Microsoft Digital Media Pro Keyboard
Review by: Steve
Edited by: Ji4m
Provided by: Microsoft
Price: $44.95

Introduction:
The Digital Media Pro keyboard from Microsoft is their latest wired keyboard. It offers very sleek looks, coupled with a wide variety of customizable hot keys. There is a new feature making it's debut on this keyboard, and that is the new Zoom Slider! The zoom slider is a feature that can really enhance computer usage by adding a function people use all the time, now at the touch of a button. Read on!

From Microsoft:
"Digital Media Pro Keyboard provides convenient features that enable people to get more out of everyday computing activities, including viewing photos, listening to music and accessing the Internet. The innovative zoom slider makes viewing images and documents quicker and easier than ever, and My Favourites keys give one-touch access to favourite Web sites and files."

In The Box:
(1) Microsoft Digital Media Pro Keyboard
(1) Wrist rest to clip onto keyboard
(1) USB to PS/2 adapter
(1) Installation CD
(1) Manual

(Box, click to enlarge)

Specs:
Connectivity: USB or PS/2 via included adapter
Requirements:
Windows-based PC running Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP operating system.
Pentium 233MHz or higher
35MB of available hard disk space
CD-ROM Drive
Any available PS/2 or USB port on the PC
Macintosh with Mac OS 10.1 to 10.3X operating system, 30mb of available hard disk space, available USB port

(Everything that's included, click to enlarge)

(Intial look in the box, click to enlarge)

Features:
The new Microsoft Digital Media Pro keyboard features a very sleek looking black and silver design. To add to the stylish looks it has a wide selection of customizable hot keys and a zoom slider.

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The new feature that Microsoft is introducing on the Digital Media Pro keyboard is the zoom slider. This slider rests off to the left side of the keyboard and is just in reach of the pinky finger. Hence it's name, the zoom slider allows the user to zoom in on pictures, documents and even increase/decrease the text size on websites for easier viewing. This is a very handy feature for those who have digital cameras and store large high quality pictures on their computer. Zooming in on a spot in the photo is quick and easy!

(Zoom slider and volume control keys up left side of keyboard, click to enlarge)

Just above the zoom slider sits the mute, volume down and volume up buttons. These allow you to turn up/down/mute the computers sound without having to reach over to the speakers to do it by hand.

(Hot keys above numpad, click to enlarge)

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