Posted on 14/07/08, filed under Keyboards - General, Specialist Keyboards, Wireless Keyboard | No Comments
Here is a list of my favourite wireless keyboards out at the moment!
Wireless multimedia keyboard with 10 programmeable keys and 5 button optical mouse. Supplied with Keym@n software.
Stylish ultra flat Plug & Play wireless keyboard with 5 button optical mouse.
Ultra flat, wireless multimedia keyboard with 10 programmeable keys and 5 button optical mouse. With Keym@n software.
It is so easy now just to have a wireless keyboard for your computer. It just makes life so much easier! Check out this video i found on youtube which documents the new era of wireless keyboards!! 
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Posted on 12/03/08, filed under Keyboards - General | No Comments
There are many variants of keyboards from the Cherry range. Here is a run through of them:
G80 / G81 keyboards are normally quite ’standard’ in their appearance - no additional multimedia keys, quite plain to look at - but they do have the possibility in some cases to have magnetic card readers, smartcard readers and now RFID.
G84 keyboards are all small-footprint. The G84-4100, for instance, is the size of a keyboard found in a notebook PC, but is far more robust.
J82 - this is the lowest cost keyboard produced by Cherry - also standard, with no multimedia keys
G83 - Cherry’s tried and tested model. Available as standard type or with smartcard reader and/or fingerprint reader and soon with RFID.
G85 - Multimedia, wired keyboard
M82/M85 - Multimedia wireless keyboard and mouse sets.
Posted on 29/01/08, filed under Keyboards - General | 2 Comments
Cherry doesn’t manufacture one type of keyboard and it’s certainly worth running through which keyboards are made from which technology. Each type has it’s own attributes and can be suited more to some applications than others.
The part numbers, although extremely long, can offer some clues as to which technology is used, as well as information about special features, connection types and colour. Although this isn’t a complete rule, for the most part, it can help with detection……
As an example, this is a typical Cherry part number: G83-6105LPQGB-0. This can be broken down into 4 main sections:
G83 - this is the technology used under the keycaps. In this instance, it’s membrane technology - a rubber web directly under the keycaps, squeezes together a 4 layer thin membrane sheet, which is over-printed with a circuit. This is the simplest way of making a keyboard and used in most keyboards from other manufacturers. It’s also the most cost effective.
6105 - in this instance, this has two pieces of information. Firstly, the 6 at the beginning shows that the keyboard has a 6000 series housing (this can be located in the Cherry keyboard catalogue or on the website). This housing is relatively small in footprint, but still ‘full size’ with a numeric pad on the right hand side. The 105 denotes the number of keys -105 means it’s a standard, European layout of some form. If this was 104, it would show that it was some form of US layout.
LPQGB - all of these letters have a meaning:
L = Laser printed keycaps - keycaps are literally burnt with a laser machine to print he legend on the top. This means legends cannot simply wear off.
P = PS/2 - the 6 pin mini-DIN connector found on most PC’s. This can also be a U for USB
Q = This is an internal reference, denoting versions. However, there is a further meaning for the customer. Any letters from M to Z mean that the keyboard has the 3 additional Windows keys, whereas if it was from A to L, it would be the older type without the Windows keys.
GB = the country layout - in this instance, UK English
-0 = the final part, denotes colour. -0 is white, -2 is black.
