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Microsoft 5000 Bluetooth Keyboard

Honestly, some of Microsoft’s peripherals are actually pretty good — the Bluetooth mouse, the Bluetooth keyboards, all of it. The Microsoft 5000 Bluetooth keyboard is an old product, so old that you can get brand-new clearance stock on eBay for like 80-90 bucks. Clearance stock, sure, but still a hell of a deal. The reason it’s clearance is that a newer model replaced it — and I really don’t recommend that so-called newer model, because its F1-F12 keys are now multimedia buttons by default and you have to hold FN to get the actual function keys back. Incredibly annoying. There isn’t much to say about this keyboard. The one thing worth mentioning is the layout. They call it ergonomic — this fan-shaped thing does look pretty scientific on paper, since your hands naturally rest at that angle. But we’ve all been typing on rectangular key grids for so long that the muscle memory is baked in, so expect an adjustment period.