Keyboard:
Keyboard size, keystroke, the curved shape seem ideal to me. Increasing the keyboard front with the included bracket, the hands are pleasant on a pretty soft palm rest. Generally the keyboard makes a noble and high-quality impression, not least because the mentioned support slips into its holder uncomplicated by magnetic.
The battery compartments are also provided with a magnetic cover, which simply makes opening pleasant.
The serepate keypad seems to make sense to save space, but I have used it since almost not buying the keyboard.
Since it sounds, unfortunately, already on. As valuable may be the ergonomic shape, so serious hit the negative points to book.
It starts with the fact that the right half of my spacebar is a nasty, high squeak when you press it. A quick Google search to foreshadows that this is certainly not an isolated case. Since the keyboard is otherwise very quiet, bothers me that sound when you tap enormous.
Next, the layout - here playful keyboard all my tolerance.
First, one has to bear in mind that the layout, I'm talking about is not the one of the product picture, as some changes can be found in the German layout. The most serious: the left shift key is shrinking in favor of additional "|" button on the smallest key size of the keyboard, only half as wide as the "Caps Lock" key. Mir is too small. To the umlauts was accommodate pushed around in the area of the enter key, however, seems to me the more problematic. Obviously, other layout was given here not a high priority in planning.
To navigate through program code, I often use the arrow keys, and End keys Pos1 and the scroll keys. These have been completely banned in the layout to the edge, and there aligned completely homogeneous. They do not provide special feel, to feel around, to which key is: Distances and arrangement are completely equal, a highlight as on the F and J key does not exist. Just because these buttons require by their location on the keyboard lifting and moving the right hand, my error rate is significantly higher in these keys. It is not understandable to me why the "visually appealing", uniform arrangement of the keys has been brought forward without separate spaces a sensible arrangement. A distance of half width keys or other tactile characteristic would have been enough to make the "buttons Islands" well be felt and recognizable for motor memory.
Also incomprehensible is my step-like arrangement of the keys on the left half. Taking the right-hand man in convenient angle to the keyboard, so you can reach through the simple buckling movement of the fingers easily the appropriate button in the upper or lower row of keys. If you try this move on the left half, so the finger lands in the key gap because the staircase arrangement is not symmetrical, but also here to the "left upstairs" goes. An additional lateral movement of the left finger is necessary. Why is the button layout is not symmetrical for both hands? After all, these are also symmetrical on the keyboard, and if my bio-knowledge is still correct, the hands have no differences in bone and muscle structure. (Yes: The make "normal" keyboards also But this here is supposed to be ergonomic..)
Finally, the combined Fn and multimedia keys are to call at the top. There is no Fn key, but a slide switch in the upper right corner of the keyboard. This is the smallest (!) operating element around the keyboard, and from a sitting position in front of the keyboard can not reliably detect the position in which this is. I have to actually prevent to make sure that it is in the correct position, if I want to press for example, Alt-F4 or similar combinations - just in my programming environment I have to do often; but I also like to steer with the keyboard my music. An unmitigated disaster. Even if you try, simple Always operate the switch, and then press the function key, you have enormous reusable because it can be pushed through its secluded location not conveniently located near the function keys. Sensing the position of the switch can be hardly to not at all. For special scorn perched next to the toggle switch to "Calculator" button - bigger, easier to achieve, but unfortunately a lot of useless.
The gap between the keyboard halves makes from this point in a bad mood. Apparently, yes there was not enough space to accommodate everything clever, but in the middle of media buttons would certainly have had a very, very good position. At least one FN key in the upper, central area would have been an enrichment - could be so sure-handed use the function keys and media keys (!). Instead, there is this stylish cut.
Conclusion: obviously different interests were involved in this keyboard. The form seems ergonomically, but everything else suffers from the optical design of the keyboard.
For mouse!
The mouse is large and offers - at least in my hand - a good grip shape. The material of the thumb rest is pleasant.
The material of the mouse buttons feels not good. In my eyes (and hands) affects the glossy plastic cheap. In addition, it smeared quickly. The key click is relatively loud and sounds like 10 year old office on mice, feels the touch for good. The scroll wheel is serving and has no special features.
Under the Windows key has a thumb button. This has a much higher pressure point as the two mouse buttons - so high that I need to stabilize the mouse with the little finger, so they do not wobble when I press this button sideways. This attitude does not seem to take tensed ergonomically me. Since I work on three monitors, even the occasional lifting and placing new mouse is inevitable. Here, one finds that it has a relatively large weight. As long as the mouse rarely needs new positioning, but this will hardly be noticeable.
I find it a pity that the good base is made of so many small defects canceled out. I see this set just as in good hands, where the user wants to do little more than write texts, surfing, listening to music - that in turn is good, the tap makes almost fun. As long as the space bar does not squeak.
For me at least, the keyboard will not find a new home - I do not too much money, that some aspects of, for example, programming work are counterproductive.
