The Thermaltake Soprano Keyboard has a brushed and polished aluminum base. The keyboard is slightly angled to create a zero-degree tilt to create a relaxing hold. Unlike most keyboards the Soprano has flat set of keys rather than the typical raised keys. They keyboard feels more like a laptop keyboard than a regular keyboard. Everything is so crammed together that it does feel like a laptop keyboard. Surrounding the keyboard on all sides is the aluminum finish of which there is at least an inch of extra space on any given side.

The A-Z, 0-9 keys are all the standard keyboard size. The enter key takes up two rows and the / and \ keys are moved around. The Shift, Alt, Ctrl, and Windows keys are all miniature in size. The arrow keys are tightly crammed right underneath the enter key and, of course, are smaller in size.

The function keys plus other various keys you would find along the top of the keyboard are all shrunken down to the same size. However the Numpad has no key size differences than any other keyboard.

In the upper left hand corner of the keyboard are some hotkeys. They consist of a homepage, email, favorites, search, volume up, mute, and volume down button. Other than the volume adjustments there are no other multimedia keys on this keyboard. What I find really strange about the volume keys is that they are arranged from left to right: volume up, mute, and volume down. Now last time I checked the volume up button is always found on the right, rather than the left. I think Thermaltake got this one bass ackwards.

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