Many of us dislike cables to the point of doing absolutely everything possible to get rid of them. The obvious thing to do is to buy a wireless mouse and keyboard. However, you’ll immediately hit into a major wall - the price. Wireless kits tend to be much pricier than their wired counterparts, and you also need to constantly switch batteries, which makes the wireless option not only costly, but ultimately futile in terms of simplifying things.

A kit consisting of the MK700 keyboard and the Marathon M705 mouse, presented at the end of last year, comes in a huge greenish and white box. Besides the “stuff”, it also contains four standard alkaline batteries, a Logitech micro USB receiver, the extension cord for it and a set of manuals, instructions and the accompanying paperwork.

The keyboard is, expectedly, black, and with a low-profile style, which means that it’s ideal for long typing sessions. When we say low-profile, we really mean that in every way - the buttons and the keyboard itself couldn’t be any thinner. The keys have a particular shape that Logitech named “incurve”, and it’s basically a concave shape which should make the fingers fit better and more naturally. The keys also have a rubber feeling to them and it’s a wondrous experience to work with them, but we’ll deal with that a bit later. Another specificity of this keyboard is a tiny LCD display located in the upper mid part of the keyboard and displays battery state, and a few active keys such as function, caps lock, num lock and scroll lock. All in all, a practical addition. Another thing that we’d like to mention is the position of the key used to run the calculator. It’s located above the numerical part of the keyboard, practically making for a standalone calculator!

The following feature, invention if you like, is related to setting up the tilt angle of the keyboard. This particular model can be set in two ways, to an angle of four degrees by using one set of pins or an angle of eight degrees by using another one.

The only real drawback we’ve noticed is the fact that the ring around the keys and the screen has a glossy finish, making it a real fingerprint magnet, which is something that we always tend to dislike.

The mouse that comprises this kit as well is, as we’ve already stated, a Marathon M705, the size of which places it somewhere between a standard desktop mouse and a miniature notebook one. It’s definitely aimed at right-handed users and ergonomically fantastic, with a great grip and short period required to get accustomed to. A typical representative of the latest Logitech generation, we may say. A mix of dark grey and black, paired with an irregular, interesting shape and the “revolutionary” scroll wheel - in short.

So how has this aesthetically excellent product fare in real-world conditions?