We tried: A4Tech keyboards, desktops

Our next victim is a real low-cost personality. Even its name, Comfort Desktop, makes me feel like the Astra Classic at Opel. Good, usable, but not born today, but you can trust it. It is also a full allocation piece, there is a numeric part as well. The placement of the buttons follows the old school. The keys themselves are smaller than the Padless 9200F, but no smaller than a normal keyboard, in other words, the Padless stuff has more oversized keys.

There are no extras here at all, the input devices are wired to the machine. Plastics can’t be called bad, but the lettering on the top of the buttons is thick, I can almost feel what’s on it with my fingertips.

Well, I wanted the KR-8520D package five, but rather ten years ago, in the age of click buttons, because it's flat enough, you don't have to blow hard, the buttons go a short way. True, this short trip doesn’t bring with it the precision of a laptop keyboard. The keys rumble a little under my finger, but still, typing on it is more comfortable than on the wireless solution shown on the previous page. Despite the fact that this is the case, it clearly feels like this package is strongly the entry level among the manufacturer’s products.

The mouse is similar to a keyboard. The optical sensor is not laser, not V-Track, not Padless, but a good old traditional LED solution. It doesn't hurt to get a mouse pad if you want to use it, not just push it on the desktop instead of Matchbox.

As I wrote this is the entry level. It's really good for everything, but perfect for nothing, it's true for the price we have to ring for it, we can't wait too long. As I wrote the typing is quite surprisingly not bad. Of course, it's not a microswitch stuff, but you can still puff without effort. For gaming, I dare not recommend it next to HTPC, in the latter case because of the wired solution, the former because of the cheap price range, as I can hardly imagine that it would withstand the blows measured by a player’s hand.