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One keyboard to rule them all: the Logitech MX Keys Mini test

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Use a single keyboard to manage a Mac, a iPad and also a iPhone? It’s possible thanks to the multi-profile Bluetooth keyboards, but not all of them achieve a satisfactory level of performance, design and compatibility with the Apple world. Small idiosyncrasies that make the experience frustrating at times. Few instruments are exceptions, including the new one MX Keys Mini per Mac di Logitech, which we have tested over the past 3 weeks as an alternative keyboard for 3 different devices: a Mac Mini M1, an iPad Pro 12.9 M1 and an iPhone 13 Pro Max.

A keyboard is only for one thing: typing. And this is, in fact, the only thing we journalists do: write. So, in recent weeks we have exclusively used the Logitech keyboard for drive the 3 devices of daily use: a Mac Mini, an iPad Pro (which has removed the Magic Keyboard with integrated keyboard and touchpad, replaced by a metal mini-stand) and a Phone 13 Pro Max. A hundred articles and emails and some tens of thousands of words later, here’s how it went and the opinion we made.

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In short

  • Logitech’s MX Keys Mini is one keyboard dedicated to Apple products

  • Allows you to connect up to 3 stored devices

  • It is compact, but heavy: it is not a travel keyboard

  • Excellent battery, charged with USB-C cable, shutdown button included

  • The keys are precise, sturdy and comfortable, better than those of the Apple keyboard

  • The fingerprint reader for secure wireless unlocking is missing

  • Of quality, but expensive: about 100 euros in the price list

How the keyboard is made
The Logitech MX Mini keyboard is the compact version of the MX, with only the central part of the keys and without the satellite with numeric keypad. Basically, it’s the equivalent of Apple’s Bluetooth keyboard for its computers, which is called the Magic Keyboard. The new MX has a size of 65% compared to its older sister, but has a very robust and heavy structure (about 500 grams), with a more raised profile than that of Apple’s Magic Keyboard.

The Italian version for Apple devices produced by Logitech has some details that distinguish it both from traditional keyboards for PCs and from those for Mac of the past, but slightly different from those found on modern MacBooks with M1 processors. The keyboard is backlit and has a series of function keys that expose the commands to adjust the connection with up to three different Bluetooth devices, the backlighting of the keys, the search function, the volume, the reproduction of multimedia contents, access to emoji, taking a screenshot and Full Immersion mode, i.e. Do Not Disturb instead of the computer shutdown button. The only problem is with this last button.

Weight and portability
Despite its more compact size, the keyboard is not intended for mobile use: it is stable and almost heavy and feels comfortable in the middle of the desk. Battery life is remarkable, thanks to the low consumption Bluetooth (also compatible with some Logitech connectors) and the generous space for the internal accumulator (of which Logitech does not provide the technical specifications). The company indicates that the keyboard will work for up to 5 months with the backlight off and 10 days with the light on. We have no reason to doubt it, because even keeping the brightness on continuously for a week we never needed to recharge it. For the rest we have always used it with the automatic brightness management. It is recharged by connecting it with a Usb-C cable.

How do you spell that
The keyboard is easily recognized by all Apple devices. THE 3 function keys at the top left they allow you to establish the first contact and then recall one of the memorized devices from the memory. We configured the Mac Mini on the first button, the iPad on the second and the iPhone on the third without any problems and the transition from one to the other has always gone smoothly. The only hitch was using the keyboard for wake up the Mac Mini from the stand-by state: with iPhone and iPad everything went smoothly, but it didn’t always work on the Mac (however, just touch the mouse and you get the same result).

The most important thing about a keyboard is, of course, how you write and here the experience of those who write for work comes into play: the Logitech keyboard is an excellent, normal keyboard. It works very well, but it is certainly not extraordinary. It has a considerable excursion of the keys (2 millimeters), which are firm as well as the body is firm thanks to the weight and strength of the frame. The response is natural and immediate, the keys are not hard to tire the fingers and are hollowed out in the center to favor the action: surely this Logitech performs better than Apple’s Magic Keyboard for Mac, which has a much lower profile and a less accentuated inclination, which forces the wrists to be parallel to the writing plane. But let’s say that the Logitech keyboard only performs relatively better than Apple’s because the the fingerprint reader is missing which is instead present on the latest model of Apple keyboard released with the new iMac and now available for all Macs equipped with an M1 processor.

Furthermore, it is an excellent, normal keyboard because at this figure the first entry level models of mechanical keyboards with customizable keys are available that offer a completely different typing experience and, for some, more satisfying even if noisy and very uncomfortable if you are. work in an open space or with other people. Instead, the MX Mini is a normal keyboard, silent and precise, two factors that lay decidedly in its favor, despite being a traditional keyboard with membrane keys. The available colors are graphite, light gray (the one tested) and pink.

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Write and configure
The keyboard does not give delays, doubling or loss of letters when typing even fast. Bluetooth has no latency. The keys are stable and typing is precise, non-tiring and silent. Compared to Apple’s compact and wireless keyboard, this model is slightly larger, significantly heavier and offers a more angled writing surface with 6 degrees compared to Apple’s 3. The frets are slightly higher (therefore more comfortable) and hollowed in the center to favor the precision of the touch, and are less hard than those of other keyboards. The special keys (i.e. the top row) are partially different from those found on Apple keyboards and cannot be changed except by downloading the Logitech software. However, the preset functions are very simple and it is easier not to complicate your life.

The high price compared to third-party keyboards (especially imported from Asia) is justifiable by the quality of the construction with metal frame and 5 stabilizing feet, by the regularity of operation and by the attention to detail. The Italian layout with the correct indications for the Apple world in the right order (for example, the Command key with the Apple symbol instead of Windows) and that it works correctly right away, with all the functions of the operating systems of the Cupertino products, is the greatest advantage and explains why this equipment costs more than low-end keyboards. The heaviness despite the compact size, however, characterize the Logitech MX Keys Mini as a desktop keyboard and not a travel one.

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