Kensington Ci70 Wired Keyboard with USB Ports, Mini-USB Connector
Product Description
The keyboard with connections! The Kensington Ci70 Keyboard has two built-in USB 2.0 ports and a mini-USB connector to help you sync your digital photos, videos and music. The sleek, low-profile design fits into your life while also optimizing your space. Subtle upgrades make all the difference, including soft-touch keys that offer a crisp, responsive touch for added comfort, and a sliding door that offers a nice, finished look. PC and Mac Compatible. In Black…. More >>
Kensington Ci70 Wired Keyboard with USB Ports, Mini-USB Connector
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February 18th, 2010 at 10:21 pm
The unit arrived with a Tab key that did not function. The over all typing experience is sluggish. I have contacted Kensington for a replacement to the DOA keyboard and they claim this is a discontinued model. I am waiting to see what they replace it with.
Rating: 1 / 5
February 18th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
I bought this keyboard to go with a new mac mini. It’s been excellent so far. It has a great laptop-type feel, and the hidden mini-usb is great…..one less wire on my desk. Highly recommended.
Rating: 5 / 5
February 19th, 2010 at 12:53 am
I was nervous buying a keyboard sight unseen, I based my decision on the size and integrated USB. I needed a smaller keyboard but didn’t want to give up having a numeric keypad. The keyboard is pretty much everything I was looking for, I am only disappointed that there is no caps lock indicator. I find this slightly annoying and the reason I did not give it 5 stars.
Rating: 4 / 5
February 19th, 2010 at 1:36 am
This is a fine keyboard with s unique design. The keys are very close to that of a high quality laptop, but actually feel better than even the best ThinkPad. To me, this design is far better than the traditional desktop keyboards that are hard, noisy and have a long key trip to make typing laborious. There are many keyboards that emulate the more gentle laptop style, but this one is the closest. Some other keyboards have a design that is somewhere in the middle of the laptop and desktop. Macally USB Slim Keyboard – ICEKEY is an example. This not to say one is better than the other. It would depend on your preference. The Macally is a great keyboard itself, and many may find it the ideal type because it strikes a sweet spot between laptop and desktop keyboards.
The built-in USB hub, including the attached mini USB cable is a great feature.
A few complaints I have are listed below.
(1)Lacks a cap-luck indicator. I thought I would get used to that, but I never did. It frequently causes confusion.
(2) The quality of the letters painted on the keys is questionable. I’ve been using this for less than a year rather infrequently, already the letter of one of the keys has completely disappeared and become unrecognizable.
(3) This is not a genuine full-size keyboard. There are many “slim” or “compact” type keyboards which are on the other hand full-size keyboards having standard key layout. This one is not. The keyboard is not as wide as a full-size keyboard, and for that reason, some of the keys are arranged differently. Although it does have a separate number entry pad, the arrow keys, page keys, and the home key are placed together with the main keys. This will take some getting used to.
(4) Especially, the backspace key and the Home key are placed together, with the latter being at the edge. As a result, the most frequently used backspace key is no longer at the right end of the main key group, but the Home key is. This makes it much harder to find the backspace key, and may cause a significant change in your typing habit. I still find myself keep reaching to the “home” key when I actually want backspace key. This causes frequent confusion in operation.
(5) There are five multimedia keys to control a media player, but unforgivably not a mute key, which I believe is absolutely the most useful among these media keys. More often, I find the webpage I’m visiting suddenly starts to make a loud and unwelcome sound and need to be turned off immediately. A mute key would be a great solution to this. Try to do that in Windows. Even if you’re familiar with the audio controls, it’ll take almost a minute to mute the sound, which is just too long to bear in a situation like that.
Rating: 3 / 5
February 19th, 2010 at 3:20 am
I use this keyboard with a Mac, and have really enjoyed it. I like the firmness of the key response, the low / flat profile, and especially the fact that it has two USB ports on the keyboard (especially with Macs, you need all the extra USB ports you can get) — and even the extra mini USB to be able to plug my camera directly into the keyboard to download photos.
The only “annoyance” so far is the lack of a light on the “caps lock” button to show when that key is engaged — tho needless to say that becomes obvious immediately!
Rating: 4 / 5