Logitech Cordless Desktop MX5500 Revolution
The Logitech Cordless Desktop MX5500 Revolution keyboard and mouse set is a fantastic Bluetooth set that combines so many great features right at your fingertips.
Ease of Use, Performance: 25/25, Look & Feel: 23/25,
Features 25/25, How much I enjoy 24/25
Total: 97/100
Logitech just keeps the fantastic products coming and the MX5500 Revolution just goes to show what someone can do to continue a great tradition of useful and user friendly computer peripherals. The MX5500 Revolution keyboard and mouse are both fantastic devices in their own rights and combined equal a great computing experience.
The MX5500 Revolution keyboard is a fully featured keyboard with an LCD screen for a great and convenient display of important features. Using the display for a calculator adds convenience to many users but you get so many other functions from it. During normal operation you can use the LCD display to act as a media display, calculator, mail notice and time/date function.
The display has only the preset functions but it is so nice to have the time at your disposal all the time when computing or gaming as there are so many times that I would like to have this in front of me without having to look up from my work at a calendar or clock on the wall. It’s the little things in products that make the most impact and the MX5500 has plenty of them.
The display also features media center support so you can see the current movie or video playing on the display as well as a time line of the current item playing. This is again not a big thing but it adds up like the two keys below the display for what you have programmed into the four favorites keys. There are four favorites keys that act with the function key as addition quick start or shortcut keys just like the extra set of functions for the regular function keys.
Simply press the FN key between the right control and alt keys and you have a second set of function keys for the F1 through F12 keys. The F1 through F12 keys are pre assigned as common ones and you can reprogram all of them but the first eight have little orange pictures for their default settings. The other four have the letters A through D as the secondary function and are preset for Media Player, Search PC, Document, and Control Panel.