Microsoft has launched a keyboard and mouse combo that is one of the most feature-rich and high tech keyboard-mouse combos. It’s fully wireless, rechargeable, has backlighting, remote control tools for lap use and many, much more. It’s goes for a high price. It is designed to function as a desktop keyboard, or a lapboard for easy surfing, and it’s consists of three components: The wireless keyboard, wireless laser mouse, and a USB hub with built-in Bluetooth. Now, shall we go much deeper.

The Keyboard

The backlighting is a soft silver color and looks incredibly elegant. It can be adjusted manually via Fn keys to either turn it off, turn it down, or turn it all the way up.

The keyboard is a very attractive, made of silver plastic with metallic-looking keys arranged in a slight V configuration for comfort. It has four rechargeable AA batteries. The left-side of the keyboard features media control buttons including volume control, play/pause, channel up and down and so forth. The edge of the keyboard sports a button to activate the Vista Sidebar, a magnifier button and mouse controls for lap use.

The top of the keyboard features the usually Function keys, but there are interestingly, just little touch-sensitive areas of the keyboard rather than actual buttons. Just brush your finger on the key area to activate the function. The F1-F4 keys have shortcuts that are activated via the Fn key to open My Pictures, My Music, Internet Explorer and Live Messenger.

The right edge of the keyboard is lacking a number pad, and in its place there are buttons for Windows Media Center, a “back” button for web surfing, and a switchable touchpad that can be toggled to be touch sensitive or jus follow click commands for up, down, left and right.

The Mouse

The Wireless Laser Mouse 8000 is brilliant mouse that is wireless, rechargeable and communicates to the base station via Bluetooth. It’s a five-button mouse that includes the standard left, right and mouse buttons as well as a button on each side of the mouse. The default config has the button on the left side perform “back” while web surfing, while the button on the right defaults to a magnify window that opens when you press it. The Wireless Laser Mouse 8000 uses laser technology and features a sensitivity level of 1000dpi.

The USB Hub and Charging Station

Easily the most unique feature of this product is the small USB hub and charging station. It’s a small little brick that plugs into a USB port and is powered via an AC adapter. It features four USB ports and slides over the upper edge of the keyboard to recharge it. You can also rest the mouse on top of it to recharge the mouse. Underneath it are four powered USB ports, though one is occupied at all times by the Bluetooth receiver that the mouse uses. Here’s how it looks with everything attached.

Microsoft Wireless Entertainment Desktop 7000 (VIDEO)

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Courtesy : Amazon

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