diNovo Media Dkstp Laser Review

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(More customer reviews)I've been intensively using diNovo Keyboard for Notebook for four months. This is by far the most beautiful, most quiet, most pleasant to use and most expensive keyboard I've ever had. I'm a programmer and use keyboard daily for many hours. My requirements to keyboard are:
1: Be quiet: I have family and family does not appreciate loud knocks at night
2. Be soft: I type way too much to fight stiff keys
3. Have short stroke keys: see above. Short stroke (laptop style) is the best as it lets you move fingers as little as possible.
4. Have a "standard" layout: Delete, Home, End, Page Up/Down keys must be located in a standard 2x3 pattern. I type fast and I go a lot between many corporate client computers that have cheap wired keyboards. I can't afford to re-train my reflexes every time over-creative keyboard designers move the most useful keys into a new position, for example: stock them vertically, as on many multimedia keyboards. Home and causal professional users won't mind, but if you type 8-12 hours a day, hitting a wrong key can be annoying.
This keyboard had it all and there is not much to say here, it hit the spot.
Now on Cons:
- Glossy black surface: looks cool in sale brochure, bad choice for work. The slick surface feels unpleasantly oily under my both thumbs - where they touch the surface below the space key. I hated this feeling 4 months ago, I still hate it now. I would gladly pay extra for a textured matte surface instead - as on any $5 keyboard.
- Function keys are really small, but what's really bad: the whole row of keys is jammed right at the top of number keys. There is no distance between them. Eject key is right at the top of Delete key. I can not tell you how many times I've hit Eject instead of Delete: dozens per day. Still do it, after four months of usage. Learned to ignore the open tray of my CD-ROM, but never learned to like this "feature". Definitely a case of "design for show" taking over common sense and good engineering.
- Price is really premium. $90 for a simple wireless keyboard with no mouse, that's not cheap.
- No option to buy keyboard with a matching mouse. I'd gladly pay extra to have a well-matched wireless mouse. Can't understand rationality of this marketing decision, but what do I know about marketing...
Conclusion: would buy this keyboard again, but beware of shortcomings.

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