4 out of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent Keyboard ... Heavy Ho Mouse!!!Friday, April 29, 2005
I received my LX300 Wireless Desktop yesterday. The moment I opened the covers, I realized how light the whole product felt. I was happy. The keyboard is excellent. It's light, and wears a nice professional looking black color. There are so many useful pre-programmed buttons, which launches commonly used programs like Outlook, Word, Media Player, browser. To top it, there are 4 extra buttons which you can program to open your own choice of applications. Since I am using notepad for practically, all my text related activities, the first button went to Notepad.exe without a thought!! Oh man, how much I love this keyboard!! And all these niceties without the clutter of wires dangling around from the back of my laptop. I have tested the keyboard as far as 15 feet away and it WORKS!! It's only limited by my vision that I cannot understand a single line of text from 15 feet away .... (well, can't blame the keyboard by stretch of imagination).
Now the mouse: In short, an obese spoilsport.
Nowhere near it's talented lean looking brother (keyboard). The moment you touch the mouse, you feel like moving a heavy pebble beside a riverside!!! Man, if this thing ever falls on my head, I'd surely develop cracks on my cranium!! Blame the two heavy AA batteries for this. It ought to be AAAs.
The mouse is also, not very accurate. All of a sudden and out of the blue, the pointer wanders away on its own sweet trail. There is a slight noticeable lag too. You cannot rely on this mouse to do any accurate stuff like removing red eye in Adobe Photoshop. Today morning, I was surprised when I was moving the mouse southwards on the pad, and the pointer was actually moving westwards on the screen!!
Maybe I will stick to my old wired USB mouse by Microsoft for now.
In brief, a good purchase, if you can live with the fat mouse.
The keyboard is a gem.
From 5 stars down to 3 stars, thanks to the mouse.
16 out of 22 people found the following review helpful:
Cordless DeskThursday, January 20, 2005
I've been looking for ways to gain more real-estate on my desk, so I picked up this wireless keyboard and mouse. Now my computer is about 4 feet out of the way, there are no keyboard and mouse wires in the way.
I had no difficulty installing the hardware and software and within a few minutes, I was up and running.
I have not noticed a performance hit.
Features:
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1) Striking new keyboard design delivers ergonomic comfort -- without changing the way you work.
2) Precision refinements to key shape, feel, identification, and layout make keystrokes effortless and sure.
3) Use your left hand for moving forward and back in your browser
4) Encrypted wireless technology avoids interference for completely reliable performance with no cord clutter.
5) Smooth, precise tracking on a wide range of surfaces and no mouse ball means you'll never have to stop to clean it.
6) Buttons to control audio/video playback (e.g., mute with a single button press), access email, launch Microsoft Office applications, access home page, access favorite shopping site (e.g., Amazon), and more -- or reprogram the buttons to do whatever you want through the iTouch tool.
7) Setup to have Logitech Desktop Messenger automatically check for software upgrades
System Requirements:
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IBM-compatible PC
Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000, or Windows XP
1 USB port or 2 PS/2 ports
CD-ROM drive