Microsoft has been producing PC accessories such as keyboards and mice for decades, but now that it’s expanded into the PC-making business, the tech giant has grown the desire to maintain some design consistency between those peripherals and its core Surface products – and in the case of the new Modern Keyboard with Fingerprint ID, the Surface Studio in particular, which it seems destined to accompany.
Like much of Microsoft’s premium kit, at $129.99 (AU$209.95 / £124.99) the Modern Keyboard isn’t exactly the cheapest example of its kind; shop around and you can get a basic keyboard for around a tenth of this price.
However, if you’re after a keyboard that exudes quality and high-end functionality, the Modern Keyboard makes a pretty good argument for spending a bit more to get a bit more.
Design
With its sleek aluminium frame and flat, squared keys with rounded corners, the new Modern Keyboard is about as classy as keyboards get and has more than a passing resemblance to Apple’s own Magic Keyboard design.
It also adds in a fingerprint scanner, however, which has been subtly and tastefully included in a way that doesn’t draw attention to itself, and what Microsoft has achieved here is a simple …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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