I just joined the forum because my current keyboard is slowly dying, and I'm looking for a replacement, and maybe you can help me find the perfect keyboard.
My current keyboard looks exactly like that (except it's not a Cherry Stream XT but a Logitech UltraX Premium):
What I like (and would like to keep) is the overall 105-key layout, with keypad, navigation keys, F keys, winkeys and the big double-row Enter key. I like thin laptop-like keys, but I can do without.
What I don't care about is color, key labels (I'm mostly touch-typing), the key "feel" (I'm comfortable on my Logitech cheap keyboard, and I assume it got the worst feel you can get), whether it's a commercial product or a hobbyist/hacker kit, and to some extent the price.
What I really don't like, and absolutely want to avoid, is the staggered rows. If I'm here and not just buying another one of these cheap Logitech or Cherry keyboards is that I would like to go to a non-staggered layout. Here is a mockup of my ideal layout:
I browsed the forum a bit looking for non-staggered keyboards, but all I found was ergonomic or matrix like keyboards, while I'd really like to keep the overall layout of the 105-key standard keyboard.
So do you know of any keyboard, be it a commercial product or a geekhack-er experiment, with a layout close to the second picture?