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MacStories First Look of Logitech's MX Creative Console
John Voorhees, on macstories.net:
[…] the MX Creative Console comes in two parts. The first is a wireless dialpad with a big knob, a scroll wheel, and four programmable buttons; the dialpad is wireless because it has no screens, allowing it to run on AAA batteries. The second part is a keypad with nine customizable buttons plus two buttons for paging among multiple sets of the nine buttons. The two devices can work together, allowing, for example, a press of something like a brightness button on the keypad to control brightness via the dialpad’s knob.
I recently got a 16 key Megalodon Triple Knob Macro Pad for my birthday. And I’m loving it. It’s extremely geeky, but it has convinced my about the power of specialized keys for apps.
The Logitech’s MX Creative Console, as well as the Elgato’s Stream Deck, are way more user friendly. I’m still happy with my Macro Pad, but a cheaper and simpler version of the Logitech, similar to the Stream Deck Neo will be something to keep in the radar.