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Re: Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard

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Post by antisthenes »

Is Logitech even a good value buy these days? Feels like they are just pumping out the most generic chinese-made crap with their logo/brand and riding their old reputation rather than doing anything innovative.

This keyboard is a prime example.

Too late. (Mechanical keyboard hype started 10-12 years ago)

Too expensive. (My first mechanical KB was $30. Yes, that's right. If I didn't spill stuff on it, it would still be working. Still hard to justify paying more than $100 for a single peripheral).

Too Meh. (styling looks pretty generic and not really unique enough to tickle the novelty factor for the enthusiasts.)

Seriously though, I can't name a single reason this is better than any other mechanical KB in the market.

Re: Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard

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Post by bronikowski »

dotancohen wrote: post #230
bayindirh wrote: post #43

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I'd rather tend my fountain pen collection in that time instead. Sorry for being so crude and tasteless. :)

I'm also a mechanical keyboard aficionado and I always write with a fountain pen. It's probably not an uncommon correlation of interest, all things considered.

It's a common joke on r/fountainpens. I think there's a subreddit covering fountain pens, mechanical keyboards and, if my memory serves me, headphones.

Re: Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard

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Post by robotburrito »

TAKEMYMONEY wrote: post #350
ceeplusplus wrote: post #321

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It's certainly not 15% marketshare among premium corporate users. I bet if you condition on the company spending at least $700/unit on laptops for their employees, Apple's marketshare is more like 70%.

And they're buying the shitty Apple keyboards to go along with them. It's not realistic for Logitech to target the "we screwed up where the modifier keys are" aka "Apple layout" market on their first launch.

The Apple keyboards in my experience are pretty nice. I often use it as it is easier on my fingers and causes less joint pain.

Re: Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard

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Post by jkaptur »

dmix wrote: post #326
jkaptur wrote: post #276

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I used a Das Keyboard for over a decade and loved it. Now I've switched to a Drop Alt so I can hotswap "better" switches and run QMK, which I've grown completely dependent on ( https://jkaptur.com/layout/ ). For me, keyboards like Das Keyboard, Alt, Ctrl, etc. are the perfect satisfice: good keyboards, at a price that's not terrible, with a time & research commitment that falls below the level of "hobby". I could eas…

What's the logic of using a tiny 40% keyboard like the guy uses in that blog post? Just adding effort to add additional keys using capslock.

People have different preferences: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/37pw1s...

That said (author here), I actually use a 65% for daily use. The 40% was too small for me to use comfortably. I could get used to the caps lock for arrow keys and text editing stuff, but having to remember shortcuts to type a semicolon just wasn't for me.

Re: Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard

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Post by fuzzy2 »

ascagnel_ wrote: post #226
metaphor wrote: post #40

> Compatibility: Logi Bolt USB Receiver[^11] > [^11] Not compatible with Logitech Unifying USB Receiver technology So you'll have to throw away your existing MX Anywhere 3 and repurchase this seemingly vaporware "for Business" variant[1] if you want a single transceiver for mouse+keyboard? Hmm... [1] https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/mice/mx-anywhere-3-f...

The decision to go from Unifying to Bolt is mystifying to me, since there's seemingly no user-facing benefit. It makes upgrading less enticing -- they should have either rolled out a new set of peripherals that all supported Bolt at the same time, or they should have rolled out an interim generation that supported both Bolt and Unifying.

Isn't the Unifying encryption broken beyond recovery or something? Either way, more secure connections for something as critical as input data are very welcome IMHO.

That being said, for office work I'm satisfied with Bluetooth. No extra dongles is a huge plus, too.

Re: Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard

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Post by candyman »

It might be hard to love Logitech as a brand but I've been satisfied with a number of their products and keyboards and mice are important to me. I'm typing for hours a day so it matters. I'm getting older and arthritis sucks so a good mouse helps some. (Although the roller keyboard thing is cool and I'm playing with it some.) Logitech is making it a little weird with the different wireless dongles. For example the MX Master 3 Business mouse uses Bolt but the MX Master 3 uses the older one. And now the Logitech "options" software has the regular and the "beta" which seems to be more for Bolt. I'm not going to buy this keyboard for now since I have plenty. (My most recent was a Drop that was really fun to customize and put together. I can't use it as a "daily driver" because I rely on the extra numeric keypad for work but it's my "convertible" for sunny days!

Re: Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard

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Post by TAKEMYMONEY »

robotburrito wrote: post #363
TAKEMYMONEY wrote: post #350

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And they're buying the shitty Apple keyboards to go along with them. It's not realistic for Logitech to target the "we screwed up where the modifier keys are" aka "Apple layout" market on their first launch.

The Apple keyboards in my experience are pretty nice. I often use it as it is easier on my fingers and causes less joint pain.

Vs mechanical? Apples and oranges, not totally relevant to the GP. (Prefer my Magic A1843 no other non-mechs though I guess).

Re: Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard

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Post by piaste »

Pet_Ant wrote: post #306
bayindirh wrote: post #116

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In my case, for the G710+ case especially, I did my research, understood what I want, did additional research and pulled the trigger. Being happy with what I've ended with, I didn't dive deeper into that rabbit hole, because I have more important things to do than tweaking keyboards. I'm like that. Do my research, pull the trigger once, consider the problem solved and move on. Having many hats and ambitions limits on…

You are not the target market. There are not enough people like you to justify a product. If you like the keyboard great, but who is their target? People who have heard of “mechanical = good” and know the Logitech brand. It’s just a weird niche compared to many more people who come into mechanical keyboards from the hobbyist tinkerer side of things.

> There are not enough people like you to justify a product. If you like the keyboard great, but who is their target? People who have heard of “mechanical = good” and know the Logitech brand.

I bet this category easily outnumbers all massdrop hypebeasts or Cherry switch sommeliers out there.

In the same way that middle-upper class men who want a nice pair of headphones, vaguely remember that "high impedance = good" and know the Sennheiser brand easily outnumber audiophiles.

Re: Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard

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Post by Izikiel43 »

falsenapkin wrote: post #212
chadash wrote: post #180

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The MX Master 3 mouse is far and away the best mouse I've ever used. It switches easily between computers, feels great, has great functionality and most importantly, doesn't leave my wrist hurting at the end of the day (which I what brought me to try it out in the first place). Yes, I can look into other options, but this is targeting people like me, who are already in the logitech ecosystem and are happy there. I ca…

Unlike their fantastic pointing devices, the keyboards are always lacking some killer feature. MX Ergo, MX Master, MX Anywhere, MX Vertical all have something that basically no other brand offers. What have the MX keyboards offered? This is a generic mech, another one had a scroll wheel... where's the no fuss tenting split with thumb features beating function and price point of the an Ergodox or Keyboardio?

I don't know about mx keyboards, but I love their ergo keyboard:

https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/keyboards/k860-split...

Between that and the MX ergo, bye bye wrist pain.

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