Comments on: Review: Wireless Laser Desktop 7000

By: SouthWind22

SouthWind22 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:07:07 +0000

I’m looking for all these wonderful safari based applications to go native for the iphone. ,

By: Cathy Moya

Cathy Moya — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:39:13 +0000

Ah, OK. Yeah, I hear you on the grouping. I don’t game, so finding them quickly for a Word or Excel doc hasn’t been issue for me. The left Ctrl doesn’t bother me, but my hands are pretty small. I just wanted to make sure you (or your readers) hadn’t gotten tripped up in the icons on the F keys. When I got stuck there (long before I came to this group), I was going nuts until my husband noticed and explained it to me. Anyway, thanks for writing back. :-)

By: Devin Coldewey

Devin Coldewey — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:00:19 +0000

Thanks for chiming in… the f-lock thing can certainly be handy, but my bigger problem was with the keyboard not having separated f-keys. there’s no non-visual solution to finding which key you’re going for; groups of four correspond to natural groupings of numbers in our mind for the numbers 1-12 – 12 keys in a row is too large of a “chunk” as they call it in cognitive science. :)

By: Jim Kelaher

Jim Kelaher — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:06:18 +0000

I bought the Wireless Laser 7000 as I frequently upgrade my keyboard as I type a lot. Unfortunately, I don’t know why but frequently it seems the key sticks, and very, very unfortunately it stuck once as I deleted an e-mail from my Outlook. Before I knew it, my entire In-box had been deleted. In typing a letter, it frequently types the wrong letter, or if I type one letter it types two different letters. I’m going to have to look to see where I got it (probably either Buy.com or Amazon.com and see if they will replace it. The keyboard itself may not be defective, it may be other 2.4ghz interference. The Entertainment 7000 keyboard I have on another computer did the exact same thing (that’s Blue Tooth) until I disabled the Blue Tooth function on my cell phone. Overall, it’s a terrifically comfortable keyboard, looks sharp, and taks up very little desktop space.

By: Cathy Moya

Cathy Moya — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:24:23 +0000

Hey, you can still hit Alt-F4 to close a window, F5 to refresh, etc. You just have to make sure the F-Lock key is ON. It’s the key between F12 and PrtScrn. When it’s toggled ON you get the F1 keys like edit and refresh, and when it’s toggled OFF you get the alternate keys like undo and open file. You should see a little pop up near the clock in the taskbar when you toggle the state.

Disclosure: I work in Microsoft Hardware. I use this keyboard/mouse set and I love it. (It lured me away from the split keyboard I was using.) But I, too, get caught in the F Lock key thing from time to time.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:29:50 +0000

I purchased the MS Wireless Laser Desktop 7000 set 2 weeks ago and have been experiencing intermittent “lock up” periods lasting from a few seconds to almost 1 minute, approx 2-3 times per day. I have tried using the gear with the USB transceiver plugged into the front of PC, back of PC, via USB Hub, and also on desktop via USB extension cable, but the lock-ups continue. Microsoft claims the 2.4GHz mini-transceiver connects right out of the box with virtually no interference and provides up to 30-foot range. Not this one. I purchased thru CDW so I have contacted them and they are going to send me a replacement unit, hopefully that one works better, otherwise back to old tech version.

By: Devin Coldewey

Devin Coldewey — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:53:20 +0000

You’re absolutely right, I’m sorry. Of course, it’s so incredibly obvious that I figure a lefty would see the picture and instantly just barf at how right-handed the thing is. Thanks for pointing that out, and I hope some designers take your advice.

By: c

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:22:31 +0000

Good review but you overlooked that the mouse (which sound dysfunctional, anyway) would be totally dysfunctional to someone that was left handed. The mouse reeks of Art Center/Pasadena (Art Gulag) that pushes function should follow design. It is so frustrating for the 10% left handed in society to deal with bad design. Also I’d like to point out the $ loss to business because it might be a great product but if I can’t use it comfortably, I’m not going to by it. To designers, could I recommend designing from the ground up to allow a simple (I.E., inexpensive) fascia that could be swapped out for left or right handed use or for large or small handed. Sadly, ergonomic centric designers seem to design just for themselves.