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Title: Worst-Feeling Keyboard Ever
Post by: microsoft windows on Wed, 18 August 2010, 08:48:15

I have to use these low-quality, horrible things at work today. They'll probably give me arthritis.

(http://www.empirisoft.com/images/directin_apple.jpg)

Now I'm starting to understand why some of you all are bringing your keyboards to work...

Title: Worst-Feeling Keyboard Ever
Post by: Ekaros on Wed, 18 August 2010, 08:50:57

I agree that brand is horrible, it should be erased from world...

Title: Worst-Feeling Keyboard Ever
Post by: microsoft windows on Wed, 18 August 2010, 08:59:48

I want to run that piece of **** over with my truck and cut it in half with my chain saw. And then I'll see if it'll blend.

Title: Worst-Feeling Keyboard Ever
Post by: Zen on Wed, 18 August 2010, 09:39:39

Hey, it's got a LED in the capslock-cap, funky cursive legends in the lower left corner
AND 2 fruit-caps, what's the problem ? :)

Title: Worst-Feeling Keyboard Ever
Post by: washuai on Wed, 18 August 2010, 10:21:33

Don't forget it has the curve and nearly no bezel.  
I've never had to type on one of these, I think I'll just be happy.

Title: Worst-Feeling Keyboard Ever
Post by: ch_123 on Wed, 18 August 2010, 10:25:16

I found the current generation Apple keyboards to be quite pleasant for a low travel keyboard. Those previous gen ones are as mushy as hell though.

Still nothing on the DEC LK-201.

Title: Worst-Feeling Keyboard Ever
Post by: microsoft windows on Wed, 18 August 2010, 10:26:40

I hate the new Apple keyboards, but not as much as these pieces of trash.

Title: Worst-Feeling Keyboard Ever
Post by: instantkamera on Wed, 18 August 2010, 10:35:35

Im sure everyone is with me in saying that all these new touch screen keypad/boards ala iPhone/iPad/blackberry storm/new MS touch keyboard/etc are the worst feeling "keyboards" ever.

Title: Worst-Feeling Keyboard Ever
Post by: microsoft windows on Wed, 18 August 2010, 10:41:35

I wouldn't call them keyboards since they don't got keys.

Title: Worst-Feeling Keyboard Ever
Post by: keyboardlover on Wed, 18 August 2010, 10:59:20

Quote from: instantkamera;213919

Im sure everyone is with me in saying that all these new touch screen keypad/boards ala iPhone/iPad/blackberry storm/new MS touch keyboard/etc are the worst feeling "keyboards" ever.

I noticed it when I switched from a Blackberry to a Verizon Droid Incredible...I miss the feel of the 'real' keyboard of the Blackberry and I can't type anywhere near as fast. I make more typing mistakes and I can't type with two hands or do "no look" typing. Touch keyboards, in a word, suck.

Title: Worst-Feeling Keyboard Ever
Post by: MissileMike on Wed, 18 August 2010, 11:57:30

I have that very keyboard in the OP and can confirm that it is, without a doubt, the worst keyboard ever.

Title: Worst-Feeling Keyboard Ever
Post by: microsoft windows on Wed, 18 August 2010, 11:58:06

I want to get one and burn it.

Title: Worst-Feeling Keyboard Ever
Post by: nraymond on Wed, 18 August 2010, 12:08:50

Quote from: microsoft windows;213877

I have to use these low-quality, horrible things at work today. They'll probably give me arthritis.

You could start this same thread and replace that keyboard with just about any keyboard from any major manufacturer today.  At $WORK the employees prefer their 3-year old Logitech rubber dome keboards to the new OEM Dell rubber dome keyboards that come with the latest $3k workstations.  And that Apple keyboard you're showing isn't even a current model.  Lame thread.

Title: Worst-Feeling Keyboard Ever
Post by: Vittra on Wed, 18 August 2010, 12:12:51

Quote from: keyboardlover;213936

I noticed it when I switched from a Blackberry to a Verizon Droid Incredible...I miss the feel of the 'real' keyboard of the Blackberry and I can't type anywhere near as fast. I make more typing mistakes and I can't type with two hands or do "no look" typing. Touch keyboards, in a word, suck.

Find yourself Swype and stop using the default keyboard app.

:)

Title: Worst-Feeling Keyboard Ever
Post by: wellington1869 on Wed, 18 August 2010, 12:38:45

maybe we have 2 thunderdome candidates here.

[evil grin]

Title: Worst-Feeling Keyboard Ever
Post by: phototristan on Wed, 18 August 2010, 14:46:57

None of the boards mentioned so far are that bad compared to the Atari 400 membrane keyboard:

(http://www.vintage-computer.com/images/atari400.jpg)

It wasn't even a touch keyboard, you had to press kinda hard. Scarred me for life as a kid!

Title: Worst-Feeling Keyboard Ever
Post by: EverythingIBM on Wed, 18 August 2010, 15:52:37

I really can't stand the commodore 64 keyboard, particularly due to the fact you're just pushing down on springs and there's no threshold for the switch to "snap down" (constant pressure being applied to your fingers). A rubber dome would have been way better; and ironically, most likely cheaper to produce.

Title: Worst-Feeling Keyboard Ever
Post by: aegrotatio on Wed, 18 August 2010, 16:15:19

Winner.

(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=12201&stc=1&d=1282166104)

Title: Worst-Feeling Keyboard Ever
Post by: Ekaros on Wed, 18 August 2010, 16:58:54

Quote from: phototristan;214030

None of the boards mentioned so far are that bad compared to the Atari 400 membrane keyboard:

Show Image

(http://www.vintage-computer.com/images/atari400.jpg)

It wasn't even a touch keyboard, you had to press kinda hard. Scarred me for life as a kid!

This is likely the most horrible possible tech for keyboard...

Title: Worst-Feeling Keyboard Ever
Post by: Findecanor on Wed, 18 August 2010, 17:19:36

I never used any other early 8-bit computer than the Commodore 64.

It was a very long time ago, so I don't remember too much, but I remember that I very much disliked the Atari 520 STE in comparison to the C=64's.
The feel is largely linear, but very mushy at the bottom. The key caps were quite wide on the top, so I mistyped a lot.
The function keys were the worst, though: they were flat, flush with the top of the case and rhombus-shaped to go with the diagonal design theme of the case. You mistyped these even more.

Title: Worst-Feeling Keyboard Ever
Post by: ch_123 on Wed, 18 August 2010, 18:08:13

Quote from: phototristan;214030

None of the boards mentioned so far are that bad compared to the Atari 400 membrane keyboard:

Show Image

(http://www.vintage-computer.com/images/atari400.jpg)

It wasn't even a touch keyboard, you had to press kinda hard. Scarred me for life as a kid!

Point taken. I will accept that a keyboard with no travel and no tactility is going to be worse than anything else...

Title: Worst-Feeling Keyboard Ever
Post by: EverythingIBM on Wed, 18 August 2010, 18:16:18

Quote from: ch_123;214140

Point taken. I will accept that a keyboard with no travel and no tactility is going to be worse than anything else...

On the POSITIVE side, it has a fairly big spacebar.

Quote from: Findecanor;214118

I never used any other early 8-bit computer than the Commodore 64.
It was a very long time ago, so I don't remember too much, but I remember that I liked the Atari ST keyboard even less than the C=64's. The key caps were quite wide on the top, so you mistyped a lot.
The function keys were the worst, though: they were flat and diagonal! You mistyped these even more.

The C64 has nice keycaps (feel really great to the touch, especially the indented surface), but it's just utter trash to type on.

Title: Worst-Feeling Keyboard Ever
Post by: ch_123 on Wed, 18 August 2010, 18:22:27

I seriously wonder if that thing works no matter where you press the spacebar... I'd bet it has some contact points along the place.

Title: Worst-Feeling Keyboard Ever
Post by: aegrotatio on Wed, 18 August 2010, 23:24:54

The Atari 400 spacebar's secret of actuation is one of the mysteries of modern computer technologies.