20/06/2014
The Logitech MX5000 package includes the Logitech MX1000 wireless laser mouse, wireless keyboard with LCD readout and a wireless USB dongle that provides the Bluetooth connectivity between your peripherals and laptop. The MX5000 package is Logitech's high-end offering for wireless keyboard and mouse technology. Following is a full review of this product.
Included with purchase of MX5000 Wireless Desktop set:
MX 5000 keyboard for Bluetooth
MX 1000 Laser mouse for Bluetooth
USB Bluetooth mini-receiver
Rapid-charging base station with AC adapter
4 AA alkaline batteries
CD with software, comfort guidelines and Help Center
Quick Start Guide
Three-year limited warranty
MX1000 Laser mouse:
The MX1000 mouse is absolutely amazing! The Bluetooth version of the Logitech MX1000 wireless mouse that can be bought as its own separate product is actually the same in every way as the mouse included with this MX5000 package. The color on top of the mouse is gray, in the older version of this mouse it was more of a blue (the MX700). This mouse can be used as a gaming mouse as it has amazing response, precision, comfort, and enough buttons to match anything you could dream up. Some included buttons are: forward and backwards browser buttons, scroll wheel, a paste button, and a zoom button (this button is great for Photoshop fans). And for those interested in benchmark numbers, I'm getting a refresh rate of 82-98 Hz (this is a very good rate for a Bluetooth mouse, and any wireless mouse for that matter). As a comparison, the Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer for Bluetooth 2.0 gets a refresh rate of only 41-54 Hz. Remember, a mouse with laser tracking = more accurate mousing.
MX5000 Keyboard:
What can I say? It's another keyboard. The keys are of a soft-touch type and less clickety-click than Logitech keyboards used to be. There's a sleep mode so if you don't hit any keys for over 30-seconds then keyboard sleeps and then when you hit a key it takes about a half-second to register while the keyboard "wakes up". The time for sleep mode to kick in seemed kind of short, but it's designed so to help save the battery life (keyboard requires 4 AA batteries). There's an LCD screen to provide feedback on keyboard status, it's okay if not slightly gimmicky, it would be better if I were a multimedia or messenger ju**ie. The touch area of the keyboard I find hard to use and is not properly set up for most quick set applications (in my case Dell's QuickSet). To increase the volume there's a touch sensitive slide controller, but it takes multiple "strokes" of the finger to get volume up or down all the way, a scroll wheel for volume would have been better.
