PCs and Macs.

It is a very comfortable set, but unless you are planning to never use your PC for gaming, I can't fully recommend it.

The keyboard is a 4/5, while the mouse is a 2/5. So, the set as whole gets a 3/5. Read more ›

56 of 59 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Keyboard, great ergonomic feel September 14, 2009

By Pierre Huguet

Style Name:Retail|Amazon Verified Purchase

This keyboard has a great feel and the textured rubber wrist pad feels very nice. I love the curved key layout, I have been buying this shape of keboard for years.
The keys are quiet and give a great soft bounce feedback (not too soft).
The mouse also has a very nice textured rubber feel.
The optical tracking of the mouse works very well on any surfaces.
I bought this keyboard for the ergonomics and the windows 7 compatibility.
I like the taskbar keys buttons wich make accessing your pinned applications a snap. (Note: that in Windows 7 those keys will not only start the applications but once they are opened the keys will toggle between foreground, minimized state and application specific shortcut menu)
There is no led indicator of the keyboard state (num lock or caps lock) but the intellipoint software will display a tiny popup on the screen to show the state (Which I think is even better, since you don't have to look down from the screen). This "lack" of feature ultimately saves the battery life of the keyboard greatly.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A very comfortable keyboard September 18, 2009

By Zach

Style Name:Retail

I've been using a Microsoft Comfort keyboard for a while so the only thing I had to get used to is the ESC & Function keys being shorter. The keyboard itself is very solid feeling and the buttons are quiet and have a great feel. My previous keyboard was giving me fits as it would intermittently drop keys. I love the textured feel of the palm wrest and the rubberized feet on the bottom.

This set is by far the best I have had. I do have an issue with the scroll wheel on the mouse, but Microsoft is sending a new one to me soon. Dealing with technical support was quite painless and took only 20 minutes of my day.

I would have liked to rate this with 4.5 stars because of the shorter function keys, but I can get used to them.