Logitech Media Keyboard

by Logitech

Product Details

• Item Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000CRHNMO
• Item model number: 967560-0403
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 20, 2006

Product Description

The Logitech media keyboard offers a truly inspired design that makes accomplishing your tasks easier and more enjoyable. Convenient music, Internet, and navigational controls are cleanly blended into its streamlined style, and the keyboard is spill-resistant, too. Get the comfort, simplicity, and convenience you wantwhile going far beyond the ordinary.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Performer, June 3, 2007

By 

J. Hernandez (Cali) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Logitech Media Keyboard (Personal Computers)

Having tossed out my stock Dell keyboard for a cheapy I bought at a discount store i was soon frustrated by the lack of features and function and smaller then conventional typing area that one offered (with a frustratingly small backspace key). So I ordered one of these and its gotta be the best $20 keyboard anywhere.

The keys are well placed and clearly marked, typing on it feels intuitive, and it is fairly quiet. It has little rubber pads on the bottom that make it STICK to your desk as well as two little "feet" in front that pop up if you want to tilt the board toward you. And the bottom edge, although not a hand rest, is well shaped and provides enough space to rest your hands nonetheless. The keyboard is very comfortable to use and streamlined for form and function, unlike some other keyboards who's controls and buttons resemble a busy dashboard of an automobile.

I have used a plain vanilla keyboard for so long this one is a real joy. It opens my homepage, email client (it supports several clients, one being Hotmail), has master volume controls, mute, media controls for audio/video applications, a power off button, opens the calculator, etc....and best of all the software provided to allow you to program hot keys is top notch. You have the twelve F keys to program however you like to open whatever application, file, folder, webpage, etc you care to open. And a nifty one touch "close" button as well as a "go back" button at the left edge of the board. Everything is literally at your fingertips, and whatever program or file you open or function you are using is attractively displayed in big green text at the bottom of your monitor screen (this feature can be disabled). Also, if you need to use standard F keys it has a key to toggle back and forth between "standard" and "enhanced" keys. Which is handy if you play games, for obvious reasons.

The only cons with this keyboard are the keys are a bit small (just a tad, you'll quickly acclimate) and if you are a memory / system resources obsessed type the software to make it all happen takes 14 megabytes of RAM to run. Which is really very little by todays standards.

Not the most spectacular or most expensive keyboard, just one that does EVERYTHING right, I was pleasantly surprised by the quality and function of this item for $20. Sure there are other choices that do the same and more. But if you are looking for an easy to use, streamlined, uncluttered, fully functional, and INEXPENSIVE keyboard solution to handle the basics and a fair bit beyond, this $20 Logitech should go top of your list.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best price/quality for a keyboard w/music control buttons, February 26, 2007

By 

Landogarner - See all my reviews

This review is from: Logitech Media Keyboard (Personal Computers)

I only wanted a simple keyboard with buttons for controlling my mp3 player. I previously owned the same logitech keyboard, one step up from this one and while it is great keyboard it has a little too many extra buttons that often got in the way.

For my money simplistic elegance and minimalism is the way to go and this keyboard fits that bill perfectly.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars stuttering key issue, December 18, 2007

By 

faust (Troy, MI.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Logitech Media Keyboard (Personal Computers)

I purchased this keyboard recently through Amazon and I like the keyboard but I found that I had a stutttttttering key issue. Every so often I would get a keypress that went ccccccrazy. I found it happened both on my Vista and XP partitions. I have the most recent version of setpoint also. Logitech support had no advice and I did notice some others with the same issue on their support message board. The only solution I found was plugging it in with the adapter to my PS2 port. So it's only the USB that's acting weird. I don't mind using PS2 port but there are a few functions that you can only use on USB.