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(More customer reviews)I bought it to extend my thinkpad keyboard experience, which was wonderful, to my new Toshiba TabletPC. It has about the same looking and layout as my old thinkpad laptop, which is what I expected.
However, the build quality is poor, compared to the one mounted on the thinkpad laptop and to the mac at my place. The functions keys on the top are shaky. I got a chance to detach some keypads from both the laptop and this keyboard. The plastic components suspending/mouning the keypads on this keyboard are poorly made, tend to be very soft.
These top-row keys are dull as well, not picking up every stroke. Especially bad is the "delete" key, which works only if I hit it with extra attention. I found this to be very distracting.
Also, motion components beneath the keypads seem not well lubricated, squeaking in quiet nights.
For a price around $90 and such a quality, I will hesitate to recommend it to anyone, except that you cannot live without a thinkpad keyboard.
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The IBM USB Travel Keyboard with UltraNav is compact and lightweight (only 22-mm thick) and includes its own carrying case. The external keyboard enables features such as ThinkPad speaker volume external monitor control brightness system sleep and suspend (on supported ThinkPad systems). The IBM USB Travel Keyboard with UltraNav also features the Business Black color on a unique industrial design.Primary InformationInput Device Type:KeyboardDevice Form Factor:InternalConnectivity Technology:CableInterface Type:USBInput Device / Keys Qty:87 KeysKey / Function Button:SleepPC Compatibility:PCDimensions&MiscellaneousColor:BlackInput DeviceManipulator:UltraNav; TrackPointSystem RequirementsSystem Requirements / OS Required:Microsoft Windows 2000 / XPService&SupportService & Support Type:1 year warrantyUNSPSC CodeUNSPSC Code:43211706Product IDUPC:087944860983Manufacturer Part:31P9490
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