$75.95

Description

The Logitech® diNovo™ Media Desktop™ Laser is today's most advanced desktop for the digital world, with a sleek design that personalizes your workspace and transforms your whole computing experience.

Bluetooth® connectivity turns your PC into a wireless hub, making it easy to share data with other devices enabled with Bluetooth® technology, such as your mobile phone. The matching MediaPad™ gives you remote control over your entire media library, allowing you to enjoy music and images on your PC using the included Logitech Media Life™ software or Windows® XP Media Center Edition.

Features

• Personalize your desk space with award-winning visual styling.
• Increase comfort and reduce stress on your wrists. Ultra-flat keyboard delivers smooth, super-quiet performance.
• Place your mouse closer to your keyboard for additional comfort and convenience. MediaPad™ remote commander can rest anywhere.
• Enjoy an ideal hand-fit with the MX™ Laser mouse's sculpted design. Storing your mouse in the rapid-charging base keeps it fresh and ready to go.
• Experience a performance revolution with the rechargeable MX Laser mouse. With 20x the tracking power of standard optical, the MX Laser mouse delivers record-setting performance on virtually any surface. The combination of 800-dpi resolution and 5.8-Megapixel image processing delivers phenomenal precision and speed.
• Turn your PC into a Bluetooth hub. Connecting the Bluetooth Mini-Receiver to your PC lets you do voice over IP with a headset, transfer pictures from a mobile phone, listen to music through Bluetooth headphones and much more.
• Bring together your digital pictures, video clips and music playlists in a single interface. MediaPad Long Range Bluetooth remote commander serves as a numeric pad, a calculator or a PC remote control. It can be used to control media on your PC from anywhere in the room. Enjoy it with the included Logitech Media Life software.
• PC
• USB
• Cordless
• Enhanced Function Keys
• Multimedia Control
• Optical
• MX™ Optical Engine
• Rechargeable mouse
• Zero Degree Tilt™
• Scroll wheel
• Application Switch
• Internet Forward/Back
• Bluetooth® cordless
• Detached MediaPad™
• Bluetooth® wireless hub
• Cruise Control™ buttons
• Audio Control
• Tilt Wheel Plus Zoom™
• Right-Handed Comfort Grip
• MediaLife™ Software
• Laser Technology
• PC with Pentium® processor or compatible
• Windows XP (Home, Pro, Tablet or Media Center Edition)

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1 out of 10
Abysmal "Looks great but you will eventually grow to hate it"
I have been using this keyboard daily for several months and have finally given up. The keyboard... (read more)
by 314156 (see profile), July 11, 2005
7 out of 7 users found this opinion helpful
1 comment posted to this opinion 5 out of 10
Average "looks like a high end sports car drives like a junker"
I was using SetPoint 2.22 but had to uninstall. The software is buggy and often times fails in... (read more)
by tony yayo (see profile), April 15, 2005
5 out of 5 users found this opinion helpful
4 out of 10
Mediocre "Not for Gamers!"
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January 12, 2005
3 out of 3 users found this opinion helpful
3 out of 10
Poor "Depends on what you're looking for"
If you're looking for a fully functional keyboard, beware. If you're looking for a keyboard that... (read more)
by YesBut (see profile), February 11, 2007
1 out of 1 users found this opinion helpful
10 out of 10
Perfect "MEDIA JUNKIES JUST BUY THIS THING"
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January 3, 2005
1 out of 1 users found this opinion helpful
1 out of 10
Abysmal "WORST KEYBOARD EVER"
This is clearly one of the worst consumer products I've had the misfortune of wasting money on. ... (read more)
by rolandsf (see profile), September 25, 2005
1 out of 2 users found this opinion helpful
9 out of 10
Spectacular "At first I liked it for it's looks. But now I LOVE it for it's functionality"
I've been using this setup for about three months, only it's the 2007 set (only difference is a... (read more)
by pmaidan (see profile), July 10, 2007 9 out of 10
Spectacular "Great for laptop users"
This is a great product. If you're someone who spends a lot of time in front of a laptop, it's... (read more)
by sunkissd (see profile), July 1, 2007

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews


21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
Shows great promise, October 21, 2005
By John Britton Jr. "mrbritton" (Longmont, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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My install of this system went fairly smoothly, but it is an amazingly lengthy process, with many stages involving updates and bluetooth reconnects and such. Still, it all worked out and it never left me wondering if I was doing the right thing or not, unlike many hardware/software installations.
The keyboard, mouse and pad have all worked pretty well for me, and the media pad shows great promise as a home theater controller, but I have a couple of quibbles:
1) the mouse charging station is a piece of junk relative to the rest of the system - it's tippy, you have to fiddle to feel that the mouse is making contact, and the power cable easily falls out
2) the keyboard, on waking up, often repeats (many times) one of the characters you type in
3) I _suspect_ the software of periodically bogging my PC down, though I don't know that for sure yet
4) I can assign the keyboard media button to bring up iTunes (and other applications), but the media pad media buttong is not given the same choices for some reason.
Overall I'm very impressed with this, but I AM COUNTING ON LOGITECH to improve the software such that it sees its full potential.

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16 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
Keyboard and mouse are good. Not the media controller, April 21, 2006
By Ganesh Kumar Eswaran "Ganesh Kumar" (Lansdale, PA, USA) - See all my reviews
Let me start with the positives:

1. Keyboard looks and feels great. Its very slim and has an aesthetic look. But I am wondering if the keyboard is safe. Reason, I could get it working up to 25 feet from the computer. I live in an apartment and there are many houses nearby. I am wondering if its safe to use this keyboard as my neighbour may receive the signals too. That said, I am happy that the keyboard is working up to that range without any interference.

2. Mouse is excellent. It has all the features of modern mouse, like tilt wheel for example. The tracking is very sharp and works even on rough and uneven surfaces.

3. Battery life is too good. I have used my mouse for 5 days and it did not show any signs of low power. It still shows full charge.

Now the negatives:

1. Its definitely not worth the money you pay for it. You can get wireless keyboard and mouse for much less without the bluetooth technology. The infrared ones work only for a small range but its actually good because your neighbours won't catch your keyboard signals due to the short range.

2. As someone already pointed out in another review, the mouse does not "fit" properly into its cradle. You have to baby-sit it to stop it from crying for power. That's a very bad design from a reputed company such as Logitech.

3. The media controller controls your patience and not the system. It gives so many problems that I lost patience to debug it. I am using only the keyboard and mouse and really feel let down. The media controller works OK with ITunes but when it comes to WinAmp, Windows Media Player, Cyberlink PowerDVD and Nero Showtime, it really is of no use. Only a few controls work and the others don't. The IM alert feature was very interesting to read on the manual. But when I tried it, it was far less interesting. It gives me the alerts on its miniscule screen. But does not alert with sound. So does it expect me to constantly glare at its small screen? No way. So finally the media controller is nothing more than a meagre calculator for me.

Summary: I would not recommend this product. Please pay lesser money and buy a good infrared keyboard/mouse if you wish to go wireless.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Such high hopes, such meager rewards, March 5, 2006
By Garth Snyder (Rochester, New York United States) - See all my reviews
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I have been coveting this sleek keyboard set ever since the first diNovo came out a couple of years ago. I have also been a user of the USB version of the MX1000 mouse since they came out last year, and I have nothing but praise for that product. The convergence of these product lines seemed like a match made in heaven.

But it isn't. For the most part, the problem is Bluetooth. As implemented here, it's a fussy, unreliable, complicated fiasco. Devices (usually the keyboards) randomly stop talking to each other and won't reconnect without a reboot. Once the system was so broken that Logitech's technical support could only suggest that I completely remove the Bluetooth protocol stack and all the additional software and start again from scratch. This did solve the problem, but it was a two-hour ordeal of reconfiguration. I'm sure glad I kept my old mouse and keyboard around!

I have also been using a (Logitech) cell phone style Bluetooth headset in conjunction with this adapter. It works, but just barely. Same problems as the diNovo devices: inconsistent behavior, frequent disconnects for no apparent reason, frequent power cycling and reboots required to set things right.

I notice also with the headset that the Bluetooth range is quite limited. On good days I can go to the adjacent room, but I'm certainly not getting 30 feet of range. And this is true even for listening, which I would imagine is more dependent on the USB adapter than the headset.

Mouse problems are what make this set truly unusable for me. The response is usually OK, but it occasionally becomes noticeably sluggish. Even worse, there seems to be some sort of predictive motion estimation built into the driver software that attempts to cover for gaps in the Bluetooth datastream. But it doesn't work very well -- for the most part, it just feels like the mouse is moving through molasses. Sometimes, the mouse pointer wanders around on its own for up to five seconds without the mouse being touched. (I've been very happy with the responsiveness of the USB version of this mouse.)

The beautiful keyboard is, sadly, undistinguished in actual use. It's sturdy and feels high-quality, but I find that I prefer the feel of my old el cheapo wired IBM keyboard. This may just be personal preference, but this svelte flat keyboard feels, well, too flat. There are legs on the back of the keyboard you can extend, and that helps, but unfortunately the MediaPad lacks them.

Lastly, the MediaPad. Reviewers loved it; not me. In fact, after trying it out for a while I'm totally unclear on the concept. Why would I want my numeric keypad moved off to the side where it's harder to get to and every bump makes it slip and slide around on its own? Why would I want extra copies of the media buttons on the main keyboard that can't be configured on their own? The time and date display is useful, but the driver software prefers to show you what's playing in your media player, and there doesn't seem to be any way to turn this off or switch back to the default display.

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i have this keyboard and mouse set right now.....

honestly its worth it... the keyboard is sleek and the buttons are thin almost like the keys on a laptop... and the mouse is very ergonomic and comfortable.....