Microsoft Wireless Desktop 2000 Keyboard and Mouse Set, UK Layout – Black
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Microsoft Wireless Desktop 2000 Keyboard and Mouse Set, UK Layout – Black
Original price was: £36.99.£27.00Current price is: £27.00.
Description
- Features Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) which can help protect your personal and business information by encrypting what you type
- BlueTrack technology – works on virtually any surface in your home, office or anywhere in between
- Taskbar favourites: Easily access programs in the taskbar with convenient keyboard hot keys
- The pillow-textured palm rest gives comfortable support while you type
- Note: Make sure the keyboard is within 5 Meters of the dongle โ make sure the surrounding area does not have too many other Bluetooth items or other items using radio waves / wireless
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Specification: Microsoft Wireless Desktop 2000 Keyboard and Mouse Set, UK Layout – Black
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Nimbus –
This Microsoft Wireless Desktop 2000 Set comes ready to go out of the box with 2AA batteries included for the mouse and two AAAs for the keyboard. The immediate impression is of a good looking and well designed set. Installation under Windows 10 was literally “plug and play” using the supplied USB dongle.
The keyboard features a textured wrist rest with a comprehensive range of keys to access the web, email, magnify, media player, calculator and volume controls plus 5 customisable favourite keys. The feel of the keys is good although they are quite close together but are affirmative although there doesn’t seem to be caps lock on indicator. There are also feet to raise the keyboard which I find useful plus a low battery indicator.
The mouse is equally good being both comfortable and generously proportioned with a smooth action and effective scroll wheel which has continuous rather than click stop action. The mouse is precise and unlike some others I’ve used doesn’t hang from time to…
SaliesBuzz –
I bought this to replace a Wireless Desktop 3000 that had a mouse with a broken wheel.
The difference in the quality of the keyboards is remarkable. The keyboard on the Microsoft Wireless Desktop 2000 is dreadful. The entire thing flexes when used with the rear extensions raised, and the spacebar seems to be a total hit and miss, not always working, with a dreadful tinny click.
The mouse is also not the same as the one shipped with the Wireless Desktop 3000 (now called 3050). We also have a Microsoft Wireless Comfort Desktop 5050 which has the same Bluetrack mouse as the 3050. The mouse that ships with the Desktop 2000 is not the same and feels a lot less substantial in the hand.
My advice is to go for the Wireless Desktop 3050ย
Microsoft Wireless Desktop 3050
or Wireless Comfort Desktop 5050,ย
Microsoft Wireless Comfort Desktop 5050
ย which only cost a little more.
Do not make the same mistake I did and assume that the quality would be similar across the product range.
Joe B –
There seems to be quite a few positive reviews, so it may be what you are used to.
Things I don’t like.
I’m not sure if it is a design problem, but the keyboard feels slanted towards you. Add in the textured bit at the bottom, and it feels like i’m constantly pushing my hands forward to counteract that. Not comfortable.
There is no gap between the last row of the “normal” keyboard (the row with the Backspace, Enter button) and the “Insert, delete and cursor arrows”. This feels totally alien as the keyboard seems to be full size, yet that one design decision changes to whole feel. Again, muscle memory means you are out by about an inch looking for the cursor keys and Pg Up and Pg Down.
The mouse is awful. Size is good, but my goodness, the mousewheel should offer some tactile feedback – some friction – but this mousewheel is SUPER slippy to the touch, and super smooth (that is a bad thing in my opinion – it’s like you have no control over it), combined with the mousewheel having no…
Alessandro S. –
Delivery was super fast and installation straight forward.
The keyboard is not as smooth as I expected and a bit hard and noisy. The mouse is smooth and fast. The only main issue is the dongle is very long compared to other keyboards. Not such a bad thing in this case since I’m using it only at home and I can remove it when travelling.
The worst of all is that after 6 months of use three keys are already discoloring. In fact, two of them, started some months ago. I do touc typing so my fingers are often relaxing on the keys and obviously those three are the ones where my fingers rest the longest. However, I wouldn’t expect them to last that little. Overall, I’m pretty disappointed of this product. I’ve had far better keyboards from microsoft as well as other brands
ros –
Microsoft make great keyboard and mice, but this was was a huge disappointment. I shall not continue using it. Two problems: the wireless range is very poor – with the dongle in my PC under the left hand side of my small desk, and the mouse on the right, mouse movement was very erratic. Plugging the dongle into the monitor’s USB ports fixed that. Secondly, the layout is not quite right – there is no spacing between the main key section, cursor key section and numeric key section, and the space key is small, all of which mean that if you type without looking at the keyboard (and you probably do) then you’re constantly mistyping. Also, the top row of keys (escape and function keys) is tiny, which you can see in the pictures, but it’s only when you start using something like the vi editor (which uses Escape a lot) that you realise how annoying that is.