Can someone explain to me the attraction of wireless keyboards? I get wireless mice: they're much easier to reposition - but my keyboard stays in one place all the time. Do other people move their keyboards repeatedly?
Edit: Never mind, it looks like the keyboard can connect to multiple devices at a time. That's really cool.
(If the Microsoft Ergonomic keyboard came in wireless, I'd get one - one less wire making it sub-optimal when I'm ready to swap keyboards.)
1) I switch between a mac (work) and windows (leisure/gaming) and thus switch between a mac wireless keyboard and a mechanical windows one. I move one to the side so the desk doesn't get cluttered.
2) Desktop cords depending on what computer I'm using are a pain to route properly.
I've had big and small keyboards. With smaller one, I find myself setting aside to make more room on desk on ad-hoc basis, since my desk is rather small.
Also, having a wire sticking out of small keyboard perceptibly creates more visual clutter. Could just be me ;-)
Even if I use a wireless feature (switching the keyboard to another computer, typing while farther away from my desk) only once a year I still win out.
Some people carry external keyboard and mouse with their laptop for when they dock.
There are a multitude of reasons, but for something fixed to a desktop I don't find many upsides personally.
The laptop also moves, and I take the wireless keyboard with me when in the office. That way I can use a real keyboard in both locations - my employer does provide the wired Apple keyboards in office, but I'm not a fan.
The dongle is instant on. Bluetooth wake up is fast (compared to repairing, or having to disconnect one device to connect another, which I guess is your experience you're comparing to?). So changing to the machine with the dongle in it is instant, the one with bluetooth connection ~1s.
The way I do it does mean the setup only works for n=2 devices, but also reading the thread there seems to be some multi-machine feature in the app if you use that too.
Meanwhile using USB cables to switch means crawling under my desk or having multiple cables cluttering my desk.
- I play games using a separate, even smaller, keyboard. Easy to pick up my wireless work+everything else kb and toss it somewhere out of the way
- Sometimes I like to recline my chair way back and continue typing with the keyboard on my lap
Going wireless would be considerably less visually interesting than what you can do with a nice, attractive cable. (but I'll concede that wireless is heaps better than using the ugly/boring/fragile thin black cables that typically get bundled in with keyboards at no additional cost)
No, but I move my laptop repeatedly.