Logitech’s K750 is a solar powered wireless keyboard that uses a USB dongle to connect to your computer, probably more suited to people that want to connect their laptop to a separate screen while working in their office, since a wired keyboard has never been that much of an inconvenience for a desktop computer.
The Logitech K750 is not something I would have rushed out and bought as 90% of my time I spend on a laptop. I was keen to give the keyboard a try when we received our review unit, I decided to try connecting it to my laptop but there was a problem. The problem was that it had no electricity in it and it craved sunlight to charge the internal battery. Unfortunately the weather was the worst it had been in some time, the sun was noticeably absent. I left it connected for an entire day while I was on my daily travels on the roads of Gauteng. Back at the office, I was fired up to see how this keyboard worked. Now to say that I was disappointed was an under statement, it still didn’t work. The supplied documentation provided no solution. It was only after Surfing the web I found this is the norm as the keyboard goes into sleep mode when not been used and doesn’t charge. Problem solved, I left it in the sun for a bit and tapping the keys every couple of minutes, about twenty minutes later it was ready to use.
Having finally got the keyboard charged, I used it for the whole day in the office without any direct sunlight and it kept enough charge to carry on working. The Logitech K750 is actually a very pleasant keyboard to use. The keys are soft to the touch without requiring bashing the keys when typing. As an experiment I left the laptop in the lounge and went to the other side of the house, three rooms away and typed a passage to see how far the wireless signal would travel and what do you know it worked perfectly. What I really liked to do was to connect my laptop to the TV via the HDMI link that way, I could sit comfortably on the sofa with the keyboard on my lap and work with the TV as my screen, a definite must for anyone wanting to work in the comfort of their own lounge.
Apparently Logitech will be releasing a Mac compatible version in the near future, which will be a real bonus for Mac mini users. A lot of Mac minis are used as Media Centre computers connected to a TV. As I said in the beginning I would not have run out and bought this keyboard, but as with so many things we only see the advantages once we use them
Mark Walshaw
