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The Advent Wireless Aluminium Laser Desktop consists of a separate wireless keyboard and mouse. The controller part was shaped a bit like a mouse, and was connected to the computer using a usb connector on a lead.
The keyboard and mouse are both brushed aluminium effect looking quite good. The keyboard at first look appears to be a full size keyboard complete with numeric keypad. The keyboard however turned out to be more comparable with some laptop keyboards due to the positioning of the keys. In particular the Enter key is smaller than normal, and the “\” key and “#” keys were moved onto different rows of keys. As a touch typist and programmer these are important keys and make it much harder to use.
When touch typing I also found that many keys presses were not correctly passed onto the computer. This meant that to use the keyboard required that the keys had to be pressed slowly and deliberately.
The keyboard and mouse worked a good distance away from the sensor.
As a touch-typist I found the keyboard frustrating to use and so returned it shortly afterwards. If you do not do much typing and don’t touch-type then you may find it good.
This was tested using a Laptop running Linux (specifically Vector Linux), and appeared to be compatible from a hardware point of view. I did not try any of the advanced multimedia keys. These did not work out of the box, but most likely could be made to work in Linux with a bit of tweaking.