Review on Logitech MX Keys Wireless Keyboard Black, English by Mateusz Walkowski ᠌

Name: Logitech MX Keys Wireless Keyboard Black, English
Item: Logitech MX Keys Wireless Keyboard Black, English
Rating: 5

May 02, 2023

The perfect purchase for me, exactly what I was looking for!

Since I hate wires, I buy all devices exclusively without wires, with the ability to connect via bluetooth. The keyboard is no exception. The choice essentially boiled down between apple magic keybords and logitech mx keys. I leaned towards logitech due to the presence of backlighting and a price tag cheaper than an apple black keyboard. I was very pleased with the keyboard, the feeling of a quality thing, I hope it will last for many years.

P. S. I know that every second one hates a short left shift, but for Mac users, this should not be a surprise if you have a PC device. I've been using Macs since 2022, so I've gone through various iterations of keyboard shortcuts to control the Mac axis. So, since those times, the keyboard shortcut, command + button with a tilde, a comma and square brackets, located to the right of the left shift, has rolled in to me as much as possible. So this combination switches all windows in turn within one application, for example, you have many Excel files, Word or several windows in the browser open, for example, normal and incognito.

Due to my work, I often have to work simultaneously with a large number of Excel files, Word. And I use this combination all the time, it is for this reason that I have to take exclusively the rst of the apple device, there is no this button on the American layout.

After working on this keyboard under Windows, I realized that the keyboard is wildly buggy and I would not advise taking it for Windows. I don’t reduce the ball from 5 to 4, as I took it for poppy. But in fairness, I think Windows is to blame, which I have not reinstalled since 2022, but that's another story .

Pros

1) Full-size, there is a block of numbers on the right. 2) The presence of backlighting, unlike apple keyboards. 3) Engraving of keys for 2 systems Windu and poppy. I consider this a convenient feature, since I use 99% poppy and 1% laptop on Windows, in case I need to reflash the router or something like that. And I don’t remember much the location of the Windows keys. 4) Switching with a button between different computers, I have not yet tested it with a second laptop, but I think it will work well (judging by other reviews). 5) Weight, the keyboard is heavy, so it does not crawl on the table and creates a tactile feeling of a quality thing. 6) Pleasant sound of the keys, I would say the keyboard is also quiet, at least when compared with the Makovsky one, they are somewhat similar in feel. 7) Brightness and volume function keys that work without an additional fn key. The track switching and start / stop buttons work if the spotify application is installed, it is integrated into the Mac OS. 8) Short left shift and a button next to it, in the comments I will write why this is a plus for me. 9) Convenient first connection, I just turned it on, it immediately blinked that it was looking for a connection, after the connection it immediately worked. 10) It is possible to independently change the battery in case of its degradation. 11) Very beautiful.

Cons

1) Logitech options application, for poppy does not have 2022 language. No, not that it would be a big problem, but I know that on Windows it has 2022 support, it seems strange to me. 2) Notches on the keys, maybe these are my nit-picking, but I don’t understand why they are needed, maybe out of habit, but it seemed to me that this is not convenient, but not critical. 3) Backlight, its presence is a huge plus, but it is not fully implemented. For example, if you were typing something, and your hands were hovering over the keyboard, then the backlight does not go out immediately, but gives you more time to think. But sometimes it does not work as it should, and for example, it may not recognize hands and turn off the backlight, you want to type further, but the sensor does not work, it thinks that you have removed your hands far away, and does not light up until you touch the key. Well, probably the main disadvantage is that you can’t make the backlight always on in the keyboard settings. 4) If you sit in a reclining chair, then you can see the light and if the table lamp is not turned on, then in complete darkness it shines rather unpleasantly. 5) Personal quibble, but I would like a larger area of the keys, and a smaller distance between them, along with the notches on the keys, the fingers constantly fall on the edge of the key, tactile is not very pleasant. 6) Probably its price, I took it for 7750 from the accumulated points, in a local store. So the average price is about 9-10k. 04/27/21 there was a need to hook this keyboard to a computer on Windows 7. So something terrible happened on Windows, the backlight sometimes turned off and did not turn on at all even when typing, only turning the keyboard on and off helped. Symbols were not periodically pressed, or vice versa, they were clamped spontaneously on their own, as if cntrl was pressed or something like that, in general, hot keys in the browser and programs were buggy. By bluetooth did not start at all, only by whistle. There are a lot of negative comments from Windows users, so this is all true! On the poppy, none of the listed problems was at all.