Kensington Slim Type Keyboard - PC ( 64365 )

List Price: $26.99 Discount Price: $22.81

Features:

• Sleek contemporary profile complements any desktop
• Scissor-switch technology delivers crisp, responsive touch typing
• Laptop-style keys with a lighter action for faster typing
• Intuitive hot keys for one-touch multimedia control
• Easy USB connection

Accessories:

3-Year Extended Service Plan - Covers Electronic Items $0-$200 - Repair

Customer Reviews:

Superior Layout [Posted on 2008-06-24]
The Kensington keyboard layout is about as tidy and compact as possible in a full featured board with numerical pad. Typing is smooth and uncramped. The keyboard is slim, but seems ruggedly built and of high quality. Attractive design and minimal footprint makes for a clear improvement over traditional standard keyboards.

Awesome Keyboard - Awesome Price [Posted on 2008-07-11]
I got this keyboard because I work in an office and you do not have your own cubicle. Everytime you go to work you just sit at an empty one and most of the time the keyboard and mouse on the computers are horrible. I got this keyboard and its nice and thin and very quiet. No complaints.

Great silent keyboard  [Posted on 2008-07-14]
I ordered this product because I needed a silent keyboard for my dorm room-- my typing and tapping on my last dell standard keyboard would sometimes bother my roommate at night when she was trying to sleep. This keyboard is perfect for the job-- the short keys have just enough bounce to them to feel secure and definite when you press them so you know you've hit the key, and it's very quiet. It's also very small and saves a lot of desk space. And since I have little hands, it's perfect. I don't know how it would be for people with bigger hands.
The arrangement of keys might throw some people off: The delete, home, page-up, page-down, and end keys are arranged vertically next to the backspace/enter/shift keys, and might take getting used to for people who don't look at their keys when they type (like me). There's also an extra "\" key left of the spacebar that I'm not sure why it was put there and I sometimes press it by mistake, but I really don't find it to be a big enough deal to grade down much on it.

I've had this for about a month and a half now, and I've noticed the "S" key has started to wear off a little bit, but since I don't look at my keys to type, that doesn't really make a difference to me either. I also had an instance where the "k" key would stick and would not type unless I hit it several times very hard. I solved that problem by popping of they key and then putting it back in. Was not difficult. Works perfectly.

I've read a few reviews of people complaining about the supposed chrome border rubbing off after resting their hands on it for so long. I have a wrist support in front of mine, and the keyboard is so thin and short that the wrist support is higher than the bottom of the keyboard, so my hands never touch the chrome at the bottom anyway. And besides, why are you judging a keyboard by its aesthetics if the rest of its design works perfectly fine?

Overall, the keyboard has a few quirks that can take getting used to, but it's worth the money, and I love this keyboard. No extra bells and whistles that I don't need and will never use, just a plain, straight-forward, silent and functional, comfortable keyboard for a decent price. Well done, Kensington!

Excellent Purchase [Posted on 2008-07-16]
If you're in the market for a keyboard without all the "bells and whistles", the SlimType is excellent. It has a low profile, unlike many keyboards that take up a huge amount of desk space. The media, volume and calendar quick launch buttons are highly useful without being gaudy as in some other keyboard models. Key response is also excellent and perfect for everyday use. The only downfall for some users might be the fact that this keyboard is not wireless. Although having a wired keyboard allows for consistent performance, with no batteries to replace.

Pretty quiet, which was my main purpose [Posted on 2008-07-31]
I bought this because I need a quieter keyboard. Although not as quiet as the latex ones, it is much quieter than normal keyboards and yet feels and types normally (the latex one is just too hard to use).
Importantly for me, this also works with the KVM, which the wireless ones do not.

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