The packaging for the Cyber Snipa mousepad is good, and even allows you to touch and feel the surface of the pad before you buy it. Now while this is a ‘basic’ pad (i.e. no power plug, LED's or similar in sight) it doesn’t come alone. You also get this pretty swank zip up pouch to keep the mousepad in. LAN gamers will appreciate this touch and the bag seems to be pretty durable.

The pad itself is a solid 2mm sheet of aluminum which makes it both light and durable. The overall concave edge shape is nothing outrageous but at the same time it’s enough of a difference to give it a non boring look. The surface is itself is the same as used on xRaider lineup and is pretty good. The three mice I used on this pad (two optical and one ball mouse) skated around very well indeed, although those who prefer a little grip might find the surface a little ‘fast’.

Turning the pad over we find a lattice work of foam, and this has proven to be very good in keeping the pad in place. It is actually very difficult to slide the pad without lifting it up, virtually impossible (at least not without using so much force that if you were at a LAN party you would have probably shoved it into the keyboard of the person sitting next to you) which is desirable. It also isn’t too thick, so the overall height of the mousepad sits it just 5mm from the desktop surface.

The box for the Keyboard is pretty standard for this sort of thing, although I did find it misleading somewhat. The image depicted on the front outlines the keyboard in blue, so I thought that like the game pad it also had blue LED lighting, but this is not the case. Inside, everything is laid out nicely with the wrist rest in its own compartment on top of the keyboard itself. Along with the keyboard and the wrist rest, you also get a driver CD for the multimedia functions.

The keyboard itself is shaped opposite to the mousepad being more convex around the edges but maintaining the black on silver appearance. You can of course get this keyboard in black on black. This is a full size keyboard with standard keys as you would expect on a standard keyboard; no laptop style buttons or lack there of. As you would expect, the left side of the keyboard features the letter keys and the right side has the keypad. The bottom row of keys is sloped downwards, and folks with small hands will find this nice as you can still rest your wrists on the rest without clipping the top of the bottom row of buttons.

Across the top of the left side we find the multimedia keys used to open/control your Internet functions, stop/play, control the volume, and even put the PC to sleep. These work as you would expect although I do wish there was someway to edit the programs that are opened. For example I’m a big fan of the Firefox web browser. Now while the Internet button will open your default web browser, the Favorites button opens the Explorer Favorites, not the Firefox Bookmarks. The Play/Pause button also only works in Windows Media Player; Winamp or any other media player is ignored. This is pretty standard for keyboards like this, but still it would be nice to be able to edit the key functions.