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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: hyperlinked on Sat, 17 July 2010, 16:32:46
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I was at OfficeMax today and saw that they had the Logitech Comfort Wave (http://www.logitech.com/en-us/keyboards/keyboard/devices/5994) keyboards there and I tried it out. I have to say that they feel really nice with their very subtle shifts in key positioning. It's sort of like a Kinesis Contour flattened out and it features oversized modifier keys that are easier to hit han the normally placed ones.
(http://www.logitech.com/assets/21024/21024.png)
Of course they were rubber domes and the only thing that'll keep me from getting one of these is that I know that those domes will feel like **** after I pound on them day in and day out for a month. In a minute of typing, I already felt a few keys catch so I know it's just won't cut it. Also the spacebar felt very flat. It either had a different length of travel or no recoil. Either way, it made it feel very odd.
I'd love to see someone make a mechanical with this slightly curved design because I like the idea of split ergo keyboards, but find them very impractical for many things I do and because they're impractical I change the way I use them and they end up causing pain instead of being more comfortable. Something like this is like having a bit of the ergo board without losing the practicality of a traditional board.
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Eew. That keyboard looks like such a piece of plasticky junk.
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Eew. That keyboard looks like such a piece of plasticky junk.
It's a crappy logitech rubber dome too. I've used logitech keyboards lots of times. I don't like their stupid mice either, and their logo is an ugly eye -- like NVIDIA.
And people complain about model Ms being big, that logitech thing is HUGE. Especially with the stupid multimedia buttons which require bloatware drivers to even use.
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Those things wear out really easily. I had to type one once, and the keys just felt sticky...
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BTW, I should make certain to identify that this keboard isn't just curved like a lot of non split ergo keyboards are, but the keys have slightly different heights depending on which key it is and that's why I said it's kinda like a flattened Kinesis Contour.
Those things wear out really easily. I had to type one once, and the keys just felt sticky...
Yeah I figured that'd be the case. If someone made a quality version of this with mechanical switches or at least good rubber domes, I'd be all over it.
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Yeah I figured that'd be the case. If someone made a quality version of this with mechanical switches or at least good rubber domes, I'd be all over it.
I wouldn't unless they had a beige version without multimedia buttons.
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tried one today at TigerDirect. What a POS. The layout isn't the issue though.
TD have a whole aisle of keyboards, one side logis, the other side MS. Both crank out rubber dome garbage, but I have to say that the logitechs are consistently the worst feeling keyboards I have ever used. The entire line-up.