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this is the Microsoft Arc it's not out yet but we do have a sample here to show

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you today this is a wireless style that

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works that's their little slogan for it wireless PC and Mac keyboard and their

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their thing is okay yeah that it's style that works so it's a stylish small

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little keyboard that's meant to be I would imagine well here's what I would

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use it for okay I'm not going to tell you what it's for cuz I don't know what

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they intend it for but I would use this from the couch to control my media

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center because it's exactly the kind of size that you can comfortably put it in

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your lap but still be able to comfortably type actually we'll find out

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if we can comfortably type once I actually get it out of the box but okay

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here we go why don't we see what what Microsoft has to say about it meet the

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art keyboard with beautiful curves and a compact design it's at home wherever you

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are okay so in my case on the couch excellent you can show it off clean

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lines and an ey catching shape complement your style here there

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anywhere something about using it anywhere and be free also something

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about using it anywhere they have a little picture of the Nano transceiver

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for wireless Freedom okay so let's find

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the seals and I do not have anything even

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remotely resembling a knife on

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me uh okay here hold on actually just a sec I have a fork and I will just use

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that to pierce the sticker and then hopefully the whole sticker will come

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away from for me and then we'll go from there or I could just peel the sticker

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bear with me here just going to peel the sticker up because my Fork has lasagna

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on it and I think that that would be um

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not quite sanitary especially because like well you know old lasagna

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isn't really a very sanitary thing to put on stuff that's my wisdom for the

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day okay so here we are it is covered in

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a little cloth sheath that is to protect it from scratches I'm assuming and also

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to make the presentation of this is actually excellent look at this so you

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open up your box you get a little sheath

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pocket envelope thing here made of like a nice clothy material then you get oh

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this is nice so this is would be a CD and probably your user's guide start

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here helpfully labeled even so you right

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here so this must be a quick start guide so they show you how to put in the

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batteries put in the wireless trans Seer and then press the buttons in order to

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link it up oh cool oh that's a neat system so basically to turn the keyboard

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oh okay to turn the keyboard on or off press and hold function and Escape until

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the battery light changes and then

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that's it huh need do

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okay then you've got a Microsoft product guide here which probably include some

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warranty information as well okay two AAA batteries not a big fan of AAA

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batteries but when you're trying to make a device as compact as possible

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sometimes it's unavoidable it's just that they're sort of they're more as

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expensive as doublea's and you don't get more battery life out of them etc etc

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they're not really my favorite thing but let's get this Arc keyboard out of here

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oh that is nice actually so you can see it has a slight curve to it hence the

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name Arc and on the bottom is a cleverly designed little compartment for the D or

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AAA batteries see now I'm all screwed up for the AAA batteries and then right

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here is the little Nano transer is that

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I love it held in by a magnet look at that so you never have to worry

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about it coming out as long as you know

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you don't have a a curious toddler that

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comes along and eats it anyway that's really convenient and then the top of

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the keyboard itself so I'm going to apologize in advance for the crot shot

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here I'm just going to go ahead and put this on my lap and actually that's not

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bad you you can comfortably reach all the buttons it is a very standard layout

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so you can see that you've got long shift keys on both sides you've got a long enter key so it doesn't have any of

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the weird bilingual keys that cut off your shift or um the the strangely

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located slash key that would cut your backs space down to the point where I

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mean if you have small hands reaching a back space beyond about here is

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completely unreasonable so yeah I I personally hate the short backspace key

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you've got all of your function keys no

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you do not oh this is interesting okay in order to save space what they've done

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with the layout is a they've only got one Windows key so there's no Windows

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key on the right hand side that's a function key oh and this appears to be a

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mouse that is something I didn't know that oh no these are your arrows okay so

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here are all the things that they've managed to make more compact they've

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removed a Windows key put in a function key they've turned the control the right

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control into the arrow keys which is a on dpad button okay then up here they've

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actually got f F1 to F6 and then you use

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the function key in order to access F7 to F12 great that works for me and then

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we've got all of our home and page up page down and print screen all in four

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buttons right here and then they've even included media buttons so you've got

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mute louder and quieter and then delete and insert but no no play stop pause

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that's a little bit disappointing given what I personally would be using

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something like this for but I mean really if you have a media center you should probably own one of these already

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anyway it's like the most useful $15 or

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whatever it costs that I've ever spent on a hardware component in fact I own

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three anyway thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the arc I

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still think the coolest feature is the magnetic transceiver that's so cool

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thank you again for checking out my unboxing of the Microsoft Arc