MS Wireless Optical Desktop 1000

bagel

Wireless Keyboard and Mouse for £17.99 on Play.com. Seems to be a very good price against Amazon



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DBore

I've already got one from Play @ £17.99 (Took about 3 days to arrive). As you say, it was the best price I've found on line or the High street (Next best was £24.99, average is £29.99 or £39.99). Seems to work fine, but careful positioning of the receiver can improve working distance quite a bit.I may have to get a 2nd set!
Good spot.

caverncity

working link

http://www.play.com/play247.asp?page=title&r=ELEC&title=732012&p=298&g=383&pa=genna#

old_system

Does anyone else find the scroll whell to be very unresponsive, or is mine knackered?

dkislingbury

Is the mouse one of those that are shaped to your hand, or just a standard looking mouse?

NickA_3

dkislingbury wrote:

Is the mouse one of those that are shaped to your hand, or just a standard looking mouse?

It's this one

dkislingbury

is there not a better picture than this one

flowmeter

Try this direct link to Microsofts website.

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/productdetails.aspx?pid=058

royalsteve

flowmeter wrote:

Try this direct link to Microsofts website.

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/productdetails.aspx?pid=058

have one of these already though paid 25.00 - from pcworld about 6 months ago.....its excellent.....however, had a strange problem a week after purchase as my mouse seemed to develop anmesia and keyboard produced every other keystroke, despite both having new batteries.....the wireless pod for these was near my wireless router, which shouldnt affect it but moved away anyway......changed the batteries to Duracell, hust in case

all seems to be ok now.....though i reckon it was more likely the new, but crap batteries that were the culprit

been ok for the last 6 months now...well worth it and a steal at 18.00...to think about 6 years i paid 60.00 for a similar mouse with NO keyboard!

robertgarner11

Before buying wireless, it's worth noting that you'll be forking out on replacement batteries which soon adds up, then you have to go through the performance of getting mouse and machine talking to each other again... Besides, your keyboard and mouse doesn't move from one spot that much. My next PC hopefully will have leads and less hassle - it's a case of new technology isn't necessarily always better...

overworked_underpaid

Are the batteries supplied rechargeable? does it have its own docking station to charge the batteries?