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There’s a built-in foam rest for the palms of your hand as well. I found the four-degrees choice the most comfortable. You have a choice of three angles for the whole keyboard: flat, four degrees or eight degrees. Far less so than when I’ve played around with “full” ergonomic keyboards, but it led to more mistakes initially. This is meant to be a more natural angle for fingers to hit down, and it does make sense, but I found my muscle memory needed a tweak. So, the R points very slightly to the left the U very slightly to the right. A keyboard is typically flat, but the MK850 has a small crest at the middle of the main keys. The keyboard is also noteworthy for its subtle ergonomic design. Logitech MK850 Performance review: the keyboard Logitech has given the keyboard an ergonomic hump Similarly, three white buttons sit to the right of the MK850’s keyboard, so flicking between the paired systems is easy.

A small button sits under the 1 | 2 | 3 module on the left of the mouse, and when you switch a white LED flashes to show which device is active (so 1 might be your Mac, 2 your tablet, etc).

WIRELESS KEYBOARD AND MOUSE FOR MAC MANUAL

That’s one of the reasons I ended up sticking to manual selection, but that’s easy enough.

I had problems with dropped connections during my fortnight using the MK850 as my main keyboard and mouse, and sometimes had to restart Bluetooth on my laptop to make the mouse recognise my system again. So, all ingenious stuff, but don’t imagine it’s perfect. And you can link the keyboard too: it follows the mouse’s lead as to which device has the focus. This is one customisable mouseĪs if that wasn’t darn clever enough, you can even cut and paste between two computers. Now, if you enable Logitech Flow, you can switch from one computer to the other simply by swishing left or right – just like an extended desktop, the cursor will jump from one screen to another.

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Things get really clever once you install Logitech Options on said Mac and laptop. So, you could plug the supplied USB dongle in your Mac, say, and then use Bluetooth to pair with your Windows laptop and iOS tablet.

Its key differentiator is that you can pair the MK850 with three separate computers at once. As its £99 price hints, it’s aimed at serious users, but while other manufacturers justify their high prices with ergonomic designs or bags of features, Logitech offers both. The Logitech MK850 Performance is a curious wireless mouse and keyboard combo.

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