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| Belkin Wireless Keyboard and Ergo Optical Mouse |
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At least this straightforward wireless mouse and keyboard set looks cool. It's not that Belkin's Wireless Keyboard and Ergo Optical Mouse are particularly awful, but we experienced too much glitchy weirdness when using them. From a desktop hot key that made the taskbar disappear to a sleep button that shut down the receiver (thereby preventing it from recognizing the wake-up button), we suggest you keep looking.
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| BenQ X710 Wireless Desktop Companion Pro |
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Designed by BMW's DesignUSA studio, the BenQ X710's keyboard comes mounted on a smart adjustable cradle/wrist rest, which lets you slide it easily to your angle of preference. The optical mouse feels a little insubstantial, but the keyboard media hot keys work, even with Winamp, and the left-side keyboard scrollwheel gives you flexibility for configuring the extra buttons in conjunction with the mouse for maximum efficiency.
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| Iogear Wireless Keyboard/Optical Mouse Combo |
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The sleek styling of Iogear's Wireless Keyboard/Optical Mouse Combo had us hoodwinked at first, but when we used this desktop set, it revealed itself to be better in concept than in execution. An unreliable IR signal caused too many repetitive key presses and manual reconnects. And while the high-resolution 800 dots per inch (dpi) mouse works well, Iogear opted for an irritating power-management scheme, with no visual power indicator and an irritating audible alarm when the battery runs low.
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| Logitech Cordless Desktop LX 300 |
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The larger-than-normal keyboard portion of the Logitech Cordless Desktop LX 300 takes up plenty of desk space, and while the keys have a springy tactile response, you're denied the customary audio feedback because they don't click. Both the especially button-heavy keyboard and the three-button scrolling optical mouse take two AA batteries, which Logitech says will last through 12 and 3 months of regular use, respectively.
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| Logitech Cordless Desktop LX 700 |
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The Logitech Cordless Desktop LX 700's RF wireless mouse and keyboard free your desktop from clutter, and you'll need to worry about only two AA batteries for the keyboard, as the mouse is also rechargeable. This desktop set remarkably versatile, with a full set of media-play controls, including burning and record buttons, plus Logitech's MediaLife media-management software, and zoom controls (among others) on both the keyboard and the mouse.
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| Logitech DiNovo Cordless Desktop |
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A pared-down version of the original DiNovo Wireless Desktop, the DiNovo Cordless version has the same high design look and feel of the original. The free-standing media pad has been pared down to perform only basic calculator functions (although it also reads the temperature), and this model is RF only, no Bluetooth. Still, the new RF microreceiver eliminates desktop clutter, and without the advanced functions it costs only $150, compared to the $250 original model.
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| Microsoft Optical Desktop Pro 3.0 |
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There's not much new to the Optical Desktop Pro 3.0 wireless mouse and keyboard set that we haven't seen in previous versions of the product, with the exception of the zoom slider on the left side of the keyboard. By providing an easy way to enlarge Microsoft Office documents, Photoshop images, and other files, we can easily recommend this keyboard set to anyone with poor vision or who does a lot of fine image-editing work.
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| Microsoft Optical Desktop Elite for Bluetooth |
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We're glad to see Microsoft take the significant step that it has with its Bluetooth Optical Desktop Elite mouse and keyboard set. The setup was a bit of a hassle, and the keyboard is large, but with plenty of hot keys, a reception range of 30 feet, and the receiver's ability to accommodate up to five more Bluetooth devices, this desktop set is a great way to make the transition from RF.
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| Microsoft Optical Desktop with Fingerprint Reader |
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Provided you use Internet Explorer, Microsoft's new Optical Desktop with Fingerprint Reader is a convenient security device. The standout application lies with online sites that require passwords: instead of always having to type them in, you can use the scanner to associate your fingerprints with various logins, saving you time, preventing you from forgetting, and ensuring security--assuming, of course, no one else gets control of your finger.
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