geekhack
geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: IBI on Wed, 10 June 2009, 11:35:52
-
I bought a shortboard (http://www.keyboardco.com/shortboard/keyboard_big.asp?PRODUCT=306) about a month ago, and now that I've used it for a while I'm getting ready to write a review on it. I bought it myself to try out the layout - it is rubber dome and not an exceptional one so there won't be great interest here in buying it, but there is a lack of information about it on the internet so I do want to write something and as this is a keyboard forum it's a better place for the review than most.
My current list of points to cover is:
General:
Key feel
layout
construction
Specific points:
LED brightness/colour
delete/insert position
Fn key behavior.
home/pgup/etc.
numlock functionality.
weight.
matrix (WASD and sdfjkl combinations)
feet and difference in feel with them down.
I have the version without the built in hub so I can't check USB1.1/USB2.0 compatibility or speed.
Does anyone have anything they'd like to know about the keyboard or suggestions of things others may be interested in?
-
I'm sure you would have mentioned key spacing in your "Key Feel" comments buy you can also measure it (http://geekhack.org/showpost.php?p=92935&postcount=124).
Most of these mini keyboards either get categorized in a review as "unusable for my fat fingers" or "works for my small hands". That doesn't help me much.
I hadn't thought to mention it, but that's a good point and I'll include a mention that the keys are normal size.