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I got this keyboard after my other one went bad and thought that it would be ideal because I surf the web so much. I am more than ecstatic with what I got out of the purchase. This keyboard in light on your fingers, you barely have to touch the keys and its very very quiet. My roommate is now going to buy it after using mine - its an absolute great buy!

This keyboard is the single best keyboard I've ever used. The scroll wheel on the left, and the buttons along the top have become so addictive that I complain whenever I have to use a normal keyboard. The media buttons are compatible with something like 17 different programs: WMP 6, 7, 8, Winamp, Quicktime, etc. It's also a very durable keyboard. Additonaly, the extra buttons require a special driver (which is typical). It's only a little over 1 MB on my Windows 2000 Pro system. My only complaint is that the browser buttons don't support Mozilla 1.0. Other then that, it's a fine keyboard.

This is my first multimedia keyboard and I really like the way it performs. The keyboard looks pretty sleek as well. It has a good design and many multimedia buttons. Installation of the keyboard drivers is easy and configuring the hot keys is fast and simple. The only thing that I don't like about this keyboard is that if you are using Windows XP, the sleep key takes you to the user screen instead of going to low power mode. Oh well, I can live with it.

This is a very nice, well designed keyboard. The keys are very comfortable and quiet. The construction looks and feels very durable (not cheaply made). The extra keys are well placed and easy to program. I did have some problems with the iTouch software using Windows 98 SE. Using iTouch 1.83 (which came with the keyboard) works fine except the keyboard resets when you log off (switch users) Windows and the num lock light goes out when num lock is still set. Annoying. I tried downloading the latest version 2.13. That has more features but worse problems. With Win 98, it crashes when you use the Media key. Then none of the programmable keys work until you reboot. It's a little disappointing to pay so much for such a nice keyboard and have such annoying software problems with it. Perhaps it works better with newer versions of Windows, but many people don't by a replacement keyboard for a new computer. Logitech should test it's products better with older versions of Windows.

The palm rest hooks into the underside of the keyboard with four thin plastic strips, but mine broke off within the first week of purchase with casual usage.

The buttons to the left of the keyboard are not very useful. The cursor needs to be moved over a window before the keyboard wheel can be used to scoll the window. Instead of doing a maneuver with the mouse and the keyboard, one can easily accomplish the same task with arrow keys. Below the keyboard wheel button is a back button (not configurable, works only with Internet Explorer) and a Go button (which can only launch web pages). The rest of the progammable keys have more option as to what it can do, including multimedia/internet functions, launching folders, menus, and applications.

Speaking of programmability, the F1-F12 keys by default come with email functionalities, such as new, reply, forward, and send. If this is an inconvenience, these keys can be de-programmed to act like the F1-F12 keys by assigning them the "transparent pass-through" function. The Go button is easy to press by mistake when holding the keyboard by its left side, so in addition to the "transparent pass-through" function, a "do nothing" function for the go button would have been nice. The F-lock key works like the caps lock key, except when the F-lock is on, it forces the F1-F12 keys to behave like F1-F12 keys instead of like programmed keys. There is no option to have the F-lock turned on by default upon Windows startup.