Product Description

Upgrade the look of your desktop with ultra-thin and stylish design The HP Wireless Elite Desktop combines style and high-tech key design to deliver an ultra-thin design and silent operation. Built-to-last the HP Wireless Elite Desktop provides full featured keyboard and mouse.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #524 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Hewlett-Packard
• Model: FQ481AA#ABA
• Dimensions: 3.00" h x 7.00" w x 18.47" l, 2.54 pounds

Features

• Silent operation: High-tech scissor switch keyboard design offers a quiet experience.
• Wireless freedom: Free yourself from wires with wireless keyboard and mouse - up to 32 feet. Advanced 2.4GHz wireless technology for less delays or dropouts.
• Get more control: Control your entertainment experience with a comprehensive set of multimedia keys. Convenient access for multimedia controls - 3-buttons for easy volume control. HP TouchSmart PC hot keys.
• High-performance optical mouse: 800 dpi high-precision sensor provides precise, smooth and responsive tracking that works on most surfaces. Symmetric design for right or left handed use.
• Energy efficient: Conserve energy with PC sleep button. Monitor battery level with convenient on screen battery level indicator. Long battery life (keyboard - 12 months typical, mouse - 4 months typical).

Amazon.com Product Description
Built-to-last, the HP Wireless Elite Keyboard provides a full featured keyboard that combines style and high-tech key design to deliver an ultra-thin design and silent operation. And this package (model FQ481AA) also includes the HP Wireless Elite Mouse, which offers precision pointing (via high-precision 800 dpi optical sensor), three-button operation, rubber scroll wheel, symmetric design for both left- and right-handers, and up to 4 months of battery life.

The ultra-thin HP Wireless Elite Keyboard and high-precision Wireless Elite Mouse.

Keyboard Features & Specifications

• High-tech design: The black finish and silver accents along with the low profile key design offers a distinctive style. The reduced foot-print design saves desktop space
• Silent operation: High-tech scissor switch keyboard design offers a quite experience.
• Wireless freedom: Free yourself from wires with wireless keyboard--up to 32 feet. Advanced 2.4 GHz wireless technology for less delays or dropouts. The included wireless USB mini-receiver installs effortlessly and eliminates clutter. Wireless mini-receiver has connect light and PC status blue-LED
• Get more control: Control your entertainment experience with a comprehensive set of multimedia keys.
  • Convenient access for multimedia controls
  • 3-buttons for easy volume control
  • HP TouchSmart PC hot keys
• Energy efficient: Conserve energy with PC sleep button. Monitor battery level with convenient on screen battery level indicator. Long battery life (keyboard -- 12 months typical)
• Easy to keep clean: Spill resistant keyboard for easy cleaning.
• Adjustable keyboard height with 2 different positions
• 2.4 GHz USB wireless receiver
• Compatible with Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7
• Compatible with HP PCs and non-HP PCs
• 1 year limited warranty

What's In The Box
HP Wireless Elite Keyboard, Wireless Elite Mouse, USB wireless receiver, batteries, software CD and documentation

Customer Reviews

If I could do it over...
After using this product for several days I have grown to love the keyboard. The keys are spaced perfectly, it has just the right amount of feedback, and is nearly silent.

I was looking for simplicity( I have never really used shortcut keys) and volume controls, are all I really need. It does have programmable F-keys that can be used as media controls, eject, and monitor brightness. I find typing more comforatable on a flat surface as opposed to raised up on a wristpad. Keyboard 5/5.

On the other "hand" the mouse is terrible. It is a decent size, comfortable in your hand and glides along a pad or desk smoothly. The scroll wheel is very smooth as well, BUT I have never used a mouse that required so much effort to click. It literally needs to be pressed so hard that everytime I right click, my right arm moves up and to the right, causing the mouse pointer to move off my target frequently.

If I could do it over I would purchase the keyboard by itself http://www.amazon.com/Hewlett-Packard-FQ480AA-Wireless-Elite-Keyboard/dp/B001IOHAVO/ref=sr_1_36?ie=UTF8&s=pc&qid=1245364930&sr=1-36 and use the savings on another mouse. It is about 25 dollars cheaper for just the keboard here on amazon.
Check out my pictures, this thing looks great on a desk. 4/5

Works with Linux
I haven't had this product very long, but I wanted to let potential buyers know that it *does* work with Linux. I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 and I just plugged it in and it worked. The USB subsystem recognized it immediately and I was using it within a couple minutes of taking it out of the box.

The keyboard itself and the mouse are quite nice. I have no complaints. That said, this keyboard is probably not for everybody. If you use a keyboard for a living, like I do, you tend to be very particular about what you like and don't. For me, this works. Others - particularly those who don't like laptop keyboards or flat (almost no contour), low-profile keys - may not care for it.

The mouse is perfect in its simplicity and has a nice heavy feel to it.

One very small annoyance: if you use the front USB slot on your computer - or any slot where the USB portion of the device is in view - the light may bother you. It's very bright and very blue - and it's on whenever you type or move the mouse. Thus, depending on what you're doing, it can be effectively blinking and quite distracting.

Good price for what you get
I love the thinness of the keyboard! And it's a really great product for being so cheap. I have two gripes with this product: a) The USB key turns a bright blue color when you are using this. If you have the USB key anywhere near your peripheral vision, this is a big distraction. I would love to turn it off but I haven't found out how to do that yet. b) The mouse clicking is LOUD.