The part of this keyboard that drives me nuts is the way they laid out the little grid of keys between the main board and the number pad. This is where you’ll find the Page Up/Down, Home, End, Insert, and Delete keys. On every other keyboard I’ve ever used, the Page Up and Down keys are on top of each other, but on this board they are side by side. Logically and ergonomically, that doesn’t make sense! The Insert key is also very close to the Enter key, so it’s pretty easy to bump on accident.
This is a pretty noisy keyboard, too. The buttons feel kind of loose to the touch, and the act of typing fast sounds like rolling dice across a table. I’m used to the more discreet keyboards that don’t announce to the room when you are typing something. Luckily, I’m using this at my home office so nobody but me ever really hears it, but I don’t like hearing it.
One thing about this keyboard that really aggravates me is that I sometimes out-type it. I type really fast, and this stupid keyboard is constantly just sending one key when I double tap, like when I am typing two L's in 'really' or two M's in 'common'. I constantly have to go back and fix the mistake. This keyboard simply doesn't perform. I've never seen one that couldn't keep up with the typist until I tried this thing.
Ultimately, I will probably keep this keyboard until I find some excuse to replace it with a better one. It gets the job done for now, but the noisiness combined with the odd key layout and missed keystrokes just don’t make it a very good choice. As I mentioned earlier, it was my only choice at the time, otherwise I would have gotten something much better.
The KB565BL Micro Innovations keyboard currently retails for $24.38 on Amazon.com.