Good cause
No software required. universal use.
Reads cards every time! I use these in my retail store. Some configuration may be required to be changed in some with some point of sale systems. A tool to make these changes is avalible from the maufactures website. I loaded the HID profile for my setup. It was pretty easy to setup.
Correctly shows up in Windows 7/XP as USB interface device, no custom drivers necessary. Price was much cheaper than when I last bought some of these, a few years back.
This registered as a normal keyboard right out of the box with a driver included in Windows 7. It started "typing" credit card numbers right away and the prefix codes are apparently very standard because they read in filtered into our point of sale software just fine. I asked out staff after a few weeks and they said it has never missed a swipe that they can remember.