| Have been using a Sculpt keyboard since around 2015. One thing that seems to alleviate the problems of missed keys and the keyboard going to sleep (at least on Windows): in the Device Manager, look for the connection dongle (it should be connected via the USB Root Hub) and edit its Power Management settings to disable "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power." I haven't had any issues with the laptop going to sleep when it's told with this setting enabled, and afaik battery life is unaffected (still haven't changed batteries in the keyboard after 3 years). Regardless, I'll still be checking out this mod. I didn't even know this keyboard had LEDs in it. Suggestions for Microsoft product developers if they ever read this or care: 1. Fn keys have got to be like the rest of the keys. Like other users here, I get F5 (which I use to run code in Visual Studio) stuck probably greater than 50% of the time. 2. Separate Fn key, or separate media keys. The switch is stupid, and I never use the non-Fn functions. 3. Take the calculator key off the main keyboard; it's a duplicate of the key on the numpad, where it is actually useful. 4. I'm ok with the backspace key on the numpad, but the top 3 keys should be regular keys, not microswitches. 5. Better power management and wake-from-sleep. This thing should never be dropping keystrokes. Ever. I'd trade battery life for this feature. 6. Make wired optional! Almost everything has a charger these days...why am I given alkaline batteries for this? This also potentially opens up the gamer market, given the latency reduction shown in this article. |
Coupling of dongle with keyboard and mouse is another design issue that deserves changing the entire team - if dongle goes out (and I have 2 that did) you can basically throw away working mouse and keyboard. WTF man ?! Its enough that your laptop goes hot for a month or so to make dongle unusable by melting its electronics.
I have 3 sculpt keyboards and never had one go to sleep on different Windows 10 systems over 2 years ?
One other thing that goes to my nerve is how hand pads look unclean after only month or two of usage, I am basically ashamed when people look at it. Its not possible to keep it clean.
Otherwise, awesome keyboard :)