Binding: Electronics
Brand: LogitechLogitech
Color: Black
EAN: 0840356734279
Item Dimensions: 438667001614
Keyboard Description: QWERTY
Label: Logitech
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Logitech
Model: 967685-0403
MPN: 967685-0403
Publisher: Logitech
Special Features: nv:Keyboard Type: Keyboard; Connection Type: Wireless; Special Features: Bluetooth; Special Features: Elegant charging base; Special Features: TouchDiscTM scrolling; Special Features: Backlit stealth controls
Studio: Logitech
Variation Description: Black
Warranty: 3 years warranty
Features:
PerfectStroke key system - A precision micro-scissors mechanism distributes typing force evenly across key surfaces, making every stroke natural and fluid.
Stylishly sleek - Laser-cut from a single piece of Plexiglass and set in a brushed aluminum frame, the diNovo Edge makes a bold statement. Only 11 mm thick!
Elegant charging base - Put your keyboard on display while charging via the slim base/stand. Advanced Li-ion batteries recharge faster and last longer.
TouchDisc scrolling - A new type of touchpad, the TouchDisc unifies scrolling, selection, and cursor control. Scroll at hyperspeed with a touch of your finger.
Backlit stealth controls - Hidden hot keys light up at a touch, and fade into the background when not in use. The touch-sensitive volume slider gives you precise, fingertip audio control.
Rating: - Logitech Edge Keyboard
I've been looking for an attractive keyboard that could sit on our coffee table and not become an eyesore. This device was easy to install and has a very functional mouse pad that can be used with The SIMS product. Long battery life is another plus.
Rating: - Perfect except for the touchpad
I'm in the process of building an entertainment area in my master bedroom. It took me forever to get everything to play nicely with opensuse linux with the wireless card being the most difficult part. However, the keyboard worked right from the get go. The keys work well and five minutes charge is all you need for an entire day. I believe two hours charges it completely, which supposedly is a month.
I love the fact that even the volume slider works in linux without having to mess with it. If you "tap-tap" and hold the second tap, you can drag a window without needing the mouse pad at all! You do this on the title part of the open window. You can also scroll up and down or left and right just by using the touch pad and not having to look for scroll bars.
Why not five stars? In two words; the touchpad. It's serviceable and if you're using it as I am (just to service the computer-as entertainment centerpiece), it's fine. However, it's too small and awkwardly placed to the right of the keyboard. You can't really feel for it and have to look every time you need it. Anyone who uses a laptop will have a hard time dealing with this odd placement. The odd placement also doesn't lend itself to what most people do with a touchpad; click with the left hand and move the mouse with the other. Because you have to reach both hands to the right to do this and you have to look before you do this, you'll find your productivity going down. I guess I got used to it.
Finally, the touch scroll on the touch pad is not the easiest to use. I also have a mac book and scrolling is simple; you want to scroll, use two fingers. You want to just move the mouse normally? Just use one finger. Everyone who hasn't used the mac book always comments about how intuitive it is. With the Edge, you have to find the touchpad. THEN, you have to find a tiny little bump at 3 o'clock. You put your finger on this bump, then start making circles clockwise to scroll down and counter-clockwise to scroll up. There's a similar bump at 12 o'clock to do horizontal scrolling. Simply put, you'll have a hard time being as productive with this touch pad as you would with the mac book touchpad. Finally, it's a little on the pricey side. I thought a sec before buying it.
Overall, however, I'd recommend this keyboard.
***EDIT***
One more important thing I forgot to note. The keyboard has a connect button on the back of it. There's a corresponding button on the bluetooth receiver. For whatever reason, if the two lose contact with each other (only happened once to me), you press the button on the back of the keyboard, then do the same on the bluetooth receiver and everything is working again. HOWEVER, the placement on the back of the keyboard is horrible. I found myself continually pressing it just trying to pick it up from the charging stand. To avoid this, you have to remember to pick it up from a spot other than the middle, which is where you would instinctively pick it up from. Otherwise, you then have to go to your receiver and press the button on it to complete the connection process, which you mistakenly started by pressing the button on the keyboard. They obviously didn't let their people play with this. Otherwise, they would have definitely moved the button somewhere else.
Rating: - Great Keyboard
This is the nicest keyboard I have ever used. The quality is undeniable. It is thin, sleek, on the smaller side, pretty to look at and very responsive. What I don't like is that it is missing a number pad (not a big knock but certainly a drawback), the touch pad is nice but not easier to use than a mouse and you will really need to get a mouse, and finally, the function keys which have pre-assigned functions for media play, do not illuminate their assigned function except when it is plugged into the recharging dock... huh...? I'm not sure why they bothered to include the lights if they aren't used. It forces you to remember their functions, which is fine but why not give the user an assist? Since it is a bluetooth (battery powered device) I'm sure that has something to do with power consumption but then why have the lights at all?
I use both Windows Vista and Linux Ubuntu (Gusty Gibbon) and the keyboard worked out of the box on both... even the touch pad and volume slider. In Ubuntu I needed to assign the media function keys but this was very easy with the keyboard utility which Ubuntu has.
I am really pleased with the keyboard and would highly recommend it. I would also not want to use any other keyboard, but it is not perfect. Logitech needs to include a number pad and either do away with the touch pad or make it as easy to use as a mouse. They could go a long way toward this by increasing the size of the pad slightly, creating a separate scroll button or slider and doing away with or changing the location of the primary left and right mouse buttons which are awkwardly located below the touch pad making it extremely difficult to exert the pressure necessary to hold down while moving the mouse. I found myself using the additional left mouse button which is conveniently located on the left side of the keyboard almost exclusively. The pad has a really well designed touch sensitivity which prevents accidental "tapping/selection" when you are just touching it to move the pointer. I really appreciate this since it is a big knock I have against most touch pads on laptop computers that always seem to select when you just want to move the pointer. I think they are very close to having a touch pad that might be as functional as a mouse but it isn't quite there and as hard as you might try (I did), you will revert to a mouse, making the touch pad a superfluous artifact.
If you expect to use a mouse, and don't use numbers much, I don't think you will be disappointed with this keyboard.
Rating: - looks nice, performs poorly
Add poor quality of the manufacture of this keyboard to the cons:
The Delete key started loosening after a few days, almost at the same time as the rather nifty touch-control for sound started living its own life, leaving music hovering from the meek to the deafening within seconds.
This in addition to the other pros (good design, good key touch) and cons (no numeric keyboard, uncommon key layout).
Definitively not the best product Logitech ever produced and well below what one might expect.
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