Microsoft® Digital Media Pro Keyboard
September 24, 2004
Company:
Microsoft Corporation, www.microsoft.com
The Hardware
| Model |
Microsoft® Digital Media Pro Keyboard |
| Key Features |
The Digital Media Pro Keyboard features a new Zoom Slider that lets you zoom in
and out of documents and pictures with ease. Customizable My Favorites keys,
Media Center, and Hot Keys give you one-touch access to commonly accessed media,
programs, and files. |
| Additional Features |
- Zoom Slider - Easily zoom in on pictures, maps, documents, and Web
pages—without taking your hand off the keyboard.
- Multimedia center - It’s easy to access your favorite music, video clips, and
media programs with the press of a key.
- My Favorites keys - Five customizable keys are as easy to set as your car
radio, so you can enjoy convenient, one-key access to your favorite Web sites
and files.
- Enhanced F-key versatility - Open documents or reply to e-mail messages at the touch of
a button. For more flexibility, toggle between standard and enhanced F-key
commands.
- Sleep and logoff keys - To save energy and protect your data, you can simply put
your computer in sleep mode or log off completely by pressing a single
key.
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| MSRP |
$29.95 |
| Rating |
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The Microsoft® Digital Media Pro Keyboard is very similar to the
Microsoft® Wireless Optical Desktop Elite keyboard in functionality. This keyboard
came packaged without a mouse and is not wireless. Functionally, it is very similar. It also
has a large selection of buttons on the top ridge. The only real difference is on the left side.
This keyboard has a zoom slider mounted to the left that lets you quickly zoom in
or out on your currently active document. In theory this seems great. In practice I
didn't find it that useful. At some point in using this keyboard my kids had played with
the slider. When I returned to the computer, my fonts were all enlarged in my browser. I
couldn't figure out what they had done. Finally it dawned on me that they had zoomed in
with the slider. At that point it was very easy to reduce it back down. I guess if you were
working with a lot of images and were needing to zoom in and out as you did so, this feature
would be very useful to you, I on the other hand found it to be just taking up space. I do
like the look of this keyboard. It has a nice silver body with black keys. Very
stylish looking at home or in the office.
Pros:
- Very versatile keyboard with usable features.
- Nice looking keyboard.
Cons:
- Do not like the zoom slider.
Continue reading about the hardware in this series of articles:
Introduction
Microsoft® Wireless Optical Desktop Elite
Microsoft® MultiMedia Keyboard
Microsoft® IntelliMouse® Explorer
Microsoft® IntelliMouse® Optical 1.1
Adding It All Up
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