18th February 2010, 18:16
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| Name brand PC keyboard with lighted keys ? Friends: I find myself increasingly on my PC late at night, while my wife is asleep. Hate to disturb her by turning on any light. My desktop uses a black TVS Gold keyboard, and in the dark I can't see the keys at all. Often I can touch-type perfectly, but sometimes my inertial navigation coordination goes awry and my right hand goes one-key off to the left or right. Exasperating.  So I determined to buy a keyboard with LED backlit illuminated keys. Any suggestions? I located on the web, a keyboard called the Logitech G110. It was released in August 2009.   It has red and blue LEDs inside each individual key mechanism. The G110's keys are made of transparent plastic, coated silver, then coated black. The coating in the keycap are laser-etched and protectively coated. When LED light reflects up the key’s “chimney” and through the painted/etched keycap, the characters get illuminated. Using a configuration customization program, you can mix red and blue backlighting in varying intensities to create any custom shade of purple, from pure red to pure blue. The keyboard has integrated USB audio -- 3.5 mm headphone and mic jacks. It also has a USB 2.0 100 mA port for plugging in a flash pen drive or USB mouse. Note that 100 mA is not enough power for supporting a USB hard drive.  A magazine article even proposed a price of Rs. 3,700. But when I contacted my connections in Lamington Road, Mumbai, they could not trace a single piece. Does anyone know if Logitech has launched this keyboard in India yet? Or when it will do so? Does anyone know of a better keyboard-- ideally -- with white LED backlit illumination that is currently available in India ? Ram |
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18th February 2010, 18:45
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18th February 2010, 21:06
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 . But for the keyboard like one you've described, I doubt that is going to stop you from buying. | |
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18th February 2010, 21:33
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19th February 2010, 01:50
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19th February 2010, 11:07
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Logitech is now one of the top brand names in keyboards and mice. And I wasn't alluding to CCFL gas tubes. They were proper solid-state semiconductor LEDs, which typically have a very long life, do not generate discernible heat and do not consume much power. | |
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