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tetravellor

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Jan 7, 2007
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Hi,

Six months late, oh well.

Now, allow me to vent my spleen!

The Logitech S530 Keyboard for MAC with Azerty (French / Belgian) keymapping

1. It is visually attractive, slim profile.

2. The key layout is not compliant with Mac OS, the @ and < keys > qnd #are reversed, you need to install the dreaded Logitech Control Center for this to be sorted out. (well I did it in the end by editing DefaultKeyBindings.dict)


3. It is impossible to make | [ ] ~ on this keyboard without third part software such as popchar, there is no "ALT-GR" modifier key as normal AZERTY PEE-CEE keyboards have. This is intensely frustrating as a Unix user.


4. Logitech control center. 211 Crashes my Mac continually, or rather the silent install of Unsanities APE does. the uninstaller does not remove it by the way.

5. Logitech control center 212 doesnt even recognise the keyboard (or the oversensitive mouse)

Now, because most people who have the product, and I say this with all due respect to them, dont speak perfect english - the English speaking Logitech has paid them, no attention. Obviously, or they would have fixed it by now.

This product is a pile of rubbish, it is overpriced, doesnt function as needed and in short is a very poor offering from Logitech.

My solution will be to buy a US keyboard, but - gee, I had to say what I felt about how Logitech have dumped rubbish on the french speaking world!

Shame on you Logitech.
 
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