Logitech (920-000264) Wireless Keyboard and Mouse
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- Ergonomic Fit: Ergonomic Keyboard Layout
- Input Interface Type: Keyboard and Mouse
- Motion Device Type: Laser
- Connectivity: Wireless
- Interface: USB (Mouse) USB (keyboard)
- Platform: PC Mac
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Logitech Wave keyboard fits my hands just right!
Pros
Most comfy/natural keyboard I've ever used!
Cons
It's a little big, but every bit of that size has a useful function!
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
If you spend a lot of time on a computer (especially if your wrists hurt), I highly recommend this keyboard) It's the most comfortable one I've ever used!
I needed to replace the keyboard on my Sony Vaio VGC-RC210G. It had a wireless keyboard, but since I never took the keyboard off the desk anyway, I was just gonna get a cheap $15 wired keyboard...
Well, while I was in the store I tried this one, and I was so surprised & pleased with how it fit my hands, I ended up buying this $80 keyboard rather than the $15 one! (That says a lot!) I even tried every other keyboard in the store, and *none* of them felt as good as this one!
Here are some tips ... Leave your old keyboard & mouse hooked up while you're "installing" this one. Put the batteries in the mouse & keyboard, and plug in the USB dongle, let your computer auto-recognize it, and do the default install. Push the button on the USB dongle, and then push the buttons on the bottom of the mouse and keyboard for them to start talking. Probably a good time to unplug your old mouse & keyboard, and then maybe reboot your computer. Make sure the new mouse & keyboard are working - the "special keys" (such as calculator) probably won't work yet. Insert the Logitech install cd, and run 'Setup.exe', unselect the extra "junk" they ask if you want to install (2 things), and then let it install the keyboard support stuff. For me, it said there were no updates, but then when I started using the keyboard it told me there were updates twice - strange, but oh well.
Oh! - And you might see in some pictures the USB dongle on a cable, sitting on the desk in a stand. You do not *have* to use this extension & stand - I just plugged the dongle right into the USB port on the back of my PC (eliminating the cable and something that takes up desk space)!
Now, when I push the calculator button the Windows calculator runs, and when I push the music button Windows Media Player runs. When I'm playing a music cd, I can use the keys at the top middle to control play/pause/volume/forward/backward/etc. 2 keys along the left magnify/unmagnify whatever window you're looking at.
I was worried that the keyboard didn't have a "crescent-moon" button (to put the computer into sleep mode), but the button at the top/right of the keyboard seems to perform this function -yay! :)
I'm very happy with this purchase! I was skeptical about ergo/wave keyboards in general, because the ones I had typed on a few years ago had the left & right keys split apart & turned at an angle ... which totally throws off my touch-typing & takes several days to get used to (... and then several days to get used to a 'straight' keyboard again). Rather than re-orienting your wrists like that, this one just ever-so-slightly curves the keyboard, and most of the ergo fit is in the varying depth/height of the keys themselves -- whatever it is they did, it just simply "fits" my hands like a glove!
Note: I got a BS in Computer Science from NCSU in 1987, and I have been a programmer ever since, writing code all day long, and then "playing" on a computer once I get home -- I spend a *lot* of time on computers, and have used many different keyboards.
Well, while I was in the store I tried this one, and I was so surprised & pleased with how it fit my hands, I ended up buying this $80 keyboard rather than the $15 one! (That says a lot!) I even tried every other keyboard in the store, and *none* of them felt as good as this one!
Here are some tips ... Leave your old keyboard & mouse hooked up while you're "installing" this one. Put the batteries in the mouse & keyboard, and plug in the USB dongle, let your computer auto-recognize it, and do the default install. Push the button on the USB dongle, and then push the buttons on the bottom of the mouse and keyboard for them to start talking. Probably a good time to unplug your old mouse & keyboard, and then maybe reboot your computer. Make sure the new mouse & keyboard are working - the "special keys" (such as calculator) probably won't work yet. Insert the Logitech install cd, and run 'Setup.exe', unselect the extra "junk" they ask if you want to install (2 things), and then let it install the keyboard support stuff. For me, it said there were no updates, but then when I started using the keyboard it told me there were updates twice - strange, but oh well.
Oh! - And you might see in some pictures the USB dongle on a cable, sitting on the desk in a stand. You do not *have* to use this extension & stand - I just plugged the dongle right into the USB port on the back of my PC (eliminating the cable and something that takes up desk space)!
Now, when I push the calculator button the Windows calculator runs, and when I push the music button Windows Media Player runs. When I'm playing a music cd, I can use the keys at the top middle to control play/pause/volume/forward/backward/etc. 2 keys along the left magnify/unmagnify whatever window you're looking at.
I was worried that the keyboard didn't have a "crescent-moon" button (to put the computer into sleep mode), but the button at the top/right of the keyboard seems to perform this function -yay! :)
I'm very happy with this purchase! I was skeptical about ergo/wave keyboards in general, because the ones I had typed on a few years ago had the left & right keys split apart & turned at an angle ... which totally throws off my touch-typing & takes several days to get used to (... and then several days to get used to a 'straight' keyboard again). Rather than re-orienting your wrists like that, this one just ever-so-slightly curves the keyboard, and most of the ergo fit is in the varying depth/height of the keys themselves -- whatever it is they did, it just simply "fits" my hands like a glove!
Note: I got a BS in Computer Science from NCSU in 1987, and I have been a programmer ever since, writing code all day long, and then "playing" on a computer once I get home -- I spend a *lot* of time on computers, and have used many different keyboards.
