And I'm back.

[keith_h]

After a brief fling with a fortigate device I'm back. This time I'm packing a Zotac C1327 which seems to be OK and certainly adequate for home. All I need now is to work out how to disable the wireless, and I'm done.

https://www.zotac.com/us/product/mini_pcs/ci327-nano

Btw, untangle devs, love your work.

[manilx]

Running a ZOTAC ZBOX CI547 nano here. Just perfect though in hindsight overkill. Lower spec models would be sufficient.

[jcoffin]

Awesome, thanks for posting the outcome.

[keith_h]

And here it is...

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[jcoehoorn]

Ugh, one of those nasty K400 keyboard/trackpad combos. I'm still stuck with about 20 of them in classrooms, and my instructors hate them because the up arrow intrudes where the shift key should be. The K400+ replacement model or MS All-In-One Media keyboard are much better. I'm slowly (3 or 4 per year) replacing the K400 with K400+.

[keith_h]

Its convenient because all you need do is plug in the dongle and away you go. I have one for the media PC, and another for general duties. I imagine as an actual keyboard/mouse substitute it might not make the grade.

[JasonJoel]

Ugh, one of those nasty K400 keyboard/trackpad combos. I'm still stuck with about 20 of them in classrooms, and my instructors hate them because the up arrow intrudes where the shift key should be. The K400+ replacement model or MS All-In-One Media keyboard are much better. I'm slowly (3 or 4 per year) replacing the K400 with K400+.

Completely agree. The K400 layout is awful. I use a lot of K400+ and those are good, based on user feedback.

[jcoehoorn]

Its convenient because all you need do is plug in the dongle and away you go.

No doubt. I love the concept. The general form factor is amazing for home theater and classroom applications. I use the MS model at home, and I'm transitioning to put the K400+ in every single classroom at work. That's more than 30 rooms. I'm preferring the K400+ over the MS option because K400+ uses AA batteries while MS uses AAA. My server server room even has that exact same model keyboard in the picture that I scavenged after replacing one in a classroom with the better K400+ model.

It's just the implementation of that specific K400 model really sucks. Fix the up arrow key and all is well again.

[keith_h]

Anything else that dooms this keyboard other than the up arrow key?? Should I replace it immediately.

I have concerns now...

[jcoehoorn]

No, just that bad arrow key layout. But that's bad enough to make it unusable for day-to-day work. For infrequent use, where you're mainly just typing in a password now and then, it's fine. Just don't buy another one like that; the K400+ is the same price now, and so much better.