[joebrady]

I just bough a AGPTEK Mini Wireless Keyboard
(http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...-_-text-_-)
to play with on my bedroom pc so I could move my NYXboard over to my Raspberry Pi. Since the wife decided to spill a cup of tea on both, I brought them into work to open them up and clean them. I figured while I had them open I'd snap some shots for comparison.








Will try to add some pros/cons of both later on....

[joebrady]

[joebrady]

AGPTEK Mini Wireless Keyboard

Pros:
Cheap
worked out of the box on my Win7 machine
smooth mouse functions, w/ left and right click buttons on the left for ease of use
larger size for easy typing on kb
good RF range on KB/mouse side

Cons:
Cheap (construction/materials)
Soft/Squishy buttons (have to press exactly in the middle of button to register)
"Remote" side is IR only.
very directional IR

[joebrady]

NYXboard (copied from another site)

Pros:
- Potential to reduce remote clutter in the household
- Ability to take advantage of HDMI CEC capabilities (when bundled with the HDMI CEC adapter from Pulse-Eight, the RF mode can also be used for this purpose)
- RF and IR combination is quite useful in HTPC setups
- Excellent RF range (more than 38 ft.) and decent IR range (around 18 ft.)
- Solid construction makes it a pleasure to use, and hands down, the best remote to use with XBMC (in our opinion)
- Accidental key presses on the underside of the remote are rightfully ignored
- The mouse feature (Fn + arrow pad) is as good as it can be in the absence of a trackpad

Cons:
- Single profile availability for IR programming, i.e, unlike the Logitech Harmony remotes which can have multiple devices configured, this is a learning remote where each key can be programmed to correspond to only one key from another remote in the IR mode.
- Remote is very sensitive to orientation. Casual remote usage (such as holding the remote at an angle to the horizontal plane -- as is common when one is couch surfing) is bound to shift between the keyboard side and the remote side which is sometimes frustrating for the users
- The IR remote's spread / operating angle is a bit on the lower side, which is irksome if one is used to a device-specific remote with better operating angles.
- The absence of dedicated Alt and Ctrl keys renders the remote incapable of replacing a full-fledged keyboard / mouse combination if the HTPC is used for extended periods of time outside of XBMC or any other 10-foot UI program
- Orientation sensing makes it a pain to use with Firefox (or any other program which might use F7 for any purpose)