Microsoft Wireless Media Desktop 1000

67% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

There’s a full-size keyboard with adjustable feet. It’s not advertised as ergonomic and it has no specifically ergonomic features, but for a typist who isn’t looking for any special board shape or key configuration, the keyboard works well. The...

More compact designs ; Quiet, comfortable keys and palm rests ; Useful key presets, particularly in Windows ; Laser Desktop 6000's mouse is comfortable; Media Desktop 1000 has a good wheel.- Good price for the Media Desktop 1000

Mouse wheel on the Laser Desktop 6000 is imprecise and unpleasant ; Many features are dependent on Windows, sometimes Vista alone; some are trivial ; Laser Desktop 6000 is expensive for the features difference versus the 1000 ; Media Desktop 1000 has a...

Microsoft is almost constantly revising its keyboard and desktop combos to improve their designs and feature sets, even for minor tweaks, and its newest entries -- the Wireless Laser Desktop 6000 and Wireless Media Desktop 1000 -- certainly reflect t

More affordable than Logitech's similar desktop set ; More hot keys

Uninspired hot-key placement ; Chunky, outdated design

Logitech is perhaps second only to Apple in its lean, appealing product design, so we're not surprised to find ourselves favouring the feel of its desktop set over Microsoft's. We'll admit our preference for the feel of the Logitech keyboard is a bit...

More affordable than Logitech's similar desktop set; more hot keys.

Uninspired hot-key placement; chunky, outdated design.

Microsoft's Wireless Media Desktop 1000 will provide you with a perfectly capable wireless mouse and keyboard for a more reasonable price than its competition. We just wish Microsoft would give more thought to the design and overall feel of its hardware.

Keyboard is comfortable and has many functional buttons and shortcuts; flexible IntelliPoint software facilitates lots of customisation; mouse is a good size for most hands

Annoying Windows logo on keyboard’s option key; mouse’s ratchet-style scroll wheel does not move long distances; mouse does not have horizontal scrolling; transceiver is huge

Macworld’s buying advice. If you’re on a budget and you want to replace your Apple-issue keyboard and mouse, the Microsoft Wireless Media Desktop 1000 might fill the bill if you’re not too picky. While the keyboard has a lot going for it, the mouse and...

Solid construction ; Feels good in hands ; Good for desktop use with receiver nearby

No range ; Anything that claims to operate at 2.4 Ghz should easily reach about 30 feet in direct line of sight. This does not. I'm solid at about 10 feet. After that, who knows ; At least, the sales person at the store I bought this from told me this...

Keys feel nice. Works well when it does work with the exception of the mouse wheel. Build quality seems solid

Horrible range!!! I have two of these....One works good with the receiver on a desk 3-4 feet from keyboard and mouse. The other one is limited to about a foot in range. Unacceptable and inexcusable performance for any product. I've troubleshooted...

Looks nice. *Keyword being "looks,"* light, quiet keys, nice layout and plenty of "hot keys ; I actually really liked the shape of the mouse, For a basic mouse it really wasn't that bad, ascetically, that is

Disgraceful, not to mention *DANGEROUS* construction. I actually cut myself on the edge of the keyboard... Not cool Microsoft ; Horrendous signal strength. I know it's only 27MHz frequency but come on 4 feet shouldn't be out of the scope of...