Due to ongoing product enhancements, the battery door on the sleek keyboard you receive may be either glossy or matte. The layout of the keyboard looks very tidy, and there is a numpad on the right side. The normal keys are about 1.6 x 1.6 cm (~0.63 x 0.63 in) and have a distance of about 3 mm to each other. For optical reasons, the corner keys are rounded just like the corners themselves, but this leads to unusually small size ratios especially in the upper, already reduced key row on the outer keys. This at least questionable design decision has also been implemented between the number pad and the rest of the keyboard, so for example the right arrow key feels different than the left arrow key due to its rounding in the lower, right corner. "entf" and "pos1" are also reduced in size again as a result.

Logitech MK470 cordless combo features a compact modern designed keyboard with low-profile scissor keys, a number pad and a layout optimized for Windows. Simple plug-and-play USB nano receiver offers a strong reliable 2.4 GHz wireless connection with 10 m (33ft) of range(1). (1) Wireless range may vary based on environmental and computing conditions.

Design

Whisper quiet keyboard and lab-tested, noise-reduced mouse means an ultra quiet work experience for you and those around you both in the office and at home. When using the mouse for the first time, you first notice the flat surface, which makes the model nestle less in the palm of the hand than mice with an upward curved surface. In direct comparison, it seems as if the hand cannot rest quite as comfortably on the mouse; the hand always has to be "held" itself. Therefore, the mouse isn't moved very much with the inner surface, but mostly by the fingers on the sides and the thumb. Due to the inserted AA-battery, the otherwise light plastic mouse does add a bit of weight to the mouse pad, but the mouse is still quite light overall, which makes it react a bit more sensitively than some other models. This can make especially quiet and precise control tasks a bit more complicated, and the mouse pointer jumps off a bit faster than in heavier models. The arrow keys are also reduced in size, measuring only 1.3 mm (~0.51 in) in width. The height of the up/down arrow keys is also halved, so they share an already reduced key field, which makes it very fiddly. Auto-sleep feature saves battery life, allowing for 36 months of keyboard use and 18 months of mouse use(2). (2) Battery life may vary based on user and computing conditions