Just curious. Do bluetooth wireless keyboards like this one have any noticeable real world functional benefits over non- bluetooth wireless keyboards?
Yes. Night and day (if the darned thing works).
There’s no USB dongle to deal with, and if you are using it with a laptop, then it’s uber cool because you just turn the keyboard on and it works.
This is my desk, keyboard, and mouse. Clean and lean. It looks great and works great.
Of course, there’s that caveat of getting it to pair correctly in the first place. Once you pass that hurdle, then all is good.
ETA: I have noticed that I get super range compared to USB dongle keyboards. In fact, when I gave my MacBook Pro to my wife and switched to the iMac, I got weird keyboard pairing issues several weeks later, when she happened to open her MacBook in another room in the house while the keyboard was seeking its mother ship—it still remembered her machine, so I couldn’t get the darned thing to type to mine.
Based I my experience I would hesitate to ever purchase another bluetooth keyboard. Granted mine was a Logitech, and while I generally like their products the bluetooth drivers simply broke the product. I could either not use any of the extra buttons on the keyboard / mouse by not installing their software, or the keyboard would only work about 25% of the time. I had it for two years and they never fixed this well known problem with their software.
Regardless of software issues from what I understand understand unless you plan on using your keyboard more than six feet away from your computer you are better off going with an RF keyboard than bluetooth simply because it is a lot cheaper and you lose no functionality.
I have not tried a Bluetooth keyboard but have used other Bluetooth devices with a PC, and they have worked so badly that I now wouldn’t consider any product with Bluetooth in it.
The things I worked with were very complicated, very unreliable, and very hard to troubleshoot. They had to be repaired every time I wanted to use them. I eventually bought 7 different brands of Bluetooth dongle to try to make things work, and joined two different discussion forums specifically about Bluetooth. I spent a good 20 or 30 hours fighting with these things before I gave up and changed goals.
I have the Logitech MX 5000 Laser cordless desktop, and the Bluetooth mini-receiver is connected to a USB port on my laptop.