Kensington SlimBlade Media Notebook Set with Wireless Keyboard, Laser Mouse, and Numeric KeyPad (Graphite) K72279US | List Price: $129.99
Discount Price: $62.95
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Platform: Macintosh, Windows
Brand: Kensington
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 5 years warranty
Features: - Timeless and sleek design that fits in perfectly at your home office.
- Universal wireless keyboard with PC or Mac hotkeys gives you instant access to your favorite applications and websites
- Slim, wireless laser mouse with Scroll Ball provides easy and intuitive 360-degree scrolling
- Add the wireless keypad when needed for number-crunching
- Mouse goes into sleep mode when your notebook does to prevent power drain
Just Right!!! [Posted on 2008-07-03]
This keyboard is easy to install, has great range, and is about the smallest keyboard you are going to find. I put the numeric keypad away in a drawer because I never use it. I will warn you that the keys have a low profile and are very sensitive. This design may be problematic if you are heavy handed.
Nice keyboard set, room to improve [Posted on 2008-07-31]
Have had this wireless mouse/ keyboard set for several week now. Overall I like it; no problems connecting, drivers installed fine on XP on two machines. No conflict with Logitech wireless drivers on my Lenovo. Small keyboard size is very nice, I much prefer not having a number pad in between the mouse and keys, but it is cool to have one wherever I want it when needed. I still like my Typematrix 2030 keyoboard better but the vendor is out of them until later this year. Tactile feedback on the keyboard is a little less than ideal for me- I find I sometimes don't press down enough on some keys as I type. It is a very quiet keyboard to work with and I like that a lot.
The mouse works fine but it is not my favorite. It has a low form factor- easy to transport with a laptop- but I would rather use a normal-sized mouse. The trackball is a cool idea but it ends up shaking pages left and right at times while trying to scroll through articles, etc. I think a scroll wheel with left/ right tilt capability is better, as it is steadier. The 2 cm usb receiver fits into the mouse for storage, but you have to open the battery cover to put it in. Logitech has a better design with a little "cave" you stick the USB receiver into, and press a button to pop it out. Who wants to open and close a batery cover every time? it is not elegant. Also, the lack of side buttons on the mouse is frustrating, especially while surfing the web. All in all, I would say it was a good purchase. Keepin' it real.
Great design that performs poorly [Posted on 2008-09-08]
I have owned this product for 5 months and use it while sitting on my couch. I have this connected to my HTPC which is plugged into my 37inch LCD TV. The design looks great and the trackball for the scroll function is a nice idea that works pretty well most of the time. But unfortunately the wireless performance doesn't match the look. My primary gripe about this is that the range is too short to work from my couch. I sit only 6 feet away from the USB transceiver witch is plugged into the front USB connector of my PC with direct line of sight and both the mouse and keyboard occasionally skip or are unresponsive. Sometimes they completely lose the wireless link and I have to move the keyboard and mouse right next to the computer in order to regain the connection. I thought that maybe the problems were related to low battery, but the battery indicator light on the keyboard has never turned on and I still have problems at times even with fresh batteries. The mouse also has trouble tracking on some surfaces, like my couch fabric, but that may be expecting too much. Even though the keyboard is nice and small I would not recommend this product for an HTPC setup with distances longer than 5 feet.
wonderful keyboard, bad mouse [Posted on 2008-09-12]
keyboard looks great, really. All of my friends said "looks good and color also great." and work really fine.
problem is mouse. I hate mouse. it looks good also but, wheel is too small and I use wheel click a lot (which is same funtion as Control+left buttton click) but there is not wheel click funtion.
I'm using Vista and I installed driver for using keyboard hot key
but If I install then hot key is work fine but I get problem with ms word
Zoom short key is not working!!!! (control+wheel up/down)
so I unintalled driver, cuz I am using more ms word zoom short key more than keyboard hot key.
I'm gonna use only keyboard and get the other mouse!!
Near-perfect touch-typing; combines function, form and dual platform versatility [Posted on 2008-09-28]
At this price point one might expect out-of-the box plug-in convenience, but ordered set had defective USB receiver. Help phone was 'no longer in operation', online FAQ remedy required a third hand, and email contact was needlessly frustrating. But once the problem was pinned down to the 'dongle' (after several wasted hours), the entire unit was replaced ... turned out to be well worth the aggravation.
The key that ejects a CD/DVD in either Mac or PC mode from the Mac's sealed optical drive alone makes up for some (as yet) unrecognized combination keystrokes. As are the shaped and lively keys, the elegantly functional graphited chrome design, and the non-sliding metal case (far preferable to Apple's chicklets pasted on fancy plastic). If your needs are for a multibutton multimedia form-over-function control center, rather than a functional office typewriter, then this isn't for you. Conversely, if you want just a solid office tool without bells and whistles, then the SlimBlade is a rewarding choice. Adding to the cord-free keyboard are the laterally scrolling mouse wheel for spreadsheets, the removable numeric keypad, and wireless operation. [The also detachable remote media control unit is a $20 option.]
Although a 5-star performer, with lightly sculpted touch-typing (rather than flat slippery) keys and the delightful ability to switch painlessly between Mac and Win operation, the keyboard falls short in some lesser areas: "Caps Lock" ought to have an integral LED to show it has been struck unintentionally (rather than the 'a'-key); not all keyboard shortcuts are recognized--even with the Mac-driver installed--notably the strokes that use modifiers (alt/option, Ctrl, shift) with a command key (eg, shift-Cmd-F to preset Mac's search dialog to filename detection), or Ctrl-Eject to bing up the logoff dialog for Mac.
Note: I haven't yet fully tested the Micosoft 'Office' for Win shortcuts--thus far they seem to do the trick. I anticipate broader multi-key shortcut compliance in a version 2 driver release.
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