Logitech Cordless Comfort Duo Black

by Logitech

Product Details

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• Product Dimensions: 9 x 3.4 x 20 inches ; 4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006L4FY
• Item model number: 967230-0403
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 8, 2002

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Logitech Cordless Comfort Duo combines the exceptional comfort of a split-key keyboard layout with the high-performance cordless MouseMan optical mouse. This combination fits where you want it without compromising performance, precision, or power. The keyboard's design lets your hands and wrists rest in a natural position while offering one-touch access to your files, applications, e-mail, and the Web.

The mouse moves easily on almost any surface, with no ball or moving parts to clean or fuss with. It also offers twice the speed and twice the accuracy of standard optical mice. Scrolling is easier with its convenient scroll wheel, and included software lets you customize four mouse buttons and many keyboard features. The keyboard lets you control audio and video and access your favorite Web sites, directories, and applications right from its one-touch hot keys.

System requirements: an IBM-compatible or Macintosh system running Windows 98, 2000, Me, NT 4.0, or XP, or Mac OS X; an available USB or PS/2 keyboard port and PS/2 mouse port; and a CD-ROM drive. Internet and e-mail function require an Internet account and Netscape Navigator 4.0 or later, Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later, or America Online 4.0 or later. A sound card and speakers are optimal for taking advantage of multimedia control.

Product Description

Wireless convenience with ergonomic comfort The Logitech Cordless Comfort Duo combines the exceptional comfort of a split-key keyboard layout with the high-performance Cordless MouseMan Optical. This combination fits where you want it without compromising performance, precision, or power. The keyboard's design allows your hands and wrists to rest in a natural position while offering one-touch access to your files, applications, email, and the Web. The mouse moves easily on almost any surface with no ball or moving parts to maintain. Logitech Cordless Comfort Duo Comfortable split-key keyboard Cordless freedom through digital radio technology Customizable, keyboard-based access to any application, including email and multimedia Comfortable, contoured mouse shape that fits snugly in right hand Powerful optical sensor for twice the speed and twice the accuracy of standard optical mice Includes Cordless keyboard, Cordless mouse, Compact RF receiver, USB to PS/2 adapter, 4 AA batteries, software, and manual. Requires: Win 98/NT 4.0/2000/Me/XP or Mac OS X, available USB or PS/2 keyboard port and PS/2 mouse port, CD-ROM drive for software installation Manufacturer Warranty: 1 year

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for Mac OS X; heavenly device!, January 2, 2004

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J. Trimpey "Jack Trimpey" (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Logitech Cordless Comfort Duo Black (Personal Computers)

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I was wary of this package after reading the bad reviews by recent customers here, especially the comments about the awkward key layout. I went ahead because I use a keyboard 8 hours a day or more, practically every day of my life, and I want comfort, wirelessness, and the kind of functionality Mac users usually demand.

The page-up/down keys are unusually placed, but anyone who spends time with the board will get muscular memory going in a short time. I hit those keys without looking any time I choose. It took a day to master without misses.

This keyboard is better than any other I have ever used - full sized, compact, corded or cordless, adb or USB, - I've used them all. This one has the wrap-around key layout that keeps my wrists straight, and a wrist rest that absolutely prevents forearm fatigue I usually get after an hour or so of keyboarding. The key action is wonderful, providing the resilient resistance that makes touch-typing easy and error-less.

The mouse was a wash; it's in the trash, but I didn't buy a mouse; I bought a keyboard. I still use my Kensington wireless, which has superior tracking and accelleration. It's been over a month on the original batteries that came with with the keyboard, two AA's, which makes it dirt cheap to keep in power. Battery consumption is low. The board is a little narrower than some other ergonomic boards, which means it will fit on my lap regardless of which chair I use, wide or narrow.

All in all, this is one of the better purchases I've ever made, and I recommend this keyboard to anyone with high expectations for computer hardware. This is a professional level board, possibly the best there is.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars So good - why do they have to mess up something?, March 20, 2003

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Stephen Sawyer (Livonia, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Logitech Cordless Comfort Duo Black (Personal Computers)

I bought the Comfort Duo to replace a "Natural" keyboard made by another well-known manufacturer. In recent years though, that model has become really cheap and very uncomfortable and awkward to use for anything but the most casual typing, with wobbly keys that bind and cause tremendous frustration.

The Comfort Duo on the other hand is *outstanding* with one small exception. The keyboard feel is very nice, with good but not obtrusive tactile feedback, good key placement, a nice wrist-rest and it looks nice as well. The mouse is superb, although the buttons seem a little closer together than I'm used to with other mice (I keep missing the right mouse button hitting the mouse housing instead) but I'm sure I'll get used to it.

The only disappointment (and this is a big one, I'm afraid - the reason I didn't give this set five stars) is the placement of the Insert/Home/PgUp/Delete/End/PgDn keys. Instead of placing them in the "standard" layout of two rows of three keys each, ordered as I typed them above (heck, even my laptop uses that layout!), Logitech has opted for a screwy three-row layout that places the "Delete" key right where your hand expects the "Home" key.

It's bad enough that touch-typists like me had to adjust to placement of the "6" key on the wrong hand when they started making these "ergo" keyboards, but it's a shame that Logitech had to go and spoil an otherwise perfect keyboard for no reason that I can tell, other than allowing them to shorten the keyboard by a half-inch....

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars nice but not very functional, May 15, 2003

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randyhnl "randyhnl" (Honolulu, HI USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Logitech Cordless Comfort Duo Black (Personal Computers)

I've been using the original MS Natural keyboard for years and I love it. But I wanted to go wireless so I bought this set. Unfortunately, it falls far short of being functional. Overall, the keyboard and mouse have a nice solid feel to them. The keyboard especially has a nice feel to the keys. Reception has not been a problem at all.

Here are the problems:

Keyboard:
1. The strangely laid out home/end/pg up/pg down/insert/delete keys that everyone has mentioned.
2. In order to conserve space, the different key pads are placed uncomfortably close together. The letter keys, the home/end/cursor keys and the numeric keypad are so close together that they are almost one continuous keypad. This makes it difficult, tactily, to move from one set of keys to another. This sort of defeats my purpose, which was to buy a full-sized keyboard for my laptop. For instance, when I use the page up/down keys, I have to be careful not to press on the numeric keys. These are not things I need to be thinking about when I am touch-typing.
3. Again, a space-saver issue. They have brought the function keys right down on top of the letter keypad and the scroll-lock/print scr/pause keys down right on top of the numeric keypad. I use the numeric keypad a lot and because they have basically added a 6th row of keys at the top, my hand is always positioned on the wrong keys and I'm typing all the wrong characters. Same with the function keys, which I also use a lot. Not only are they right on top of the number keys of the keyboard, they have these sort of random spaces between them, which again, makes them very difficult to use when touch-typing. With this keyboard, I've been forced to resort to hunt-and-peck typing a lot.
4. One last negative. Yet again, a space saver issue. The right shift key has been reduced to nearly a "normal" letter-key size in order to squish the cursor keys right up against the letter keyboard. This makes the "enter" key stick way out past the shift key. And again, tactily, I constantly end up pressing Enter instead of Shift because the shift is a good 3/4 inches in from the end of the Enter key.

Mouse:
1. Huge mouse. Not good for small hands, which I have. It is also a right-handed only mouse. So if you're a lefty, you're out of luck. I'm not a lefty but I mostly use my left hand for the mouse and I switch to my right, when my hand get's tired. It is nice to have that versatility.

I suppose once you get used to these inconsistencies, it would be an adequate keyboard. But I wonder why I should have to relearn to type to suit Logitech's quirks? P>The one thing that the old MS Natural keyboard and that none of these new split keyboards have is the reversed "stand" (can't think of a better word) where it tilts the keyboard AWAY from you rather than toward you like they all do now. When the keyboard is tilted away, it is much much much more comfortable. I have seen other people mention this as well. I wonder why they did away with that excellent feature. Right now I've propped up the Logitech with a piece of wood under the wrist pad. Makes a world of difference.