New Microsoft Windows 8 Keyboard and Mouse?

Mouse if you can call it that, the thing looks more like a dough ball that someone put their thumb into.  The keyboard on the other hand has a nice shape and square chicklet style keys and a ton of negative space.

The worse part?  The key arraignment, first we have dual spacebars followed by some "extra" keys filling what would have normally been voided space on other natural designs.

I've been typing on one of these keyboards loaned to me by Microsoft for the past few days and can say it's quite comfortable. The keyboard is domed, so it's raised in the middle and slopes downward toward the edges. The "6" key is in an unfamiliar place, which is kind of annoying, as is the backspace key. But users can opt to turn one of the space-bar keys into a backspace button, so that helps a bit.

I'm not sure what the author is talking about when it comes to the 6 key, it's in the same place, now the key under the 6 is interesting and seems new.

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