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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Findecanor on Thu, 05 August 2010, 15:26:30
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You had me thinking there for a second that the scissor mechanism was of metal ... but sadly, no. That would have been something...
It is the face that is brushed aluminium, anodized black. Looks nice..
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Did someone say minitouch?
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Aye, if siig did a minitouch version, maybe work would actually buy it, so I won't have to buy my own work board. Still cheaper than buying a hacksaw that I don't have space for, even though I'd love to own more tools. For that matter, my tools need a tool box, as it is. Won't stop me from wanting an 87U, but I think I'm pretty much hosed, until whenever they release their next special edition.
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I needed something to use with my Eee that would fit into the keyboard drawer of a desk I inherited and I picked one of these Siigs up a few months ago. It's good as scissors keyboards go. I like the layout because it is a completely standard US QWERTY keyboard, and they haven't shrunk anything much or removed the numpad or moved other things around.
It has a block of four special function keys above the numpad. The volume and mute buttons work in Ubuntu with no effort on my part other than turning on the kernel's support for such keys in general; I don't have to remap anything when switching back and forth between the Siig and the Eee's built-in keyboard.
The scissors mechanisms are some of the better ones I've typed on, but of course bottoming out is still compulsory. I do about 80-100 wpm on this, and 100-120 wpm on my Scorpius M10.
The USB hub works swimmingly. My Eee will even boot from a thumbdrive plugged into it when it's on the left-side port.
The aluminum case is great. I tend to send the current Dell scissors keyboards sliding across the desk when I type on someone else's at work, but this stays put due to its weight and the relatively large area of its rubber feet.