I am now on the list for Microsoft Hardware apparently so all I got in
terms of information about this particular guy here is that this is
model number 1482 of a keyboard made by
Microsoft okay this is the 3xj
000019 in terms of the part number and it comes in a brown box this is a
Microsoft keyboard which has a bit of a wave to it let's go ahead and take the
uh plastic covering off here and hopefully at some point we will be able
to find out exactly what this model is ah here we go so apparently what I have
to unbox and take a look at today is the Microsoft Comfort Curve keyboard 3000
for business so that is what Ms part
number X 8221 34-5 is look at that the manufacturing
date is like less Le than a month ago very cool all right so let's have a look
at this here product and see if Microsoft includes anything else of note
in the packaging so we do have a product guide with important safety and health
information as well as a limited warranty in terms of warranty I wouldn't
worry too much oh okay keyboard in uh 3 years
neat okay and and the thing about Microsoft Hardware warranty is that it
is actually one of the best in the biz they are there are me very very very
many testimonials out there on the inar
webs about how Microsoft takes care of their Hardware customers when something
goes wrong with a Microsoft keyboard mouse headset joystick whatever the case
may be so let's have a look at the layout overall I was actually one of the
uh shoot what was that thing called I
think it was called the Microsoft natural keyboard that that old old one
that was made of like you know beige old computer colored plastic and it had the
split in the middle right so when you're using it you're like this click clickity
clickity everyone hated it when it first
came out um well everyone I knew I mean there are lots of people who swear by
those those those ergonomic style keyboards but I loved it I had one of
those original Microsoft ones that I used for years and this is more like an
in between so you don't have that split down the middle of the keyboard but you
can see if you look at it in an angle it does have a bit of a curve so why did I
like it so much I liked it because this
when you're when you're in your Arms This shape I'm going to point them at
you is a lot more natural than this in terms of your shoulders and the
alignment of your arms so they put a slight curve to this keyboard so that
you're actually holding your hands in a more comfortable position while you type
while keeping the keys all together so you don't have that weird on natural
split because remember not everyone types correctly although using that
keyboard was one of the ways that fixed my incorrect typing where I was reaching
over to the other side of the keyboard whenever it was conven venient because the split didn't allow me to do it so
this guy right here just has a slight curve so it's an in between a flat
keyboard and a large ergonomic style
keyboard that's what I where I was trying to go with that now in terms of
the layout we've got a pretty standard layout Microsoft hasn't committed any
cardinal sins on this keyboard so you can see we have a fullsize tab very long
shift key in order to make sure that you can reach it like no matter what look
how long that shift key is it's like the longest key on the keyboard than space
bar okay we do have a fullsize backspace key
full size Enter key and another long shift key look at these shift Keys
they're like monstrosities okay we haven't moved around any of the critical
Keys we have nice large delete key home end page up page down are all in their
correct locations the scroll lock insert and insert I like this one up here
because having the insert up here means that sometimes you can accidentally
press it when you meant backspace or you meant delete and then you end up typing over your stuff and it compounds a small
error and turns it into a much much larger error
uh We've also only got one Windows key so there's a Windows key here and then
the other one is a function key so using the function key we can access keys that
we otherwise can't access like pause and it looks like that's
actually the only thing it does no it couldn't
be must be fascinating okay we do have a
number pad layout a number lock and we have a couple media Keys as well so we
can access the calculator that's good for business we can also play pause
reduce the volume and increase the volume of the music that we are
listening to in our office which is bothering the others next to
us and that is pretty much all that I
have to say about it so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look
at the Comfort Curve 3000 from Microsoft don't forget to subscribe for more
unboxings reviews and other computer videos o and here's another useful
feature so it actually shows you see there's a little star on the control and
it shows you what all of these hot Keys actually do so you don't even have to
think about it at all look at that I didn't even know Windows d goes to the
desktop see look and Windows e goes to my PC I know most of these other ones
though