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Offline Admiral LSD

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Stupidity of modern technology
If it's anything like the keyboard I have here the Turbo buttons change the rate at which data is sent to the PC from the keyboard, it has nothing to do with the speed of the PC like the old case Turbo buttons did.

As for sleep locking up your computer, that only happens if you're running a crap OS like Win9x (particularly Win98, that had lots of problems with Power Management), my machine used to go in and out of standby just fine under Win2k (back when I actually ran that POS) and still does under XP.
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Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
At least the buttons on your keyboard work :p
I have an old multi-function keyboard from Gateway, and the driver is incompatible with XP, so there are abot 12 buttons at the top of my keyboard that do absolutley nothing.
I love the gateway keyboard my mom has with her computer. :D I just wish I could get one like that that didn't effect my games. :doubt:
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Offline redsniper

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Originally posted by CP5670
They have all this junk on the keyboards but not the one set of buttons that would actually be useful, a volume control thing; I have only seen some keyboards with those and you have to keep the keyboard software running in the background to use them unlike the other buttons.


I've got a remote control for my speakers :thepimp:
As for my keyboard, I've got a nice, old-fashioned, carpal tunnel syndrome inducing Dell QuietKey with no useless buttons
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Offline Grey Wolf

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I really wish I could get the buttons to work. I want the volume control keys back :(
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Offline TheVirtu

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Originally posted by StratComm


The Logitech one???  I've got it in front of me.  I don't ever use the wheel, and the F-Lock is god awefully annoying, but otherwise I like it.  About the best feeling keyboard I've seen in a while.  And I set up computer labs for a living, so I see a lot of keyboards ;)


This is the keyboard I bought yesterday, I like the keyboard too, and I agree I hated that F key thing, I pressed F2 for a while wondering what the hell...its not working...didnt realize I had to have the F lock on :)

I just relinked the buttons on the top to get to get easy access to things (IE. Trillian, Archspace, SSC website)

Got a new optical mouse too (Microsoft :P ) Its REALLY nice to get away from ball mouses.

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