Low cost keyboard not built well enough. (Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000)

Member Name: Stealthboy50

Product:	Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000
Date:	02/09/09 (19 review reads)
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Advantages: Has a good layout, and some nice buttons

Disadvantages: Is poorly made to withstand lots of typing

A keyboard is a very important thing for a computer. You can just not use a bad keyboard, you use a keyboard all the time on a computer, so you need a good one. Now I got this as a gift, and was not expecting much. I have feel for the "Ultimate comfort accurate keyboard" and spent £50 on it, only to find the keys are all in different places, and it is impossable to touch type with. So opening the box, I saw that they keys are all different shapes, and they keyboard was a curved shape. So not expecting much, I plugged it in, and gave it a go.

Now, they layout was very good. I quite liked it. I could type better than my old one, and to be honest, even if I had brought it, for £11, it was a great budget keyboard. I have a nifty litttle button that opens the calculator, I have a back/forward button, but my mouse also has a much better placed one of them, so I do not use it much. It looks quite nice, and I really liked it when I got it.

But 2 months later, it started to go wrong. First of all, I started to get a huge buildup of rubbish in my keyboard, and when I spilt a bit of drink on it, whilst nothing happened, it did get in my keyboard, and I spent ages trying to clean it up where it happened. Then my spacebar broke, and now I am left with a very annoying broken spacebar, that I have to hit in the right place, or the spacebar will not work. Then just normally using it a few weeks later my little leg snapped off, So now i have to wedge the keyboard with a small bit of paper. And to be perfectly honest, I have now had the keyboard for a year, and it just feels like it needs replacing, the buttons do not work very well, some of them get stuck, and it just does not feel well made at all.

But I think the thing is, I use my keyboard for gaming, typing up big documents, but the main thing is chatting. I mabey type 2500+ words a hour chatting, not much if you are a good touch typer, and the keyboard is just not build well enough to cope with that sort of typing. Sure, mabey some of the dooyoo users here only use there keyboard for a little bit everyday, and I can understand that, and if you are using it like that, it should be ok.

But for a user like me, there are loads of other keyboards you can pickup to use today, for about £30. But if you are only using your keyboard for a bit, and are quite a slot typer, I am sure you will like this keyboard.

Summary: A good keyboard if you are not using it for more than a few hours a day.

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