Microsoft Comfort Curve 3000 For Business Keyboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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I am now on the list for Microsoft Hardware apparently so all I got in
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terms of information about this particular guy here is that this is
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model number 1482 of a keyboard made by
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Microsoft okay this is the 3xj
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000019 in terms of the part number and it comes in a brown box this is a
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Microsoft keyboard which has a bit of a wave to it let's go ahead and take the
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uh plastic covering off here and hopefully at some point we will be able
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to find out exactly what this model is ah here we go so apparently what I have
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to unbox and take a look at today is the Microsoft Comfort Curve keyboard 3000
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for business so that is what Ms part
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number X 8221 34-5 is look at that the manufacturing
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date is like less Le than a month ago very cool all right so let's have a look
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at this here product and see if Microsoft includes anything else of note
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in the packaging so we do have a product guide with important safety and health
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information as well as a limited warranty in terms of warranty I wouldn't
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worry too much oh okay keyboard in uh 3 years
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neat okay and and the thing about Microsoft Hardware warranty is that it
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is actually one of the best in the biz they are there are me very very very
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many testimonials out there on the inar
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webs about how Microsoft takes care of their Hardware customers when something
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goes wrong with a Microsoft keyboard mouse headset joystick whatever the case
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may be so let's have a look at the layout overall I was actually one of the
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uh shoot what was that thing called I
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think it was called the Microsoft natural keyboard that that old old one
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that was made of like you know beige old computer colored plastic and it had the
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split in the middle right so when you're using it you're like this click clickity
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clickity everyone hated it when it first
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came out um well everyone I knew I mean there are lots of people who swear by
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those those those ergonomic style keyboards but I loved it I had one of
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those original Microsoft ones that I used for years and this is more like an
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in between so you don't have that split down the middle of the keyboard but you
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can see if you look at it in an angle it does have a bit of a curve so why did I
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like it so much I liked it because this
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when you're when you're in your Arms This shape I'm going to point them at
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you is a lot more natural than this in terms of your shoulders and the
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alignment of your arms so they put a slight curve to this keyboard so that
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you're actually holding your hands in a more comfortable position while you type
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while keeping the keys all together so you don't have that weird on natural
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split because remember not everyone types correctly although using that
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keyboard was one of the ways that fixed my incorrect typing where I was reaching
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over to the other side of the keyboard whenever it was conven venient because the split didn't allow me to do it so
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this guy right here just has a slight curve so it's an in between a flat
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keyboard and a large ergonomic style
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keyboard that's what I where I was trying to go with that now in terms of
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the layout we've got a pretty standard layout Microsoft hasn't committed any
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cardinal sins on this keyboard so you can see we have a fullsize tab very long
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shift key in order to make sure that you can reach it like no matter what look
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how long that shift key is it's like the longest key on the keyboard than space
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bar okay we do have a fullsize backspace key
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full size Enter key and another long shift key look at these shift Keys
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they're like monstrosities okay we haven't moved around any of the critical
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Keys we have nice large delete key home end page up page down are all in their
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correct locations the scroll lock insert and insert I like this one up here
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because having the insert up here means that sometimes you can accidentally
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press it when you meant backspace or you meant delete and then you end up typing over your stuff and it compounds a small
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error and turns it into a much much larger error
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uh We've also only got one Windows key so there's a Windows key here and then
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the other one is a function key so using the function key we can access keys that
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we otherwise can't access like pause and it looks like that's
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actually the only thing it does no it couldn't
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be must be fascinating okay we do have a
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number pad layout a number lock and we have a couple media Keys as well so we
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can access the calculator that's good for business we can also play pause
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reduce the volume and increase the volume of the music that we are
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listening to in our office which is bothering the others next to
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us and that is pretty much all that I
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have to say about it so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look
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at the Comfort Curve 3000 from Microsoft don't forget to subscribe for more
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unboxings reviews and other computer videos o and here's another useful
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feature so it actually shows you see there's a little star on the control and
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it shows you what all of these hot Keys actually do so you don't even have to
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think about it at all look at that I didn't even know Windows d goes to the
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desktop see look and Windows e goes to my PC I know most of these other ones
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though