So I buy an HP Wireless Keyboard and Mouse 300. This is ghastly, ghastly shit. Do not buy it.
First one, continued problems of it not working in spasms. Back to the shop, they’ll repair it. So, pick it up yesterday. They give me a new one in fact. Same problems with this one. After perhaps 3 hours use. Has spasms of keys simply not registering.
It’s shit. Do not buy this ghastly piece of failed production.
Pity, I used to like HP kit.
Get a Keychron
HP’s decline was kickstarted by Carly Simon. Lovely singer but terrible CEO.
That should read “$19.99 keyboard and mouse — ghastly shit”. You get what you pay for.
$17.99 keyboard. But the argument stands.
Argos sell a very nice (liquid resistant) keyboard for £9.99, though corded, and no mouse. It’s ideal for when my grandson comes to visit.
Can’t say I’ve bought a keyboard/mouse combo for years. (There’s one came with the current tower system is still in its box, somewhere) I buy the K/B I need. US layout, wired, so I can use US International for all the extra functionality. Multi-button, wireless, programmable mice. Combo’s are really introductory sets for beginners. Do HP actually make KBs/mice? Or are they just sourcing cheap Chinese shit & re-badging?
A friend of mine used to work in HP in the upper echelons of the technical side. He now wouldn’t touch HP kit with bargepole, especially not their printers. For keyboards and mice I’d go for Logitech or Microsoft.
I generally buy Cherry keyboards these days, which isn’t very often because they’re built like tanks and last forever. Expensive, but “buy once, cry once”.
problems of it not working in spasms
Do you really mean that? Or, perhaps “spasmodically not working” or “only working in spasms”?
Darn keyboards, eh?
But if it doesn’t work, don’t you just return it for a refund/replacement? Keyboards can’t generally be “repaired”.
Logitech combos are nice to use but tend to die before the batteries run out. At least cheap to replace.
Bloke in the Fourth Reich in Cascais whose posts get filtered out if name ever changed.
@Bloke in Wales. I bought an expensive Microsoft Ergonomic keyboard a long time ago. 20 years ago in fact. Still going strong despite near daily use.
A friend of mine used to work in HP in the upper echelons of the technical side. He now wouldn’t touch HP kit with bargepole, especially not their printers.
HP LaserJets remain the business. The inkjets are crap, but then most inkjets are crap.
Same problems with this one. After perhaps 3 hours use. Has spasms of keys simply not registering.
The reviews for the 300 model aren’t terrible. The fact you have the same issue with the replacement could just as easily point to it being a problem with your PC.
“Argos sell a very nice (liquid resistant) keyboard for £9.99, though corded, and no mouse. It’s ideal for when my grandson comes to visit.”
Teenagers, eh.
My then employers used to manufacture super duper keyboards and flogged them at £200 a time. We recommended Cherry keyboards to our clients, because they were a lot cheaper, compatible and hard wearing. This was in the late 80s.
Cherry keyboards have stayed the same price for 30 years and are now expensive but still hard wearing.