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Pros

Keyboard is slimmer, more compact and best of all, no cables to try and hide. Key travel distance is optimal, somewhat between a laptop keyboard and a normal keyboard.

This keyboard is a godsend. The split and curve in the keyboard is perfect for me. Can work for hours easily typing. The mouse is better than an ordinary one but i find the size and shape means i tend to use a lot of wrist when moving it.

Battery life is just great, keyboard goes on forever. The batteries seem to last forever and as they're standard aaa's they're easily replaceable with alkaline or nimh.



Cons

Dongle rather than bluetooth - this is a far more minor issue for me, but the fact the keyboard requires a usb dongle to use rather than able to connect directly over bluetooth is just a real shame. I just don't get the desire to have the numerical ke...  Read More

It's just not usable. The first is its penchant to actually stop working. What's worse is the shocking service model microsoft have.

Key placement on the right hand side is really weird. Unless you're a practiced musician with a good finger stretch you have to move your index finger off the 'j' key to reach the enter key with your pinky. Too discreet a button which often results in...  Read More

The f-key row are very hard clicky microswitches with keycaps which fit very poorly. The 0 on the numeric keypad only works if hammered hard. The lack of separation of the key clusters also makes it difficult to find the cursor keys without looking. T...  Read More

The wrist rest appears to be made of an unsuitable material. The home block is only 2 wide. This means your wrist is bent as your hand is lifted off the desk.

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Quality


The quality of build and features feel fantastic.


Overall i am very happy with build quality and comfort.


I'm left handed and fed up of keyboards with the number pad fixed on the right


The only bad design feature with the microsoft sculpt keyboard is the changing of the function keys to windows specific keys (p...  Read More

Competitiveness


I bought this to replace the last one i broke, if this one breaks i will get another one, simply the most performant and comfor...  Read More

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    ergonomic, comfortable, new, first and great.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 102.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 1,508 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 3 2023.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    However the surrounding border of the keyboard is minimal


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Ive not used the mouse so wont comment on that


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Id like to see some indication of caps lock being on or off


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Please note that the keyboard is not bluetooth compatible and comes with a usb dongle receiver that plugs into your machine


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Loose or damage your dongle and the keyboard and mouse become paperweights


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The keyboard didnt work out of the box


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The batteries duracell had leaked and the resulting liquid had coated the connection


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I decided to bite the bullet and bought an ergonomic keyboard

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