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    Compact wireless keyboards with trackballs

    I'm looking for a nice and compact wireless keyboard with embedded track{ball,pad} to use on my media center (MythTV Linux).

    Suggestions?

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    Re: Compact wireless keyboards with trackballs

    Not sure what these actual models are like, but in general Emprex keyboards are decent, solid and good quality.
    http://www.emprex.com/02_products_02...41df5754de239a
    http://www.emprex.com/02_products_02...41df5754de239a

    Theos are the sort of things you're on about?

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    Re: Compact wireless keyboards with trackballs

    Range and spec is good on those, but they're still quite big - don't really need full-size keys as I'm 95% of the time my old MCE remote does the job - it's just for media library searches, web radio and such (until MythTV sorts out its music library, or I do it for them )
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    Re: Compact wireless keyboards with trackballs

    I know they did used to do a smaller one that didn't have such a large frame.

    It looked a bit like this keyboard http://cpc.farnell.com/perixx/peribo...all/dp/CS16560
    I have even less idea what that would be like

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    Re: Compact wireless keyboards with trackballs

    Lol a keyboard from Farnell... I could buy some capacitors while I'm at it. That's more like it, still looks to have full size keys though. Trouble is I'm not sure what terms to search for.

    Ooh... if this wasn't hideous, then maybe... http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?moduleno=264584
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    Re: Compact wireless keyboards with trackballs

    Actually we might have a winner here

    The Lenovo N5901 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO2af7BwHsw
    I've found a few entries on ebay for this for around £40

    EDIT: yep keyboard from farnell how I know about the quality of emprex, we needed some small mini-keyboards at work, I had a great deal of hassle trying to find ones that don't use scissor action keys (as the kids trash laptop keyboards) and I found the emprex mini-keyboards in the farnell catalog, got a couple to try out and they've been so good we got a dozen more.
    It's a good test of quality, if it can survive daily 11-18year old kids it can survive almost anything

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    Re: Compact wireless keyboards with trackballs

    I've found a more elegant, and extraordinarily, free, solution.

    http://android.collaud.net/en/multir...telechargement

    Now my phone is my mouse/keyboard for my media center. Works on Win/Mac/Lin too, awesomesauce.

    Still, thanks for the help.
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