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A Keyboard for Your Living Room

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Computers, once relegated to the office, are finally making their way into living rooms as media center PCs. These computers aren’t meant to deal with spreadsheets or things of that nature. Instead, they’re designed to store and play back all of your digital media, from movies to TV shows recorded off the air to your music collection. With almost all our media being stored digitally these days, the day has finally come for PCs in the living room.

That means, however, that we need to upgrade our remote controls. You use a keyboard for your computer in your office, so why not one for your computer in your living room? The Logitech diNovo Mini Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard for Home Theater PCs is meant for just that. Wireless and small, it’s designed to sit on your coffee table and not look like an errant piece of office equipment. Instead, it will help you search through shows on your DVR schedule, your movie listings, and your music collection. It’s a peripheral that’s worked wonders for the PC elsewhere for many years, so why not bring it into your living room now as well? It’s time.

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  • Daniel J. Wehrle
    This keyboard not only looks very Fabulous & a Beautiful item, it also is a very useful item for the Computer Elite.
    I can see myself using this keyboardv every day with my living room computer, Thanks.
    D. Wehrle
  • Lance E Sloan
    This keyboard looks nice, but I have a few questions about it. Does it work with Mac OS X? When the round pad is in mouse mode, does it behave like a joystick or is it like a trackpad? Do the Li ion batteries charge directly in the keyboard or do they need to be removed? Is it a special battery pack or standard-sized batteries, like AA or AAA?
  • Atane
    Lance, according to Logitechs website, the diNovo mini is not compatible with Macs. However, this does not mean it won't work. It is bluetooth afterall. I've seen many products that weren't compatible with OS X based on what the manufacturer states, but still worked to a large degree. However, I have to go by what the manufacturer states, so YMMV.

    The "round pad" is a dual purpose clickpad. You can use it as either a touchpad, or a directional pad i.e. joystick.

    The battery charges directly in the dinovo mini via the ac adapter. So once you put in the battery for the first time, there is no reason to remove it.
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