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Originally Posted by Betty Woo View Post
UPDATE: apparently, they *did* send it Xpresspost but Canada Post seems to be lagging on updating their website so, according to the site, the keyboard hasn't moved since Feb. 5th. But when Blankmedia.ca called them, they're saying it's actually somewhere close to me in Vancouver. My luck: a little notice will be sitting on my door when I get home today telling me to pick it up tomorrow from my postal outlet half a block away. Seems lots of packages are delayed because of the weather conditions.
I got mine last night. Canada Post had locked it up in the special Parcel Pickup box in my corner mail box and left me the keys. Pretty sweet. I've never had them do that to one of my packages before. So much nicer than trudging all the way down to the Post Office.

The keyboard itself it quite nice. Feels very solid when closed, and pretty solid when open. The first time you open it up you will be a little put off by some rather loud snapping like sounds. I'm pretty sure that's just all of the locking mechanisms and I couldn't find anything broken. I find it a little odd that the right side feels a tad higher than the left, or that it's sloped downward from right to left. Typing on it is very easy, except when you need to throw in numbers or special punctuation. Then it becomes an exercise in figuring out which Fn key to press (green or blue) and where they moved the key you want. I could see the desire for a 5-row keyboard now so that numbers would be easier to enter, but overall I think it's an acceptable compromise for most users.

The only software problem I found was after I disconnected from the keyboard, I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to get everything back to automatically popping open the on-screen keyboard. I was tired and gave up, fixing the problem with a quick reboot. I'll play with it more later. Overall though, great deal!
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