Editorial Product Review:

Item Description:
The Logitech Cordless Desktop S 530 Laser for Mac is the perfect match for your Mac desktop, whether it's used at home or at the office. It's engineered for critical performance to meet discerning and professional demands. It includes a comfortable ultra-flat keyboard and a high-performance laser mouse. The ultra-flat profile and built-in palm rest bring an amazing level of comfort. Dedicated one-touch controls for iTunes and iPhoto give you instant access to your music and photos. Programmable keys launch Safari, Mail, Spotlight, or any other application with a single press. The stylish white and silver design perfectly matches the design of your Mac. The sculpted high-performance cordless laser mouse delivers exceptional comfort and enables pixel-precise photo editing. Longer battery life provides up to 6 months or more of standard use.



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Accessories available:

• Microsoft Natural Keyboard Elite
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• Logitech MX620 Cordless Laser Mouse
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• Logitech QuickCam Orbit MP Webcam ( 961422-0403 )

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Customer Rating: - Nice Keyboard & Mouse Combo
I've had the Logitech S530 combo for about a month and really enjoy the keyboard and the mouse is good too. The Keyboard feel is great, solid, but quiet keys and the mouse fits good too. I use a Logitech Wave keyboard at work on a XP machine and used the same keyboard/mouse before I got this one. I prefer the S530 mouse MUCH more then the one with the Wave, and the keyboard tactile feedback on the S530 is much more pleasant. I had no problems hooking this combo up to my 24" iMac. The one downer is the black USB dongle, should have been white to match the rest of the setup.

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Customer Rating: - Fantastic Keyboard for the Everyday User
I am a college student and I own a MacBook Pro. I needed two things to help manage my workspace when not in the classroom: a separate monitor for viewing documents side-by-side and a keyboard/mouse combo for working with my notebook closed.

I already own a bluetooth mouse, an Apple mighty mouse, and had no need for a second mouse at home so I had previously counted this keyboard combo out. Eventually I "settled" with this Logitech keyboard because my mighty mouse's scroll ball decided to die on me. To be honest, I loved that mouse but it seems that most mighty mice encounter this problem eventually. Regardless, I bought the mouse along with VMware Fusion and they both arrived two days later.

I also own JBL's aluminum colored speakers and the aforementioned color goes well with the accents on the keyboard and mouse and my MBP.

Functionality of this keyboard could not be more flawless. The keys are well spaced for my medium sized hands; Logitech has beautifully crafted a keyboard that incorporates the comforting depth of full sized keyboard clicks without overdoing it, allowing me to type forever and accurately as if it were a notebook keyboard. The extra Mac-specific buttons surrounding the main keys are not just bonuses. I found that its much easier to adjust volume levels, launch frequently used apps, and navigat web pages, documents, spread sheets, and photo albums with either hand whether it be from the keyboard or the mouse itself.

As to the mouse, I fell in love with it the very first time I used it to raise the volume of my music with a simple click of my index finger. I know that this is not a real evolution in the would of desktop mice but I was used to using a trackpad in conjunction with function keys to get the job done. To be honest, this keyboard/mouse combo has really helped me enjoy working at a desk. I don't like to be tied down to one spot but these two peripherals have really changed my entire perspective.

I recommend this keyboard/mouse set greatly, to anyone. My productivity has increased and I can manage all of my apps with the simplest of ease.

Of note, and the reason I gave this product a 4 out 5 regardless of my glowing review, is because Logitech's driver (the Logitech Control Center) albeit fantastic for meticulously adjusting each button's function is needed for most of the mac specific buttons around the keyboard, does not work with World of Warcraft. While World of Warcraft is running, using the scroll wheel will cause the cursor to jump to the upper left-hand corner of the screen. Plus, it is impossible to map key functions in game while the LCC is installed.

I know, I know, this seems like a completely ridiculous reason to dock the item an entire star. However,I initially enjoyed Logitech's software. In fact, I think a big part of the appeal or not of input devices can be attributed to their proprietary drivers. Many, many people play games; ten million people play WoW. I had to completely uninstall the Logitech Control Center which also helped manage my travel mouse (the VX Nano, another fantastic mouse) so I feel really jipped by Logitech for overlooking a weird glitch with their software.

Otherwise, I'm thrilled with their product. Buy it. Even if you play WoW, it's totally worth it. Get it, use it, make you're life easier and you might actually do you're homework. I know i've thought about it.

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Customer Rating: - Solid performer, shame about the drivers. . .
I've been using this mouse/keyboard combo for about 6 months now and don't have any real complaints with the hardware.

Keyboard:
The keyboard is easy to type on and has a nice wrist rest. It's a bit larger than the standard Mac keyboard, due to the aforementioned wrist rest plus media control buttons on the sides, but it's not much larger than that. It's definitely not for space restricted desktops, though, and you'd be better off getting the Apple wireless keyboard (which is also nice). The white/aluminum color matches my Mac mini quite well and looks like it belongs there. The keyboard is comfortable for typing with fairly good travel on the keys and a standard feel. Nothing special here, but not the same feel as the Apple keyboards (particularly the wireless Apple keyboard), more of a traditional keyboard setup without the "click" that some may prefer to have.

Mouse:
The mouse is very nice. As another reviewer mentioned, it's similar to the 600 series, though without any LED lights for e-mail, etc. The mouse has nice weight and is comfortable in my mid-large size hands. It's amply precise for my uses as well, though I don't think it's really set up for hard core gaming or ultra-precise graphics editing, though this is more a fault of OS X's mouse acceleration feature (which can be disabled) than Logitech. A nice touch on this mouse is some volume control buttons and a forward/back button for web browsing.

Wireless:
This mouse/keyboard combo uses a separate USB plug receiver to communicate. This provides solid communication without delay and is far superior to most of the other wireless setups I've used in my office that has a fair amount of electromagnetic interference in the area that caused other keyboards and mice to hiccup at times. The down side of this is that it will use up one of your USB ports (unless you have a hub). It does not use Bluetooth, which most Macs today have built in.

Battery Life:
I use the keyboard/mouse combo for about 6 hrs per day typing several dozens of pages of text and jumping around between pages and applications. As mentioned above, I've had this combo for 6 months, and I have the same batteries I originally put in them. The mouse uses 2x AA batteries and the keyboard uses 2x AAA.

Software:
This is the Achilles heel of this combo. The software is optional, and the keyboard and mouse will function perfectly well without installing the Logitech Control Center software, but you lose the functionality of the multimedia buttons. It appears that Logitech is still very much stuck in the Windows mentality of having burdensome third-party drivers come with their hardware to "enhance the user experience" that ends up just slowing the whole thing down. Granted, this set of drivers, as of summer 2008, was not as intrusive as some of their drivers for other hardware, it's not as invisible as I would like. Given that, I'd still recommend installing them vs. skipping them (as I would recommend for most other Logitech stuff I've tried on Macs), as the added capability through the custom buttons is handy.

Price:
This is one of the strongest features of this product. You can get a great wireless keyboard and mouse combo for the same price or less than the current wireless Apple keyboard alone. The keyboard is just as good as Apple's and the mouse is vastly superior than Apple's wireless Mighty Mouse, one of the worst mice I've ever used.

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Customer Rating: - good keyboard for the money
It is a nice set with the mouse and keyboard. I use it everyday I only wish the batteries lasted a little longer in them.