Computer Attempts To Find Keyboard Layout

This label maker has a standard computer keyboard layout which made it much easier to use then its predecessors.

After several attempts to purchase a computer from Apple directly with upgrades, I contacted B&H and had it in less than 48 hours... great service and the Apple MacBook Pro M1 chip is exceeding my expectations so far. WinWin with B&H... Loose Loose with Apple sales.

At the lowest price I could find for a controller keyboard, the Korg nanoKey2 is very impressive. It only has twenty-five keys, but the octave shift buttons allow you to change the octave up and down, giving reach to the full range of notes for electronic music. It has neat pitch bend, sustain, and vibrato buttons, too. It resembles a computer keyboard in the flatness and shape of the keys and is even smaller than a computer keyboard. It works great with my electronic music software. It even picks up musical accent (velocity); so the harder you press the keys, the louder it is, and the softer you press the keys, the quieter it is. The only thing that would make it better is if it had sounds of its own. However, it serves its purpose as a Musical Instrument Digital Interface controller well. It comes with a software code so you can download some electronic music programs from the Internet; so if you do not have music software already, you can get some to use with the nanoKey2. The cable that it comes with stays in the socket very tightly and it will not fall out so easily. This is good so it will not disconnect on accident. Overall, the Korg nanoKey2 is a good buy for being able to listen to, experiment with, and record sounds in audio software without having to use the computer mouse and computer keyboard all the time to program commands and test out sounds. It is light-weight and its slim-line design is very convenient and saves space. It would be good for use with a laptop on the go. I find it a nice addition to my desktop home studio. It is perfect in function for its size. Very neat.

I love this keyboard. When using my computer late at night I no longer have to turn on my desk lamp to see the keys on the keyboard, which I find a really big plus. The keys themselves feel nice to the touch, which makes typing all that more enjoyable, and setup was fairly easy. I use the term fairly because I had to go to the Logitech website to download the Windows 7 64bit driver which were surprisingly easy to find and install, and the programming of the keys was very easy, but not necessary.

Regardless of the features, this is far & away the best keyboard I've ever used: The perfect layout of the buttons, the excellent feedback and feel of the action, the clarity & elegance of the graphics, the so-solid heft of this thing. And if you do your computing in a cave, I guess the illumination is useful; otherwise it's just cool.

Great keyboard for an excellent price, I like the classic layout in particular, more productive than most of the keyboards I’ve used recently. The mouse also fells good and is very accurate. I would recommend this product.

(This review was collected as part of a promotion.) Excellent layout and feel. Both keyboard and mouse are comfortable to use for extended period of time. Pleased with purchase.

Amazing keyboard. Uses the same Logi Bolt receiver (unlike the non-business version) as my MX Master 3 mouse, meaning only one USB port is being used for 2 devices, or zero if I want to use Bluetooth. And I don't notice any lag with either connection technology. Key travel and feel is very nice. Ergonomics are spot on. The only way I could be more comfortable is if it was split into 2 pieces so I could spread my hands even wider. I kinda like the different function key layout compared to the non-business version as well. I like to keep the F keys active because I use them pretty often, so this new layout has the volume up/down keys on non-F-keys so I don't need to switch off F-keys to use them. The one thing I'd like to see changed, though is the Home/End/Delete/P Up/P Down buttons. I wish they were arranged like the K350 keyboard. I used that keyboard for a long time and always thought the layout of those keys on that keyboard made so much more sense. This isn't worth docking stars from this keyboard, though, because very very very few keyboards use that layout.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] There are darn few wired keyboards (PS/2 or USB) remaining with a full stroke length and the PROPER key layout. No, I don't want chiclet keys -- I actually touch-type. I type a LOT. I need a keyboard that is accurate, has good rollover support (if you don't type quickly by touch you don't understand why this matters) and I want a WIRED keyboard because the latency on the wireless ones drives me insane. DELL used to have some good ones, but no more. This appears to fit the bill. So far, so good -- I did just get it, so only four stars since I can't yet speak to reliability, but in terms of the "N" key feature it's there or I'd know it INSTANTLY, and the layout and stroke is good. This is a rubber dome, rather than clicky-ratchet switch keyboard. If you're a hard-core keyboardist you understand the difference -- but unfortunately, the cherry ratchet-style switches are simply not found anymore unless you get into the specialty market (think the original IBM PC keyboards.) Then again the ratchet switches are LOUD; these are not. It's a flat layout rather than cupped or curved. Curved won't work with my desk which has a palm rest on the keyboard drawer already; I'd love to find a cupped unit, but they are unobtanium; nobody makes them any more. Oh well. Nonetheless the feel is good, the stroke is full and standard and the cord is blessedly long enough to reach, without an extension, a PC on a desk (through the back or a wiring channel) and maybe on the floor next to you. That's a nice touch too -- most wired USB keyboards have woefully short cords, and even some PS/2 style ones do as well. For the money this is impossible to beat if you want a real keyboard with a standard layout and all full-size, real full-travel keys. I'm sticking another one in my closet in case these wind up no longer available.

This keyboard is all I need: it has proper full size layout, it has dedicated multimedia keys and having all that it wastes no space on my desk as it practically bazel-less. It comes along with a useless mouse which I care not about. It also comes with a nano receiver which means I can't pair this keyboard to an existing unifying receiver; it can only work with the included nano receiver. I wonder what will I do if I lose that receiver. I give it 5 stars because the keyboard itself is the best I could find out there for the price.