Hey what’s up guys, its Marques Brownlee here from MKBHD? And welcome to another hardware review video, this one is the DS International or the DSI Wireless Ergonomic keyboard with a touch pad. This is going to be the hardware review.
I did review a keyboard not too long ago and that is was not really that full featured keyboard, but as you can see if I take this up here. This one has a lot of features for me to go over for you guys. So starting with the fact that its wireless, if we go ahead and flip the keyboard over here. You see it has batteries in here because it doesn’t actually connect to your computer. You just take this out, this is your wireless receiver. Put the keyboard back here. The wireless receiver is as you can probably already tell, USB, so I'm just going to go ahead and plug that in. this just plugs into a computer. Blinks a few times. Set up the drivers. And it’s plug and play.
Now if we look down here at the keyboard again, it took me like three tries to figure this out. But if you go to the other side of the keyboard, pretty much like any wireless keyboard. You actually have to hit that on switch right there. You have to turn it on. So once you’ve turned it on you can also adjust the height with these little height adjustment thing. Most keyboards do have height adjustment, so once you turned it on and adjusted the height, you are set and ready to go.
So this keyboard is unique in the fact that it does have a ton of extra buttons. We’re going to start over here on the right hand side. All you see here is a huge touch pad. Not a huge touch pad, but a very sensitive touch pad. I found I have to do a little tinkering with the sensitivity of the touch pad. It works almost as well as an actual mouse or the touch pad on the laptop. But the touch pad is a nice feature to have on a wireless keyboard. You can move around with it and always have a mouse wherever you go.
Down here are a number of buttons. And I’ll try to zoom in even more. Though it’s not going to be the most focus on the world. We have an email button. Sorry, this is an internet button. An email client button. Keyboard. Calculator. Backward and forward buttons. I like that, that’s pretty cool. And at the top, we also have a FN lock, or a function lock for the FN key. Number lock. Caps lock. And a low battery. Which is nice indicator so if you ever running low in battery. You’ll know that before you run out in the middle of an essay.
So basically the FN button up here, the function button, controls a number of keys along the top of the keyboard. These are a whole bunch of different functions, so if I have FN lock on instead of triggering F8, F9 and F10 and all that. You actually trigger these actions up top. so if I press F12 it will go into flip 3D. If I press F6 it will eject the CD.
So there’s a lot of little function things that you can do with this keyboard. Now on the left hand side, there are even more buttons. As you can see there’s a volume up. Volume down. There is, I'm not sure what that one is actually. We have a play-pause button. Record. Stop. Back and forward button. Those are backward and forward for media. And a left click and a right click buttons.
So this is almost all you would ever need for really using a laptop. Staring on a netbook. And the touch pad won't be much bigger than this. So you can actually just attach this to your netbook and use it just like that.
This key actually is not the Windows key, which is right here. This key is actually the media center button, which is actually the same feature as this green button on the top right hand corner of this remote which I showed you guys.
Now they call it an ergonomic keyboard because you can see here the angle that goes down and up a little bit with this keyboard. It’s kind of an ergonomic angle which is nice. And I found that it does take a little bit of time to break in to this keyboard. Breaking it in. you can hear that travel. It’s not really a thick keyboard as we can see. The keys are not all that thick, but it’s a nice sounding keyboard. And it only takes about three or four days before you can really type smoothly with this without making mistakes. The Keyboard Lad is not that much different.
Now the other keyboard that I review have a number pad. This one instead utilizes a numlock button and has the number written in row here, kind of like the blackberry. But that is basically it for this keyboard. I think I will definitely like using this keyboard. I’ve got the hang of it. I’ve got the hang of typing with it fluidly. Its nice sounding. Nice solid built keyboard. The wireless has not been a problem for me. It’s never disconnected randomly or anything like that. Drivers setting up was a brief. And that’s basically it.
So I hope you like this hardware review. Thank you for checking this video out. Thanks for watching. If you have any software ideas or request? Feel free to subscribe and message me through YouTube because I do alternate back and forth between software and hardware videos. But is then basically it for this keyboard review video. I hope you like it and if you haven’t already, hit that subscribe button and you can also check out DSI link in the description. Thanks for watching this video guys. Have a nice day. Peace.
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