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I think most people here are in a very firm or serious relationship with their keyboard. (I know I am with my Corsair mechanical). Would love to see this as a usb device that the keyboard plugs into. Would think monitoring key presses on the middle man device would not be to hard?
> I think most people here are in a very firm or serious relationship with their keyboard.
I've been using the K810 [1] for some time for all my computers. I find it absolutely brilliant to type on (being mostly in vim, the awkward home/end, page up/down, arrows etc don't matter very much), and it also has the ability to switch between 3 paired bluetooth devices. There is also the Lenovo Thinkpad Compact Bluetooth [2], which I haven't tried, but allegedly "features a simplified pairing with the system thro…
What are the physical dimensions of K810? It is strange that Logitech does not specify them as it did for K480.
Height 20 mm (0.79 inches) Width 299 mm (11.77 inches) Depth 195 mm (7.68 inches) Weight 820 g (1.81 pounds)
The K810 requires a touch more to track down, but: Width 287 mm (11.30 inch) Depth/Length 127 mm (5.0 inch) Height 5 - 10 mm (0.20 - 0.39 inch) Weight 337 g (11.89 ounce)
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The only gripe I have with using bluetooth keyboards for my desktop is that batteries seem to drain much faster than the models using proprietary dongles. What is your experience with the K810 ?
This is why I love my K750 with integrated solar panels. No batteries to worry about; it just works, always. And it's great to type on.
Add a solar cell to power it, and I'm in. The K760 and K750 are amazing, simply because I never have to worry about cords or batteries.
I'd take batteries over a keyboard which might not work in low or no light. Seems like a gimmick.
That rotary knob looks awfully easy to break. There has to be a better interface than physically moving your hand up to the knob to change which device has focus. Also if this could also charge your devices that would be awesome also.
Also honestly given the location and the likelihood of multitasking (say typing something on an HDTV, switching to a phone to type out a lengthy text message, and then back to a tv) I can't see an automated solution working well. You could do some NFC so that the slot would recognize a new thing being placed, but you'd still need an a way to switch away from it.
Charging would be a useful feature though.
Wow! That's actually rather innovative! As a replacement for a "main" desktop keyboard, it looks a bit on the too-optimized-for-mobility side of things with chiclet-style small keys and so on. I bet it will appear in many people's living rooms though, since seems very well designed (I love the device-selection knob!) for in-couch computing environments to control pads, phones, consoles or perhaps set-top boxes.
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"fraction of the cost" - assuming you already own a Mac. For us non-OSX users, it is much cheaper to consider the Logitech :)
You don't have to own a Mac to own an Apple keyboard - they're compatible with Windows, OSX and many flavors of nix
On the surface, that's true, but there can be little annoyances related to function key behavior, etc. on non-Mac OSes. Apple provides a Windows driver, but they don't appear to offer the keyboard configurator in Boot Camp to non-Mac owners.
I loved that thing all the way up until I saw that ctrl and fn were swapped from the standard layout =-( Otherwise, I know of quite a few people who could really use this thing!
Logitech has other multi bluetooth keyboards. Ever since I broke my apple one I changed over to this one ( http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/illuminated-keyboard-f... ) Logitech Model #K811. To change device, I hit fn + f1,f2,f3 and it takes about 5-10 seconds to pair to the other device. I believe I have to hit fn since I changed it to use the standard F keys by default.
Multitasking in a single screen is not a good idea. Multitasking in three screens can only make it worse. Very nice productivity killer though.
Personally, I wouldn't use this to switch between three screens at the same time, but rather using it to not have to pair it every single time I use the keyboard on a different device. That's quite frustrating.
Pairing every single time is actually a plus for me: It acts as a barrier to avoid multitasking in different devices.
I wish there was some kind of dongle I could plug my das keyboard into that would give me the multi-device feature without sacrificing on the actual keyboard part.
Here ya go: http://www.aten.com/products/productItem.php?model_no=cs533 I haven't used it, but I have looked at it for the same reason.