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Category: Accessories
Item: Logisys KB609 Office, Internet and Multimedia Pro Character-Illuminated Keyboard
Provided by: Logisys
Reviewed by: K. Elliott
Date:
06.06.06
Price: Under $40.00

One of the most overlooked parts on any computer has to be the poor lonely little keyboard. I serves no greater purpose than to type a few letters into our screen when we need them and then it sits idly by waiting for the next chance to be of use to us again.

Let's take a minute and talk about the changes we have seen in keyboards over the years. Take the original keyboard that came with the IBM PC for example, it weighted somewhere in the neighborhood of 3.5 lbs and the entire frame was made of pot metal.  Then there was the infamous "IBM Chiclet board" used on IBM's PCjr if ever there was a major design mistake that was it.

In the early and mid-90's we began to see keyboards that were engineered to be ergonomically correct as the people began to become concerned about repetitive stress injuries.  These designs varied greatly from keyboards that folded in the middle to fit the angle that you placed your hands to type, while others went about it quite differently by re-arranging the keys on the keyboard so that the keys you used the most were located at your finger tips.

One other change we saw in keyboards in late 90s and the early part of the 21st Century was the addition of back-lit keys on  keyboards.   While some companies opted to use LEDs for there lighting others went the modern route and used electro-illuminated lighting.  The last thing I want to touch on is the addition of accessory buttons to the keyboards, this is perhaps one of my favorite and most used features on all of the keyboards I use.  The ability to open Excel, Outlook, MS Word all with the touch of a single button is what time saving is all about.  Most keyboards also feature email buttons as well as multimedia buttons to go along with the full line-up of MS Office buttons.

The keyboard we are reviewing today is the newest addition to Logisys's keyboard line-up, it features a number of the things I mentioned early thus making it a truly full-featured keyboard.  So come on all as we check this bad boy out.

We come from a time when the computer was much like today’s typewriter, and the memory size at the time was less than the memory in most of our cell phones we are using nowadays. Computer then was a huge heavy mystery beige box hidden under tables in our study rooms. Only those pros or computer wizards could use them. Now computers become so sophisticated and popular that we use them to chat, to play, to listen to music and watch movies and much more. Computer and computer industry has being changed so dramatically since then that computer is now more than just a computing device. We have come through all those changes and survived through those recession times because we persevere in enhancing ourselves by the market demands and trends and we do different.

We had a dream that there was a computer as novel as a toy and as exquisite as a gift. We dreamed that there was a computer that could glitter all kinds of lights just like an emerald. We had also dreamed a more people friendly computer with a choice of more eye catching colors available instead of being beige only. That is exactly what we have been doing and working hard on.

It has come to a time for our humble computer to be out from the dark study room to our spacious living room or anywhere we want. And we do think it is time now to dress up our computer with different chassis, lighting effect, sparkling fans and grills, rather than in the same old- fashioned body year after year. For this, we have designed and manufactured more colorful, more stylish yet economical computer cases and accessories. With our delicate products, you will be pride to present your computer at any events such as a LAN party and so on to boast its beauty and power.

In order to have the latest cutting edge products to respond the demand of the fast-changing PC market, we have been working closely with our partners in China and Taiwan to produce our own exclusive brand name products. We are the home of logisys PC gaming cases, PC modification accessories, Logisys multimedia speaker systems, and Xenix inputting devices.
 

  • PS/2 + USB Interface with Long Cord (over 6’)
  • Full-Size Keyboard with Double Size Back Space Key and Large Size ENTER key.
  • Glossy Painting with Blue Letter Illuminated Keys
  • MS Office Hot Keys
  • Multimedia Hot Keys
  • Internet Hot Keys
  • On/Off switch to control light
  • 133 Keys + Light Up Scrolling Wheel
  • Compatible with all Windows operating systems
  • Dimension: 20.25"x8.5"x1"(LxWxH)

 

 

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