Logitech Cordless Desktop EX110 (967561-0403)
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Customer Review: Customer Support - Not so much!
Summary: 2 Stars
The first of these that I bought, the feet that holds the keyboard up at an angle broke within two months. This was NOT from hard use. I got a second one by persistence with their customer support. The second one I have had for a year or so and the same thing happened with the feet. Customer support tells me there are no replacement parts for this and since mine is now out of warranty, I'm out of luck. Now I can either lean the thing on a book or buy a new one. I'm going to buy a new one - I promise you it won't be Logitech. If they are going to have cheap flimsy parts that fall apart with normal use, the least they could do is provide replacements. As for other factors, it operated adequately, burned through batteries at a prodigious rate and never did have the feel that is really comfortable. I may have been generous in my star ratings.Customer Review: Junked the Mouse
Summary: 1 Stars
The keyboard works great, but the mouse in this combo is garbage. The connection is tenuous at best, and you find yourself often having to reset it just to get it to move the cursor. Speaking of moving the cursor, when it does move, it is jerky, and often just jumps back to the lower left hand corner of the screen for no apparent reason. The reaction time to mouse clicks is horrible, if it even responds at all, and renders this piece of junk worthless. I finally gave up on this glorified laser mounted paper weight and reconnected my USB mouse. Why is it that Microsoft, predominately a software company, can make a wireless X-Box controller than works perfectly from across the room, while Logitech, who specializes in controller hardware, can't make a wireless mouse that actually works from a distance of 3 feet?Customer Review: Good Combo
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this product for use with an old desktop that I have and it works very well. I love the programmable buttons on the keyboard. Also, the keyboard keys are a little loud, so this probably isn't for a quiet office environment. The mouse has a nice weight to it and works at long distances and on so many surfaces. The receiver is pretty stubborn when trying to tilt it, but it works just as well in any direction as long as it is within 90 degrees of the device(s). Setup is easy, about 2 minutes for me. It is a nice beginning wireless combo.
Update: I have recently bought the Microsoft Wireless Laser Desktop 4000 and I find it much more comfortable and convenient than this desktop. Overall, if you can get the Microsoft Wireless Laser Desktop 4000 for less than $40, you should buy that instead.
Customer Review: It really is spill resistant
Summary: 4 Stars
One of my cats had a nasty "accident" right on top of this keyboard. I removed the batteries and gave the keyboard a thorough washing with hot water and dishwasher liquid. After drying out for a day it worked (and smelled) like new.
I'm a touch typist and I really like the feel of this keyboard. It is fairly compact and fits easily in my keyboard tray.
I'm not thrilled about the nonstandard layout of the Home/End/PgUp/PgDn/Del key cluster. Also, the keyboard doesn't have a Scroll Lock key which makes it incompatible with most KVM switches.
The mouse is a plain two-button scroll wheel optical mouse which is fine for my purposes.
I use this combo in both Linux (Emacs) and Windows. I haven't bothered with installing the Logitech drivers in Windows.
Customer Review: It does what you expect it to do
Summary: 4 Stars
I plugged it in, it works. Other than a lack of tangles I wouldn't even know it was cordless.
Minor quibbles on key placement - the Home/End/Delete/PgUp/PgDown keys are in a different configuration than I'm used to, leading to some mis-hits. The "go back a page" and "close this application" keys are placed in a way that makes them liable to be hit when poking at the Ctrl key. Easy enough to disable them, though. (And why are those keys needed? Ctrl-LftArrow and Ctrl-F4 already do those jobs.)
As for the rest of the extra features (quick launching of programs, audio controls, etc.), they're nifty, I guess, but I'm not sure I'll ever be using them much.
Overall, quite pleased with my purchase. I wanted a wireless keyboard that works, and I got one.