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Best Keyboards for Every Occasion
Therac-25:
--- Quote from: bigpook;16552 ---Thats a pretty damning review : )
I don't think I could deal with the sticking tab key. My wife was using a cheap logitech rubber dome for awhile that had the same behaviour. At first the logitech was fine and she was happy with it but she is a pretty good typist ( She does close to a 100 WPM) and after a month or so the keys started to get wonky. They had to be pressed down directly, not at an angle. She complained a bit but I couldn't fix it. I ended up giving her a DasIII. She has been happy ever since. I expect that keyboard to last awhile. I don't get the blinky light thing or the extra cruft that goes with. Its all form over function. And open box at 59 dollars is no bargain either.
What a ripoff.
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Indeed, but combine a new shiny black case with four blue LEDs with fake promotional pictures of the keyboard and poor impulse control -- a "discount" was enough for me to give it a shot. (This was a new box with no existing keyboard for it, so I wasn't replacing anything with the purchase...)
--- Quote from: bigpook;16554 ---So what do they do? Do they grin and bear it? Or are they replacing their keyboards. I would think it would be torture to type all day on a POS keyboard.
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Depends. The only programmers I know that have Macs have laptops, so they don't have to deal with throwing theirs out or anything. They just don't buy it (aside from how horrible it is, it's also just expensive for a crappy keyboard anyway -- like $50 in Canadia dollars. Again we're back at expensive crap, while equally priced quality is ignored).
I don't think any of the current gen Macs in the graphics department at work still have the default keyboards (but I could be wrong on that one, I'm not One Of Them, and they aren't really typists anyway). Even my mom brought this one up with me, as she's doing some more work on her PhD, and has to type alot on her iMac. I can just feel my fingers curl back running my fingers over the Mac keyboard, so I can imagine how she felt about facing lots of typing on it. Other than the F/J bumps, there's no tactile way to tell where you are on the keyboard... *shudder*
--- Quote from: bigpook;16555 ---I can see where for some people the numpad is important but for me its like an unneeded appendage, just hanging over the right hand side. Makes for poor ergonomics for right handed people going for the mouse.
I mouse on the left hand side but still don't want the numpad. I just don't have a need for it.
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That's why my wife learned to use the mouse with her left hand. Stupid ergonomics of the keyboard. The only use I've ever had for the num pad is for extra keybinds in some games.
itlnstln:
I love how "soft and cushy" keys are considered pros. I think those adjectives are completely the opposite of the majority of feelings on this site, so, yeah, we're that different.
lowpoly:
--- Quote from: Therac-25;16548 ---On the bright side, everyone I know who types something for a living finds the current Mac keyboards as repulsive as they should.
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You don't know my wife.
Therac-25:
--- Quote from: Therac-25;16557 ---
I don't think any of the current gen Macs in the graphics department at work still have the default keyboards (but I could be wrong on that one, I'm not One Of Them, and they aren't really typists anyway).
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Sadly, I have to report that this isn't the case. Almost all of the graphic artists in that dept. at work have the Alu keyboards.
*sigh*. To be fair, they aren't typists.
My dad even likes his (although neither he nor his wife touch type, so it's not mystifying). He just liked the shorter travel on them, which would be a nice change coming from the average PC keyboard.
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