Microsoft Arc Wireless Keyboard Review
Filed Under (Featured products, Review) by Lydia Yu on 03-09-2010
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Microsoft had already publicly announced Arc foldable wireless mouse early in 2008. At that time, the whole industry was shocked by the modeling as Mantis paw of the mouse. Microsoft Arc Wireless Keyboard, a newly launched product early this year is the newest version of keyboard shocked people again.
Package of Microsoft Arc Wireless Keyboard.
Still the Classical packaging: White with Red, which makes Microsoft Arc Wireless Keyboard stands out among others in package.
Mysterious Arc Wireless Keyboard showing its face from Exquisite Package.
After unpacked, Arc wireless Keyboard is covered with an unwoven cloth. From that, we can see that Microsoft is attentive on the packaging of products, and Arc Keyboard is really precious for this kind of packaging would not be used for common keyboards.
Microsoft Arc Wireless Keyboard starting to show off its body.
Microsoft Arc Wireless Keyboard fully showing stylish appearance.
Dimension of Microsoft Arc Wireless Keyboard.
Size: 311 × 153mm
Thickness: 20mm
Weight: 350g
It can be said that Microsoft Arc Wireless Keyboard is a very cute product with keys that having compact and moderate distribution. Now let’s go on to have comprehensive understanding of Microsoft Arc Wireless Keyboard.
Microsoft Arc Wireless Keyboard features stylish shaping integrated with ergonomics; Fabulous hand feeling.
Microsoft Arc Wireless Keyboard adopts 2.4G wireless technology, with effective use distance about 10 meters. Compact key arrangement of Arc Wireless Keyboard clearly reflects ergonomics, thus very handy.
Microsoft Arc Wireless keyboard adopts the ultra-thin body design, short key caps and distance, light hand feeling. Since Microsoft Arc Wireless keyboard has adopted the non-traditional square design, the arrangement of keys is in an arced line with an arced surface. The design of Arc Wireless keyboard is similar to that of other keyboards of Microsoft in the past like ergonomic keyboard 4000, for they comply with ergonomic design in principle.
For this arc-shaped structure, I here want to stress that, although Microsoft Arc Wireless keyboard showed a certain degree of curvature on the surface, the bottom is very flat. So you need not worry about placing the stability of Arc Wireless keyboard.
Close-up on receiver of Arc Wireless keyboard.
Microsoft Arc Wireless keyboard powered by two AAA batteries. There are four soft cushions at the bottom of Arc to ensure the stability of the Arc wireless keyboard.
Microsoft Arc Wireless Keyboard with film structure, ultra-thin designed keys, and comfortable hand feeling. The shape of keys of Microsoft Arc Wireless Keyboard tends to be a floating design. So the keys should be chocolate buttons.
Arc Wireless Keyboard sports floating-designed keys，which is very comfortable to touch.
Microsoft Arc Wireless Keyboard provides a unique direction key, which combines the traditional functions of key up / down and key left / right in one, users can drag the page up and down by pressing it, but not able to achieve the movement of the mouse.
Functions of rich Fn combination keys.
As the size of Microsoft Arc Wireless keyboard is significantly compressed, there must be some reduction in key design. As a result, the users must press Fn combination keys more frequently if they get need.
Work as well as games, excellent compatibility.
Daily office work: Text entry and editing.
During daily office work, Microsoft Arc Wireless Keyboard takes advantage of the feeling of lightness. In the process of lasting 4 hours’ use, the Arc keyboard has not any problem in the text entry, but with the functions as the direction keys, then it does not need to go with the mouse in text editing. Clicking the bottom function keys which is right of the keyboard is able to drag up and down easily.
During the test, Microsoft Arc Wireless Keyboard supports 7 keys conflict-free. It can be said that the typing performance of Arc Wireless Keyboard is quite good. And for the commonly used key combinations can all works, such as W+shift+Number key etc. Even you can Pk some of the games with the colleagues.
Through this evaluation, I believe that Microsoft Arc Wireless Keyboard can be regarded as a highly portable business keyboard. The appearance of fashion and personality is well suited for laptop. Arc tends to the traditional keyboard functions, but the multi-function keys set to greatly reduce the dependence on the mouse. So we can say Microsoft Arc Wireless Keyboard is quite helpful and good laptop.
