Samsung Pleomax PKB-4500 Review

I recently bought this keyboard after a long search to replace my badly built Genius KB-19e NB. Genius keyboards are to avoid at all cost, there are other brands, for the same price range, that build better keyboards, Genius are awful. (UPDATE: The KB-19e has loosened up the keys with time and it's working quite well now. It still has a poor key layout but the scissor keys are great. The rest of them are still very bad, you're better off with Logitech, for instance, although more expensive.)

This one sells for about 20eur here in Portugal, and I'm very pleased with it, at least for now, no defects have popped up. Time will tell if it can handle heavy usage or not.
The design is very sleek, yet very simple, so it should please most people aesthetically. The keys are soft like butter, haven't seen many keyboards lately that can stand up to it in this area. That also reflects in the noise the keyboard makes while you are typing, it is one of the most silent keyboards around.
The overall layout is very good, even being a compact keyboard, the only exception is the bad placement of the "Windows Key" and the "Menu Key". Most of the time I'm pressing the "Menu key" thinking I'm pressing the other one.
The layout of keys like "Page Up" and "Page Down" is a bit strange, but most keyboards nowadays don't follow the standard layout anymore, not to mention laptops, so after a bit of use it's not strange anymore.
Although this picture doesn't show it, the keyboard is pretty slim, not the slimmest around, but it still makes for some comfortable typing.

Looking at the package as a whole, I have to recommend this, it is one of the finest keyboards I have ever had the pleasure to use.
It's a humbling lesson to many manufacturers out there, including Logitech, whose cheap budget keyboards leave a lot to be desired. (original comments left here for reference, not valid anymore)
Please read the follow up to the review, a year of use later.