One of the best wireless keyboards has a touch pad and great for lounge room/tv setups
Office Works is the cheapest anywhere only $40 This is not a price match fixed price, cheapest in Sydney so far
Logitech Wireless Touch Keyboard K400R $40 Officeworks
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I will agree on this.. i bought one for my Media box a few months ago.. while the keyboard itself is quite nice the touch pad is really bad.. just trying to move the mouse pointer it often clicks or drags objects around the screen.. that part is way too sensitive.. the mouse buttons themselves feel really cheap also.. that being said it is usable if you only need it occasionally.
As a bonus there is a left mouse button on the very top left hand side of the keyboard great for scroll bars it runs on 2xAA separately (will run on 1 battery at a time but has room for both) and there is a on/off switch top right hand side of the keyboard so you can put it down and not accidentally press buttons when you pick it back up.
The receiver is one of those tiny USB bits that does come with an extender piece you can put it into.. or just use the tiny bit if you are not worried about needing to remove it all the time and want to hide the receiver.
It was around $22 at Harvey Norman during a sale and using the newsletter coupon.
The price had always been $47 at OW, so they only reduced $7.
Btw the same keyboard was about $23 at HN a couple of weeks back.$22 at HN about 8 weeks ago. Yet I only received it this past Monday =/
these are ok keyboards, i have one sitting on my shelf unloved. i much prefer my flymouse for the htpc (or just vnc into it from this pc)
but $40 isnt anything special. they have been as low as $20 and usually in the low to mid $30's in other deals on here. there also $40 at the good guys at the moment apparently and $38 at greenbox.
which flymouse do you have?
i have a keyboard/mouse combo but im looking for something like the flymouse.
Yeah, very interested in info of good flymice.
EDIT: Guessing the Mele F10 is the way to go at the moment?
i THINK it was this one http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/114969
both me and a mate bought the same one from DX and they both died reasonably quickly and were expensive ($30-$40 odd from memory) so wouldnt recommend. i did buy another one from a deal here after the DX one which was awesome but i seem to have lost the receiver and its not turned up yet, that was ~$20'ish iirc and the best one so far (nicer keyboard feel). the current one works well just the keyboard buttons dont feel as nice (still better than the DX one tho) but for the ~$16 delivered its well worth the money.
oh after some searching i found the one i really liked and its still available http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/90683
id definitely recommend getting one of these to try. the keys are much nicer to use and one simple thing better about it is the little android dude is facing the right way up to use it as a mouse unlike my current one so in the dark trying to watch a movie etc its much easier to work out which way around you need to hold it to use it.
Thanks, nosdan, I just bought one.
I bought this one, which seems to work really well:
http://geekbuying.com/item/RC13-S--Measy-RC13-Updated-Versio…its used in the bedroom, so the sound is ideal (and the headphone port) just wish you could turn the loudspeaker off and have the headphones only…
Seems like a good choice. They all seem to be missing the backlit keyboard though.
great keyboard, especially the POWER button, can resume the computer from sleep ! A big improvement compare with the K400 :)
Anyone able to offer any real life comments on the range of these things?
I have my PC in a study and tv in another room, connected via a long HDMI cable.
I can use the xbox wireless controller great through the walls, but haven't had much luck with keyboards or mouse.
I have a few older Logitech keyboards/mice that used their proprietary rf dongles which won't do the distance.
its probably going to depend more on where your receiver is more than anything else. if its simply plugged into the back of the pc its going to struggle, if its on a usb extension/hub sitting on your monitor like mine is the range on all my logitech stuff is fantastic. i can use mine from 2 rooms away with no problems. tho my monitor has side usbs (dell 30") they tend to get bumped etc so i have a small usb hub taped to the top of my monitor so dongles poke upwards. if your having connection issues give that a try.
Why don't you spend the money and buy a networked media player, so you don't need to fart around with long cables and remote controls?
There is an easy way and a hard way, and you are choosing the most complex and difficult method to do something which is able to be done far more easily and cheaply.
Oh, I have a full networked setup for that. I have a NAS box that stores media, and remote players for each TV.
The wireless keyboard is for playing games on the bigscreen telly, whilst the powerhouse PC is still located in my study. This setup works great with my wireless 360 controller, it just would be more handy to have a wireless keyboard/mouse for the inevitable issues that pop up.
So far there isn't a real elegant solution for this, although these streaming Steam boxes they've announced sound like they'd be exactly what i'm after. Verdicts still out on whether that will actually work well or not however.
Ahhh, I see.
Perhaps some kind of wireless USB extender? Or maybe USB over Cat5? That way the Keyboard dongle will be in the same room.
I bought this keyboard about 2 months ago - the only issue I have with it is that there is no way to permanently disable tap-to-click.
The logitech software setting to disable it doesn't work, but there's a secret (undocumented) key combination you can press when you turn it on to disable it.
Note that you need to do this every time you turn the keyboard back on :(
On the K400r that I got the setup guide states FN + left click disables tap gestures & FN + right click to disable edge gestures.(so no permanent way) I can't get Setpoint software to customize the keys to work (win 8.1) at all! I agree with havle it's really "cheap" compared to previous K400 model. As for range I agree with nosdan, get the unifying receiver up high, just did a quick test, plugged into laptop, range "up to 10M" as per packaging, then plugged into 2m USB extender, placed up high on top windowsill, went through 3 rooms & brick fireplace. As for price yes 40% off (1 Day only) http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/114331 But still I bought this for the trackpad, to use use Win 8-8.1 & It's much better than a trackpad (alone)at ~$80 (well that's my 3&half cents)
I am lefty. Where the hell can I get one of these with my preferences?
Good deal OP, IMHO the touchpad on this keyboard is not too good, feel plastic-ish and quite clumsy to use. Just my 2c