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Logitech K480 Bluetooth Multi-Device Keyboard

$19.99
$49.99 60% off Reference Price
Condition: Refurbished
Color: Black
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Top positive review
6 people found this helpful
Well constructed keyboard that easily switches between devices
By Suzanne on Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2020
My iMac keyboard gave up the ghost about 6 months ago after many years of service. Soon after, my employer switched us to working from home, so I now had my iMac, my work laptop, and two monitors on my desk, and I decided to get a compatible keyboard with both my iMac and windows-based work laptop. That item (not the logitech) was horrible. As my employer is now telling the workforce that we'll be at home until the end of January 2021, I decided it was time to replicate my work desk setup and get a keyboard that didn't frustrate me. As I've been using a Logitech track pad with the iMac and love that, the Logitech products were given a thorough examination. While I wanted a full-sized keyboard with a number keypad, I was willing to skip that (I can drag out the crappy keyboard if I need to type in a lot of numbers). The many positive comments about this keyboard and ability to pair with 3 devices and easily switch between them was the feature that got me to choose it, and I'm glad it did. The keyboard itself is compact, but the keys are a standard size. The orientation of keys differs from my full size keyboards and the laptop's compact layout. However, it only took a couple of days to become comfortable with this design, and I've even been able to use the arrow keys without having to look down at the keyboard to locate them. YMMV, but it isn't a far reach, and the angle of these keys makes it easy to identify up, down, left and right. Even better, the keyboard I replaced was produced by a company that specializes in Mac accessories, yet, none of the Mac function keys worked as expected with it. The Logitech handles most of these with ease. While I can't toggle with F3 on the Mac, it does Command-Shift-Tab just fine, as well as screen grabs with Cmd-Shift-3 and Cmd-Shift-4. I haven't played enough with the rest of the Mac functions, but those are my go-to buttons in my line of work, so it is nice to see that I don't lose Mac functions on a dual compatible device. The bluetooth pairing was extremely easy, taking less than 2 minutes on both the Windows based laptop and the iMac, and now, it's a simple turn of the knob. I haven't decided which device to pair into that third slot, but it may be my phone to save me from fat fingering texts when it spends most of the time sitting on my desk. It takes less than 5 seconds to be recognized by the selected device - I just need to remember that I've switched devices. When I bought this keyboard, I hadn't realized that it was truly designed to be used with iPads and other tablet devices. The channel in the top of the keyboard holds an iPad securely, though it usually has my phone or a pen lately. If your intent is for use with a tablet, it will hold it at a slight angle out, maybe 10 degrees. Overall, I'm glad I didn't take the low price to mean that this wouldn't be a worthy contender for use with both Windows and Mac computers. It'd still be a great value at double the price, as it does the job well . This may not matter to you, but it replaced a keyboard that was rather flimsy and this is solid. There's a heavy battery inside, and it looks like it will withstand being dropped. The thickness of the body means that it doesn't need legs to prop it up, a design feature that pleases me. To be honest, I was prepared to spend $100 to get a keyboard that satisfied my need to use one keyboard for both of the computers on my desk.
Top critical review
12 people found this helpful
Clunky and Plastic-y, but Cheap and Usable
By shadowmist on Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2022
This is a cheap and plastic-y keyboard with very hollow feeling keystrokes and annoyingly difficult to press buttons. The enter key in particular has resisted being pressed down by me many times more than I'd care to admit, mostly due to how the keycap is angled so you almost have to press down from above to get it to reliably go. That said, for $30, it's decently full-featured for a keyboard. With the ability to easily switch between 3 bluetooth devices, it's quite handy for those of us with many devices. It's not what I'd use for any serious work or gaming, but for light tasks and just to have a keyboard it's more than good enough. I would've preferred if it had 2 bluetooth and an USB similar to how other Logitech devices like the Pebble mouse have it, but 3 bluetooth is good enough for the most part. Battery life is solid enough. It's a bluetooth keyboard, it's not exactly a power hog. It's designed to be able to hold tablets and phones... but don't expect it to hold anything overly large. I found out the hard way that my Tab 7+ was just a bit too large to fit into the groove. I didn't expect this since I don't consider it to be particularly large, but it was. An iPad Air fit in perfectly though, and if I put it in vertically I can fit other things in (though with the 7+ it was too tall and prone to tipping for my comfort). As mentioned above, the typing experience isn't particularly nice. I come from mechanical keyboards (browns are my preference, though I've tried many others) so it's not exactly a fair comparison, but these keys are cheap feeling enough that I have to mention them. They all have a weird concave going inwards to them that makes them difficult to press from more angled approaches. This means that for further away keys you have to reach for such as backspace you'll often encounter unexpected resistance, interrupting the flow of your typing. Moreover, the weight of each key is very much uneven with various keys being much more resistant to being pushed down than others. This lack of evenness doesn't inspire much confidence in the quality of the product in general, even if my confidence in it wasn't particularly high to begin with due to the low price. At the end of the day though, for $30, you can't demand too much. And for the price? This was decent enough. 3/5 for me.

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