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this is the Microsoft arc it's not out yet but we do have a sample here to show you today this is a wireless style that works that's their little slogan for it Wireless PC and Mac keyboard and they're they're famous okay yeah that it's style that works so it's a stylish small little keyboard that's meant to be I would imagine well here's what I would use it for okay I'm not gonna tell you what it's for cuz I don't know what they intended for but I would use this from the coach to control my media center because it's exactly the kind of size that you can comfortably put it in your lap but still be able to comfortably type actually we'll find out if we can comfortably type once I actually get it out of the box but okay here we go why don't we see what what Microsoft has to say about it meet the art keyboard with beautiful curves and a compact design it's at home wherever you are okay so in my case on the couch excellent you can show it off clean lines and an eye-catching shape compliment your style here there anywhere something about using it anywhere and be free also something about using it anywhere they have a little picture of the nano transceiver for wireless freedom okay so let's find the seals and I do not have anything even remotely resembling a knife on me okay here hold on actually just a sec I have a fork and I will just use that to pierce the sticker and then hopefully the whole sticker will come away from for me and then we'll go from there or I could just peel the sticker bear with me here just gonna peel the sticker up because my fork has lasagna on it and I think that that would be not quite sanitary especially because like well you know old lasagna isn't really a very sanitary things you put on stuff that's my wisdom for the day okay so here we are it is covered in a little cloth sheath that is to protect it from scratches I'm assuming and also to make the presentation of this is actually excellent this so you open up your box you get a little sheath pocket envelope thing here made of like a nice cloth II material then you get oh this is nice so this is would be a CD and probably your users guide start here helpfully labeled even so you write here so this must be a QuickStart guide so they show you how to put in the batteries put in the wireless transceiver and then press the buttons in order to link it up oh cool oh that's a neat system so basically to turn the keyboard okay to turn the keyboard on or off press and hold function and escape until the battery light changes and then that's it huh can you dope okay then you've got a Microsoft product guide here which probably includes some warranty information as well okay two triple A batteries it's not a big fan of triple-a batteries but when you try to make a device as compact as possible sometimes it's unavoidable it's just that they're sort of them more as expensive as double A's and you don't get more battery life out of them etcetera etc they're not really my favorite thing but let's get this our keyboard out of here that is nice actually so you can see it has a slight curve to it hence the name arc and on the bottom is a cleverly designed little compartment for the double or triple A batteries to nilam all screwed up for the triple-a batteries and then right here is the little nano transceiver is that I love it held in by a magnet look at that so you never have to worry about it coming up as long as you know you don't have a curious toddler that comes along and eats it anyway that's really convenient and then the top of the keyboard itself so I'm gonna apologize in advance for the crotch shot here I'm just gonna go ahead and put this on my lap and actually that's not bad you can comfortably reach all the buttons it is a very standard layout so you can see that you've got long shift keys on both sides you've got a long Enter key so it doesn't have any of the weird bilingual keys that cut off your shift or the the strangely located slash key that would cut your backspace down to the we're I mean if you have small hands reaching a back space beyond about here is completely unreasonable so yeah I I personally hate the short backspace key you've got all of your function keys no you do not oh this is interesting okay in order to save space what they've done with the layout is a they've only got one Windows key so there's no Windows key on the right hand side that's a function key oh and this appears to be a mouse that is something I didn't know that oh no these are your arrows okay so here are all the things that they've managed to make more compact they've removed the Windows key put in a function key they've turned the control the right control into the arrow keys which is a one d-pad button okay then up here they've actually got F 1 2 F 6 and then you use the function key in order to access f 7 to F 12 great that works for me and then we've got all of our home and page up page down and print screen all in for buttons right here and then they've even included media buttons so you've got mute louder and quieter and then delete and insert but no no play stop pause that's a little bit disappointing given what I personally would be using something like this for but I mean really if you have a Media Center you should probably own one of these already anyway it's like the most useful 15 dollars or whatever it costs that I've ever spent on a hardware component in fact I own three anyway thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the arc I still think the coolest feature is the magnetic transceiver that's so cool thank you again for checking out my unboxing of the Microsoft arc