Saitek Eclipse Keyboard ( PZ30AU )
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Customer Review: Nice Keyboard
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm an occasional gamer and a two fingered typist.
Nice uncluttered keyboard with the only additional keys being the very handy volume controls and the backlight brightness button.
The keys give just the right amount of resistance.
The backlight feature I have not found much use for as the light from the monitor is usually enough and the black on silver key design is a pretty good contrast. I think there must be some quality issues concerning the backlight and key readability. Some say it's great and some not. In my case I found that you can only get the best affect when looking directly down on the keys. Even then, keys with multiple lettering appear not evenly lit. For example the "Ba" and "sp" on the Back Space key are quite bright but the rest is half the brightness. The numeric keyboard suffers from this also. Luckily I don't really need the backlight but it is cool looking.
I'm not a touch typist so I don't know what the best position is for real typing. It does seem that the only time the wrist rest has any affect is when the keyboard is flat or raised with the feet. All the keyboards I've owned so far have sloped up towards the back. This lays virtually flat even with the rear feet extended. I finished up adding one inch high blocks under the feet to bring it up to the position similar to my old keyboards. It makes the wrist rest useless but thats just the way I'm used to using it.
This is the first black keyboard I have had. Maybe it is because of the color that I notice that this is a dust magnet. I didn't realize how much **@# is floating around my room :-) No sooner you dust it off the stuff is back! Instead of buying one of those expensive ionizing air cleaners you could probably just hang a couple of these up and get just as good results. Maybe they should show this as a feature :-)
Customer Review: Good keyboard, no thrills.
Summary: 4 Stars
This keyboard has worked well for over a month, silent, back-lit, not much else to say. The back-light color is not overly bright with the monitor on, but keys are well lit, even in daylighting. This is by no means a gamer's keyboard as it has no bells or whistles other than the led back lighting, but it is what I was looking for.Customer Review: Good blue lights but finish is not as good as I had expected
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought this product because I needed a USB keyboard. I really like the blue lights since I like working in the dark but the other components are of poor quality. By that I mean the keys and rest pad, the stuff you 'touch'. They don't feel all that rigid nor do they feel a punch. The rest pad is all plastic no soft cushions or surface finishing.
Great looking keyboard but the touching aspect is a bit lacking.
Sorry, was expecting too much for $34 bucks.
Customer Review: A solid keyboard
Summary: 5 Stars
A solid keyboard. The keyboard stays put with the oversized soft rubber pads. This contributes dearly to the feel of the keyboard. Solid. You pretty much have to lift the keyboard to re-position it when it's not in the raised position and all four pads are on the desk.
The lighting of the keys, unlike a couple reviews I've read, is uniform. The one exception to this is the keys that have two lines of writing on them. For instance the Scroll Lock, Number Keys (both the key pad and the top row of number keys), Page Down keys etc. are not lit evenly. Actually I found that I really don't need the keys lit up. My keyboard is in front of my moniter. The light from the moniter reflects off the keyboard. With the silver keys and the the dark laser cut letters the reflection contrasts ideally off the keys making it appear that the keys are white and the letters are black.
I also read of an issue where the keys were loosing their silver coating making the letters hard to read. I've only had this keyboard a couple of months and have not found this to be the case as of yet. Having said that, I use the keyboard for typing, not for gaming where one would continuously hit the same key over and over again. As this is a "basic" keyboard, not specifically geared towards gamers, I suspect this would not be an issue.
I could only come up with 2 insignificant drawbacks with this unit. The 3 led indicator lights at the top of the keyboard for the Number Lock, Cap Lock and the Scroll Lock are a bit bright. (A black magic marker dimmed those lights quite well). Also, the Volumn and Light Intensity buttons could use an indicator light of somekind. In my case, this is not an issue. I don't use the volumn buttons once they were set and the Light intensity button is at the top right of the keyboard where I use the Minus key for a reference.
I would recommend this keyboard for anybody who needs to see the keys in the dark.
Customer Review: Nice Simple Keyboard
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this keyboard to upgrade from a microsoft photo keyboard and I am NOT disapointed. I like wired products over wireless due to no having battries die on you wile gaming. The back light is very nice and great in a dark room. only down side is that at a 30 degree viewing angle you cant read the keys but at 45 degrees its perfect. The dim setting on the keyboard is kinda pointless cause its just too dim to see but on the max setting its just right. The keys are nice and responsive with out and delay or sticking.
Purchase and you wont be disapointed