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Kensington 64382 PilotBoard Wireless USB Desktop for Mac (Mac) | List Price: $59.99
Discount Price: $27.98
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Platform: Macintosh, Windows
Brand: Kensington
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 5 years warranty
Features: - Kensington Edge: Quick RF (TM) wireless technology connects keyboard and mouse without cords and hassles
- USB RF Receiver plugs in for fast and easy wireless keyboard and mouse installation on your Mac (R) or Mac mini
- Diamond Eye (TM) optical technology lets mouse track smoothly on virtually any surface
- Full-featured keyboard and mouse with detachable wrist rest, scroll wheels, multimedia and Internet buttons
- Innovative user-switching key makes it easy to swap users on shared computers
On my fourth, awful product, great warranty [Posted on 2007-05-08]
The wireless range is quite poor. Range is improved somewhat by 'pointing' the dome of the receiver right at the mouse, e.g. velcroed to the bottom of your display. The keyboard and/or mouse just flake out after a few months.
We haven't had trouble with the driver in Panther and Tiger, the volume and itunes controls work fine, when the stuff works at all.
The one saving grace is Kensington's excellent warranty service. The system has a five year warranty. The 800 number gets you to a human pretty quickly. Tell them your troubles, your serial #, your address, guess at the purchase date, and a week later a whole new kit arrives. The new ones work fairly well for a few months, then start dropping key and mouse strokes. I do wish they would actually take the dead ones back for postmortems, maybe they'd learn to make reliable gear.
Disappointing [Posted on 2007-08-22]
I bought this keyboard after killing my Apple Keyboard by spilling coffee in it. I needed a keyboard desperately and pulled into a CompUSA going out of business. The keyboard appealed to me with the wireless capability and the Mac compatible design. I'm experiencing batteries that die quickly, a hub that doesn't light up to indicate low battery warning, missed keystrokes, keystroke lag, keys that are starting to fade after only 2 months, an eject key that opens and closes the CD carriage simultaneously, no support response from Kensington after two emails, and compared to Apple's designs--a rather gaudy design when you really look at it. It looks more like a white Windows XP design by it's standards (very subjective comment there). I don't use the mouse as I already have a Logitec MX Laser. I should have given it a 1 star rating but I am still using it until I buy a new Apple keyboard, and it is functional. Avoid this keyboard!
Keyboard is barely acceptable, the mouse is horrible. [Posted on 2007-10-16]
I actually got this product because I was attempting to use up some store credit at Best Buy and thought that a wireless keyboard and mouse would be nice to have. Unfortunately, I couldn't have been more wrong.
The keyboard is acceptable for day navigating your machine and surfing the web, but the rate of dropped key-presses makes it unusable for writing out anything lengthy, and coding becomes an impossibility.
To give this a little perspective, when using a wired keyboard to code I have about one mistake every 30 lines, with this wireless keyboard I had a mistake or two on each line.
The mouse is even worse, it eats through batteries like there's no tomorrow, doesn't have more than 3 feet of range, and doesn't track properly on most surfaces.
I would stay away from this product at all costs, even though it has come down in price by almost $40 it is not worth it.
mac users dont be scared [Posted on 2008-06-06]
this keyboard is good for the bucks. i use it on my mac g4 and have no complaints. the instullation cd is easy to install and once done installing all extra keys (safari,shut down, etc) are operational. the mac g4 picked up the keyboard as soon as i entered it into the usb.
great for my windows xp pc [Posted on 2008-08-08]
works great for my pc i am using windows xp pro all the keyboard buttons work and I got a great price from geeks.com $17.99 and received it in 3 days
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