#Bluetooth keyboard for mac Bluetooth#
The K811 is a must-have Bluetooth keyboard if you're an iMac user. It's unfortunate that two important function keys, the Mission Control and brightness keys, are useless when used under either OS X and iOS. Luckily the standard function buttons you've come to expect certainly do work with iOS like the home button which when double pressed can perform different tasks, play/pause, mute and volume buttons work as well. Brightness keys don't function under iOS. The same can be said when using the K811 with an iPad. You'll also find dedicated Mission Control function key which strangely does not work in Mountain Lion. As for music playback controls, there are play/pause and mute buttons but no skip controls due to the limited space. If you're on a Mac, you have access to on-screen brightness and volume controls including a drive eject button. Logitech's Easy-Switch functionality works like a charm, but trying to support multiple devices in this case both OS X and iOS while accommodating each of the device's respected hot key structure, is the K811's Achilles heel. Unfortunately, the K811 isn't perfect when it comes down to its "hot keys", or function keys depending on how you'd like to call them. It's an ingeniously reliable way of fool-proofing this keyboard to both work towards being conveniently functional, and smart in saving energy.Īlthough there's really nothing bad to say about this keyboard, there's a weird compatibility nuisance I think should be mentioned. Are you keeping track, Apple?īesides the K811's handful of advertised features like the aforementioned motion and ambient light sensors, Logitech fails to mention that there's a third touch-sensitive feature added to the aluminum surface which helps the K811 detect your moves in order to keep the backlit keys lit up until you completely lift off your fingers away from it. It only goes to show that Logitech can create some of the best peripherals known to man. Bluetooth pairing is also quite reliable and not once have I experienced any issues with lagging, pairing or quickly switching between two paired devices using the K811. As the name implies, Logitech's Easy-Switch keys let you effortlessly and nearly instantaneously switch between typing on one device and onto another.
#Bluetooth keyboard for mac mac#
Multi-task much? The K811 is an Easy-Switch Bluetooth keyboard, meaning that like the K810 and the K760 before it, it features three Bluetooth hot keys which can be assigned to your Mac and various iOS devices like your iPad and iPhone.
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