Comments on: Logitech Cordless Comfort Duo Black

By: Evgeny

Evgeny — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:34:04 +0000

I’ve navigated to your blog while surfing net for reviewa and comparisions of comfy keyboards. Martin, thanks for freat field test report of both units in questions. Cool. )

I really need some more info from ya, if it’s possible. )

The laggy response of the Logitech’s multimedia keys is caused by software, right? what if i get me some pugins, and pref-panels, and hacks ;) and throw away Logitech keyboard manager?

By: Michele

Michele — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 18:59:37 +0000

IONE your story about Italian keyboard was so useful. I was thinking about buying a Mac in the US but I had the problem that the keyboard with the Italian layout in the school did nt seem to make sense at all!!!
Now I understand everything!
thank you !

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By: jon

jon — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:06:11 +0000

I bought 2 of these back to back and both had broken space bars? The were stuck in the down position.

By: Denis

Denis — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:40:20 +0000

I just bought the same keyboard and could not believe that the wrong ‘@’ and ‘”‘ (and other) keys were mapped incorrectly. I spent a while looking around the logitech site and downloaded the latest control applet without success. I thought I’d write a little utility to fix them (Quickeys is way too expensive for what it does) and started reading the Apple docs on keyboard layouts. What I discovered then was that Logitech had installed a layout file for the keyboard but not activated it!!! Once I selected it, everything works perfectly. Here’s what you do:

Open System Preferences, International
Click the third tab (Input Menu)
Scroll down until you see a bunch of Logitech layoutsand select the one corresponding to your keyboard (I chose Logitech U.K. Intl).
Unselect your previous layout (so that only one is selected).

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 16:22:11 +0000

I use a Logitech Cordless Elite Duo and love it. While Apple’s standard keyboard has a better “feel” to it, you simply can’t beat Logitech for overall performance and customization. Controlling iTunes, launching apps, 2 scroll wheels, etc… nobody else does it better, IMO.

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By: shana

shana — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 00:13:11 +0000

i’m a huge fan of this keyboard as well — except for the Logitech button; i finally took the key off the keyboard, and i find myself entirely happy with the solution. silly, but hey.

By: l0ne

l0ne — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 07:39:30 +0000

At least your layout is similar between Mac and PC…
(PS: what follows is useless trivia, so you can skip it if you wish :D)

+++ a bit of useless trivia +++
When Apple started selling Macs in Italy, the PC revolution still was an ocean away from here. So, when the marketing department of Apple Italy started considering the keyboard to sell with the Mac, they standardized on the same keyboard that was a standard on typewriters at the time — the QZERTY keyboard (igh).
Then came the PC. Since PC manufacturers had no particular attention on what they were selling, they started selling imported US QWERTY keyboards. But Italian has a lot of accents the QWERTY keyboard doesn’t allow you to type, so they made an “Italian” QWERTY keyboard by modifying the leftmost part of the keyboard (near Enter) and changing the symbols above the numbers to remove those that aren’t used as much in Italian (placing ” instead of @ on top of the 2 key, for instance).
Net effect, Apple found itself in the ugly position of having a keyboard that a generation of PC-trained people cannot use easily (because the layout, while similar, is a bit “off” and allows for tons of errors before one learns to adapt).
So, when the slot loading iMac came out here, it had a USB Mac keyboards that had the QWERTY layout and whose symbols were in the same places than the PC keyboard.
And this is why Mac OS X has two Italian keyboard layouts: Italian, for the old ADB QZERTY keyboard, and Italian Pro, for the new USB QWERTY keyboard. And that’s it.
+++ /a bit of useless trivia +++

By: David Appleyard

David Appleyard — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:11:56 +0000

Great review. I’m a die hard Logitech fan myself :)