A slim keyboard and laptop-style touchpad combine with the convenience of wireless in the Logitech TK820 Wireless All-in-One Keyboard. If you’ve ever wished for a laptop-style touchpad for your desktop, or fumbled with a wireless mouse while using a home-theater PC, you’ll appreciate the Logitech TK820. And, with Windows 8 gesture support, it’s also an excellent accessory for making the newest version of Windows more intuitive, even without a touch screen.

Design and Features
The Logitech TK820 is a wireless keyboard that earns its all-in-one moniker by replacing the 10-key numeric pad with a large clickable touchpad, providing you with a wireless keyboard that removes the need for a wireless mouse. As someone who has personally fumbled about with plenty of wireless mice and attempts to balance mice on precarious surfaces like the arm of a couch or the cover of a hardback book, this one feature is a significant improvement.

The slim keyboard features a sleek design with a two-toned color scheme, dark grey with blue accents along the edges. The ultra-slim design is in many ways similar to the Editors’ Choice Logitech K810 Bluetooth Illuminated Keyboard, but with the added touchpad and without Bluetooth connectivity. If even the compact 0.8 by 16.1 by 5.6 inches (HWD) dimensions of the TK820 All-in-One keyboard are too large for your liking, you might be better off with something designed for travel, like the Microsoft Wedge Mobile Keyboard.

The keyboard has a chiclet-style key design, with sculpted, slightly rounded keycaps. In designing the keyboard, Logitech has modified the standard scissor-switch used in most chiclet-style keyboards, using what Logitech calls the “PerfectStroke” key system. The resulting key movements are smoother and quieter, though they still don’t offer the rich tactile feedback found with mechanical key switches. The keyboard also offers media controls and Charms keys that further enhance your Windows 8 navigation, letting you cycle through open apps, jump to start screen search, and use Windows 8 sharing tools at the touch of a button.

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The integrated touchpad measures 4.17 inches square, providing plenty of room for navigation and clicking, but also providing support for numerous gesture controls. If separate from the keyboard, the touchpad would be extremely similar to the Logitech T650 Wireless Rechargeable Touchpad. The TK820 supports 13 different Windows 8 gestures, including swiping from all four edges, three-fingered swiping and tapping, and even four-fingered swipes that let you snap windows right and left or minimize with just a swipe.

Last but not least, the TK820 is also wireless, connecting to the PC via Logitech’s Unifying receiver, a tiny USB dongle that’s small enough to plug in once and leave in place, even on a laptop. The 2.4GHz wireless signal lets you operate the keyboard up to 33 feet away, and because it uses Logitech’ Unifying technology, you can use that same dongle to connect multiple additional Logitech peripherals. Because it’s wireless, the Logitech TK820 Wireless All-in-One keyboard powers off of four AA batteries, which Logitech claims should last up to six months with daily use.

The TK820 was made for use with Windows 8 (though Windows 7 is also supported), but not for older versions of Windows or Mac and Linux systems. Logitech’s SetPoint software is necessary for the full range of gestures and commands, but this optional download also lets you tailor the experience to your liking, letting you tweak both the keyboard and touchpad with custom commands. Logitech also covers the TK820 with a three-year warranty.

Performance
In day-to-day use, the Logitech TK820 works very well as a keyboard, but only alright as a mouse. The touchpad tracks movements accurately, and the inclusion of Windows 8 gestures is a definite plus, but the decision to use a full clickpad, without discrete right and left buttons, takes some getting used to. Operations like click and drag are now done with a single finger, trying to do it with two fingers tends to trigger other two-fingered gestures. Adding two buttons would eliminate these problems entirely, letting you have both traditional operations and gesture support without the muddled overlap.

The keyboard itself offers one of the better typing experiences I’ve had with a chiclet-style keyboard, enhanced by the tweaked scissor switch keys and the sculpted keycaps. But the real pluses of the keyboard come from the touchpad, making it easier than ever to really enjoy the benefits and flexibility of a wireless keyboard and mouse.

Aside from the quirks of the touchpad, the TK820 is a very good keyboard in a very convenient package. Whether you want something you can use while sitting on the couch, or just want something a bit more flexible for your home or office desktop, the Logitech TK820 Wireless All-in-One Keyboard does the trick pretty well. It doesn’t quite wrest the top pick from the Editors’ Choice Logitech K810 Bluetooth Illuminated Keyboard, but if you want something with an integrated touchpad and don’t need Bluetooth, the TK820 is a great alternative.