USB Irocks X Slim Illuminated El Keyboard for Mac

List Price: $59.99 Discount Price: $69.99

Features:

• Comfortable and tactile keystroke brings you silence
• Scissor-structure keyswitches make it softer and more responsive
• Ergonomic contour keeps you away from the pain and strain by its low-profile keystroke
• Slim and streamline make a great match for your LCD monito
• Function keys F1 through F-15 including the 'eject' key (F-12)

Customer Reviews:

surpisingly specifically bad  [Posted on 2007-03-29]
The most effective way to illuminate a keyboard is light through the letters only...This keyboard is the opposite of that and is quite a shoddy design for keyboard illumination...Otherwise it's ok...I would be embarrassed if i designed this keyboard.

Avoid this one. Beauty is only skin deep. [Posted on 2007-04-24]
1. The keys are lifeless. Flat and planar, it's easy to hit the wrong key.

2. The El is noisy. Mine hums audibly. As mentioned by another reviewer, the board lights up and the letters are solid, which makes them hard to see.

3. After only a month of regular daily use, my left shift key has occassionally stopped functioning, as has the enter key on the num pad.

it's pretty (oh, there goes my shift key again.0), but is inherently a bad design that is poorly executed. i bet no one at Irocks uses these keyboards. i'm sorely dissapointed.

Not bad. Not great. [Posted on 2007-05-12]
I needed a solution to a dimly-lit keyboard situation and ordered the Irocks Illuminated keyboard (Mac). The feel and function of the keys is excellent. It's compact, but as another reviewer has stated, there are no sound volume keys. I also miss having a USB port on the keyboard itself. The backlighting is a good solution in theory, but the problem with this keyboard's design is that the key mechanism creates a dark spot in the center of each key. The characters on the keys are offset a bit, but are still within the shadow area. The illumination of the keys might have been enhanced if the plastic used to make them was a translucent milky white instead of clear.

iRock doesn't Rock at all  [Posted on 2007-06-01]
I agree with most of the negative feeds on this keyboard-poor visibility/poor illumination/loud hum when EL is on. This review is about their customer service. That doesn't rock either.

I got this because i had dim vision and in a normally lit room i couldn't see the letters on a KB. My illumination didn't work most of the time. If i left the switch on it would just start working and then as suddenly stop working. I started the customer rma process in january of 07 and have pursued it all the way through my Attorney General's consumer complaint division. I sent the defective unit back and there has NEVER been a case where they contacted me. I always had to call them. I wouldn't buy anything this company makes because of this lousy response to my legitiimate complaints.

good slim touch keyboard [Posted on 2008-02-29]
I love this keyboard, it is my favorite second only to the new mac keyboard. The illumination feature I use only occasionally, when illuminated there is a hum and it puts off a lot of EMF so I wouldn't leave it on for very long, but as far as the keyboard goes it has excellent slim touch keys, I can type very fast on it. It feels nice like a laptop keyboard.

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