I was looking for a home office keyboard that wasn't too expensive but would stand up to normal use. On cheap keyboards with painted lettering, letters on regular keys wear out after about 6-8 months and the keys have been described as not wearing out. Unfortunately, after about 2 weeks I already saw signs of wear and after about a month I was missing spots of key lacquer (the letters are not lacquered, but the keys themselves are lacquered, not the plastic is actually lacquered). I could handle it for a while as it was wireless and otherwise worked except shortly after I had connection issues. Initially, when I started a sentence, the first letter would not print, then it would increase to about every fifth word, a "missing" letter since it didn't convey every keystroke. After all it's now under my desk as a backup and I've reverted to the cheaper keyboard I had previously set aside (minus the paint on the keys) and I'm back on the hunt for something that isn't a full game keyboard, a keyboard that costs five times as much. While it worked, it WAS a good keyboard, but I work in IT so I can't have account lockouts due to mistyped passwords when the keyboard decides which letters to send.