Logitech Cordless Desktop S530 Laser for Mac
Ahh yes mmmmmm smell that? Yes thats the smell of brand new hardware. As a nice little birthday gift I got the Logitech Cordless Desktop S530 Laser for Mac. I must say, VEEERY nice.
Now, for the last 5-6 years and the last 4 keyboards I had were ALL Microsoft keyboards. Not just any Microsoft, but I have fallen in love with the “Natural” Keyboard series they have going. With the latest revision in their natural series they did a small redesign and renamed it to the “Ergonomic” series. The last keyboard I had was the Microsoft Comfort Wireless Desktop which overall, was very nice. But it was not as flat as I wanted and for sure felt there was another solution in which I could type faster and with less energy, you know, important things when you work on computers allll dayyy loonng.
As my main computer is my 12” powerbook, lately I’ve been typing alot on it instead of having it hooked up desktop style. Let me tell you, there is NOTHING faster than typing on a powerbook. I am completely in love with the built in keyboards on them. So I needed to replicate this in my desktop configuration. Lucky for me Logitech just released this beauty, I saw it on http://www.uncrate.com/ and had to have it.
Impressions
First impressions are that it is very slick and THIN. It compliments the mac style very nicely and looks like it came from Apple themselves. The feel of the keys are very “spring/scissor” like, close to the powerbook itself but not quite as flat. The thing really is made for mac, you can configure the thing in a million ways and it has just as many buttons on the sides.
A button dedicated for scrolling, volume, muting, media keys, spotlight, CD eject button, back buttom, homepage button, email button and on/off power button to shut off the computer. A thats just on the keyboard.
The Logitech laser mouse is very nice as well. Very smooth and accurate in its tracking. It felt kinda light when I took it out of the box but once I put in the included batteries it felt quite solid. The mouse has dedicate forward/back thumb buttons, dedicated volume up/down and mute buttons along with verticle / horizonal scrolling and scroll wheel click. Oh yeah, and both the keyboard and keyboard have battery indicators and are supposed to be very low power and last up to 6 months on regular batteries.
Both are as wireless as can be and have a wireless reciever that works very well and only takes up one USB port. First thing I did was configure this thing to integrate into my workflow. Having all these buttons on the actual keyboard is great. On the mouse I have one of the thumb buttons to espose show all windows, the other thumb button set to minimize window. I reconfigured the volume up and down button to switch back/forward between my desktop manager 8 desktops I always have going on. Finally I set the mute button as the back button in my browser.
I really don’t see though why they have the exact same buttons on the mouse AND the keyboard (volume up/down and mute), seems kinda redundant to me, but perhaps they were just trying to fill space on the keyboard?
So overall I’m quite impressed and happy with this, a great gift indeed (Thanks babe!). I’ll have to see how much having a “non-ergonomic” keyboard affects my wrists and such. But the typing speed is worth it, I definitely recommend it.
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Posted on June 20, 2006
Filed Under Apple, Daily Thoughts, Hardware, Productivity, Tech
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