Microsoft Comfort Curve Desktop 3000 for Business

• It's familiar, yet modern - All the keys are the same size and in a familiar place, even with the Comfort Curve. The slim, glossy design saves space and makes a statement on your desktop.
• Ergonomist-approved Comfort Curve design - The Microsoft® Comfort Curve encourages natural wrist posture, plus it is easy to use.
• Easy-access media keys - Control your music and videos, and open the Calculator with the touch of a key.
• Comfort and customization - Rubber side grips and a contoured shape for either hand let you work in comfort. Give yourself some shortcuts with three customizable buttons.
• BlueTrack Technology - Works on virtually any surface in your home, office, or anywhere in between.
• Ergonomist-approved Comfort Curve design - The Microsoft Comfort Curve encourages natural wrist posture, plus it is easy to use.
• Itis familiar, yet modern - All the keys are the same size and in a familiar place, even with the Comfort Curve. The slim, glossy design saves space and makes a statement on your desktop.

The curve shape is nice, lightweight and somewhat compact. Some Windows standard shortcuts are printed on the keys which I like. It also has media keys which is great. The keyboard seems more durable than previous versions. However, the keys themselves are shallow and cylindrical in shape rather than concave. Fingers lose sense of its row positioning up and down. Some of the keys are even flat. Why is there a trend for flatter keys now? They don't help anyone type better. It's more prone to typing errors. I have to look down at the keyboard from time to time to see if my fingers are on the right keys. But get this ... MS removed the Break key function on this model and a few others now! What are they thinking? It's for business but you can't use Win+Break to get to the System Dialog anymore. Break is also used in terminal emulator software, etc. What does MS gain by removing it? I don't get it. Grrr. Just two stars for that.

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The keyboard mouse combo from Microsoft Desktop 3000 was purchased to replace my original comfort curve keyboard, the price was so reasonable I figured I am replacing my faulty keyboard and getting a mouse for free. The keyboard although smaller works just fine, the curve seems okay but not as "comfortable" as my larger original Microsoft curve. The mouse is another story, the blue laser is great it is very precise and works on most surfaces, BUT the switches produce a loud clicking sound when used and if you are like me when playing FPS and the action is picking up, when I depress button one (shoot) a bit harder in then normal and the one piece shell also depresses button two (move) and my guy moves out of cover...and dies of course.

Overall price is right, targeted to business usage I guess so I really shouldn't complain about its gaming abilities. So if loud switch noise doesn't bother you and you can control how hard you depress the buttons the combo at this price point is hard to beat.

update: Using a pair of wire cutters I cut out a small gap from the one piece shell just in front of the wheel, this fixed the simultaneous button push problem and reduced the clicking sound a bit.

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I was a little skeptical about getting a curved keyboard at first, but as the name says, it is much more comfortable than anything I have used before. I do have trouble when using straight keyboards on my work computers now because the keys line up differently.

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I tried to like this keyboard. But there are problems.

1. The Keys are NOT full sized keys. They are smaller. It took a while to get use to typing on this.

2. The Keyboard has a bulge in the middle which twists your wrists outwards. This took a while to get use to.

3. The Keys have a long-travel but they don't have much feedback, feeling like you are compressing a rubber sponge when you press down. This makes it harder to type quickly. You also have to press a longer distance than usual to actuate the keys.

4. The plastic is black and shiny and cheap feeling (unlike the Comfort Curve 3000). This means soon the keyboard looks very dirty with visible oil from your skin looking like a dirty iPad screen. You have to frequently wipe to get the clean shine back.

I can continue to use it since the original Comfort Curve 3000 is no longer made. It's inexpensive.

Whenever I can, I replace this with the Bluetooth Comfort Curve 5000, which is much better suited for fast touch typing.

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Has been very helpful and a lot more comfortable. Very good product for the price. I would give it a 10 out of 10