First and foremost... HAH! I got it before you cyber, so I get to do the review on it

Earlier this year, I found myself with money to spend and wanting a new keyboard. So I went and got a Logitech MX5000 wireless bluetooth keyboard and mouse combo. The voices in my head said "Buy it! It's on special, and even cheaper because the box is damaged! The mini-LCD and touch controls are awesome!".

Damn those voices.

It was a great relationship. Casual gaming on XP. The very slight lag in response didn't matter. It only dropped out during the first few days of use. It had lots of buttons and fancy stuff.

But then I betrayed it. I upgraded to Vista x64, and with the upgrade came many woes. For months, I put up with it's bitching and moaning. It's dropping out every few hours, always at the most innopportune times. Eventually, with the announcement of the Verbatim Rapier V1, I decided enough was enough. However, with the new mouse (when it get's released eventually...), I will need a new keyboard. So I set out looking now. And out of the many contenders, came forth victorious the Logitech Wave Corded Keyboard.

Exiting from it's box, as it crosses the finish line miles ahead of the rest, it peels out of it's 'dust cover' (well, plastic thing they put over it to protect the keyboard during shipping, more like it..), unravels it's USB cord, and majestically plugs itself in to any available USB port, dazzling the user in glory like an athlete winning a gold medal.

Just like the insides of most of our athletes (/glares at footballers), the box was rather empty. Unlike the insides of most of our athletes, this athlete contained a keyboard, CD and manual. If only our athletes contained those too, the world might be a better place.

[we interrupt this live broadcast to alert you to the fact I already had Logitech's SetPoint software installed from my previous keyboard, so I'll skip the installtion bit. You don't have to install it. It just makes most of the buttons do nifty things]

Installing itself in an olympic record time of [null] (ok, so it looks like I forgot to time it, and we'll ignore setpoint's install and update time), it's ready to move on to the next event, being typed upon to bring forth this review to the internet.

Taking an early lead in this second event is the wave, taking advantage of it's three years of design to make it all wavey. After a few sentences of consistent errors, the fingers of the user quickly become accustomed to the new shape. (I still however consistently type "the" as "teh" by accident. It gets really annoying). Giving off a very nice feel to them, the keys help the keyboard take an even stronger lead.

However, this is a long race. I find myself getting bored. Oh, what's this I see? *presses random button* Oooh, a button to trigger the windows vista window flippy thing! *scrolls really fast through all the windows* Oh, well now that was fun. But I now find myself sitting at Winamp. Hrm, some standard media keys. I love this song. Volume up! What a stupid idea, there's two buttons to open media players (An actual media player button and a media center one). Let's make one do something else! Now it opens up one of my hard drives in an explorer window! Huzzah! Usefulness!

*presses the vista window flippy thing and scrolls through a few more*

Oh, crap, I'm writing a review. I'd better get back to that, as much fun as the 3D task flipper is...

As far as a gaming keyboard goes, it's quite alright. Ocassionally if you don't hold the key down properly, the contact will release and you'll stop moving forward even though you're holding the key down properly. Granted, it's an office keyboard so this wouldn't be a problem in that instance. But I'm a gamer, dammit. I expect perfection. (You call this a keyboard?! I call it a ... uh... damn. My WittyRemarkUnit (tm) has run out of batteries...)

Ignoring the last minor issue (which, as I said, you just need to make sure you do actually firmly hold down they keys), it's a fantastic keyboard. All the fancy buttons you can poke a finger at, a very nice wrist wrest, fantasticly ergonomic and all that nice stuff.

Other things it could improve on:
-Backlit keys (again, this is an office keyboard, so it's really not needed in that situation)
-Making the contact point for presseing keys a bit higher to fix the above problem
-A USB hub of some form in the back of it (Nothing an external hub can't do, but it is convenient being able to plug your mouse in to your keyboard).
-A context menu button (The one between right control and the right start button). Yes. I use that button. DON'T LOOK AT ME FUNNY! D= it's a freaking useful key if you're a key monkey like me... screw the mouse. (wait, no, don't)
-Make the media keys a little less ... toyish? They're perfectly adquate, but they're just a little .. flimsy to touch. Actually pressing them is perfectly alright.

Apart from those moot points, quite a good keyboard, especially if you do a lot of typing!
Oh, and did I mention it's cheap? (Picked up for $50 at office works)

9.5/10