If I were going to use this as a primary PC keyboard, I'd rate it lower... I much prefer a "full keyboard" when working (as I am now). But that's not what I'm using it for, and I don't really think that's what the "target usage" ever was.
This keyboard is PERFECTLY suited for the living room, and the "Home Theater PC" application role. It's small, stylish, and has more than enough range to work from a TV tray or coffee table across the room from my HTPC (which is hooked up to my big-screen flat-panel through my receiver).
Most of the time, when using the HTPC, I don't even use a keyboard (or mouse). I just use the remote control, almost entirely from within "Media Center." However, when ripping music, or configuring software, or updating Windows, or on those rare situations when I want to do "normal computing" in the living room, this does it all.
The "touch disk" is FAR superior to the conventional touchpad, as far as I'm concerned, if for no other reason than that it's NOT WHERE I'LL ACCIDENTALLY BUMP IT (which is why, on my laptop, I've permanently disabled the touchpad and instead us a handheld trackball). The charge capacity is terrific (I've let it go for several weeks without a charge and never seen even a hint of signal loss).
The only issue I've ever had was with a neighbor who, apparently, bought one of these for herself and kept "channel hopping" to the same channel I was on. A brief "teaching moment" with her and I was able to get her to set it to a particular "channel" and then ensure that mine was on a different one. If you have difficulties... check into that, first. If there are multiple devices in the same place, using similar technologies, trying to use the same channel... you'll frequently lose your connection and have to turn the device on and off to reconnect. Frustration, but easily fixed by a little consideration between neighbors!
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I find that I must edit my review, as I've just discovered a tremendous flaw in this device, as well as the solution to that defect.
The Logitech DiNovo Edge is a fantastic piece of design work, and the design team who developed it should be proud of their efforts. But someone, at some point, forced them to compromise their design (no doubt supporting this argument with a "business case" involving selling replacement units after a couple of years!)
The DiNovo Edge has pretty straightforward construction. If it were not for the presence of a heavy, bright-orange adhesive-backed panel on the rear of the unit, the assembly and disassembly of the unit would be extremely simple. Further, reviewing the existing molded parts, you can tell that the engineers who created this design fully intended for there to be a battery access panel.
The problem with this device is that it uses a Lithium-Ion film-based battery module. These units provide great power, initially, but INEVITABLY will fail.
A failed battery can easily be detected by the following symptoms.
1) Reduced charge duration
2) Swelling of the battery pack (its center is at the top of the palm-rest, directly underneath the left-side "alt" and "windows" keys). You can easily detect this swollen region. Battery packs swell when the chemistry inside starts to decompose. The main GAS product is oxygen... which is why lithium-ion battery failures often result in very hot fires which can't be extinguished (and are often referred to, in accurately, as "battery explosions"... a more accurate term is "extreme thermal events")
3) The on-board software identifying the failure and indicating it through an "undocumented" flashing LED pattern... three red flashes, one green flash, then repeat.. on the charge indicator of the keyboard.
If you have seen ANY of these, you'll likely see the others in short order. This is a clear indicator that the internal battery has failed. Continued use is not practical, and in fact the battery has become a potential fire hazard as well.
The trick is to remove that ugly orange vinyl backing sheet (the adhesive will soften if heated... I recommend putting the keyboard outside in the sun on a hot, sunny day, and the adhesive will become quite easy to manage.
Once this is done, you can see where the battery is (there's a "window" in the plastic backplane.
You can also see eighteen of the nineteen screws which hold the two halves together. (The nineteenth is under one of the two labels near the charger terminals). Remove the screws, carefully pop the two halves apart, and you can see the battery.
The battery is not soldered in, so it can just be popped right out and replaced. There are numerous sources of battery replacements... this is not anything "custom" so find one of the same size and rating and it will work just fine. Several are available right here on Amazon, including one which comes with extensive instructions and a tool.
Put the new battery in, snap the two housing halves back together, reinstall the screws... and you've got your keyboard back, fully functional (be sure to fully charge it, of course). If you really like that God-ugly orange backing, re-heat it (again, I recommend the "bright sunny day outdoors" approach) and re-stick it. Myself, I always found the orange mat to be incredibly ugly (my one major stylistic complaint about the device) so leaving it off seems a better choice as far as I'm concerned!
Realize, if you do this, you'll have voided your warranty, so be sure that it's out of warranty (if it's still in-warranty, Logitech will repair or replace it for you instead). I have two, one of which is still in-warranty and one of which is out of warranty.
I really do love this keyboard, and it's clear that the engineering team who developed it did a great job. It's also clear that some idiot manager smacked them down, and likely hard, for making the device so that the battery would be able to be replaced, and insisted on a redesign to make the battery as hard to access as possible (short of redesigning the entire unit from scratch. I'm sure that this "manager" got a big bonus as a result of "increasing revenue by forcing replacement instead of repair." Trust me, I've seen this in real life...
But ALL LITHIUM ION BATTERY PACKS BEHAVE IN THIS WAY. ALL FAIL, AND WHEN THEY FAIL THEY BECOME FIRE HAZARDS. It's inevitable. It is UNSAFE to have non-removable devices with this sort of battery in it. In fact, it's also unsafe to simply throw away these batteries, as they can result in "dumpster fires" or "garbage truck fires" or even "landfill fires"... and they often do.
Lithium ion battery technology is NOT YET READY FOR TREATMENT AS A PERMANENT SOLUTION. They're the best, by far, for energy density, but their life is not good, they become hazardous at end-of-life, and they need very special treatment for disposal (something we don't have any infrastructure to support).
This will inevitably change, as new chemistry work is done. But for now... I think I'm going to refuse to buy any future devices with non-removable Li-Ion battery systems. If the battery can't be easily removed/replaced... I will not buy the product, no matter how good it is.
And neither should any of you.
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