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Microsoft puts out special-run white Arc Keyboard

updated 03:25 pm EDT, Tue April 13, 2010

MS Arc Keyboard gets brighter colors


Microsoft today quickly dropped word of a special edition white Arc Keyboard. The lighter hue gets a lime green secondary hue that also manifests itself in the keys. Besides being more unique than black, the design potentially helps those with home theater PCs type in the dark.

The keyboard is functionally the same and should work with most any computer courtesy of an RF-based USB nano receiver that also stows away underneath the Arc. Its keys are officially tailored to Windows but should translate to other OS commands.

No specific ship date has been given, but Amazon is the exclusive seller and is taking pre-orders today. After a brief error where Amazon had showed the black model as more expensive, the online retailer now says both it and the white version cost $60.




By Electronista Staff

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  1. chefpastry

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    04/13, 03:58pm | report spam | reply

    Next...

    Next, it will be the Special Halo Edition... Then, the Limited Final Fantasy Edition...


  1. Raman

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    04/13, 05:33pm | report spam | reply

    Bluetooth?

    "courtesy of an RF-based USB nano receiver that also stows away underneath the Arc"

    WTF? I hope this RF-based USB nano receiver == Bluetooth.


  1. testudo

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    04/13, 06:31pm | report spam | reply

    Re: Bluetooth

    No. It's RF (which is why it says "RF") not bluetooth, which is not RF.

    Most PCs don't have bluetooth, and adding bluetooth tends to be more expensive than RF (or manufacturers figure only Mac users want bluetooth, so they just charge more because they figure Mac users expect to pay more).


  1. pmccann

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    04/13, 08:39pm | report spam | reply

    Come on...

    "more unique"? It's unique or it's not unique. Think pregnancy and you're on the right track!


  1. ggirton

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    04/13, 08:41pm | report spam | reply

    ergonomic?

    this looks like yet another designers version of something that looks cool.

    It doesn't look ergonomic to me -- I always thought that was the purpose of human interface devices: to be usable.


  1. peter02l

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    04/13, 08:56pm | report spam | reply

    Brilliant design

    http://www.apple.com/magicmouse/


  1. testudo

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    04/14, 02:56pm | report spam | reply

    Re: Brilliant design

    Sorry, dude, the Magic Mouse is the perfect example of ggriton's complaint. Something that looks cool but isn't usable. A solution to a problem that didn't exist (for I don't recall anyone but Steve saying "Wow, if we could only have a way to right-click, but without the confusion and messiness of an actual right-click button!")


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