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Offline sealcouch

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Best Tenkeyless or Small For under 50$
« on: Thu, 20 January 2011, 08:46:58 »
I'm kinda leaning towards a SIIG MINITOUCH at this point. Are their any other good boards in this price range?

Offline jpc

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Best Tenkeyless or Small For under 50$
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 20 January 2011, 08:57:41 »
I've snagged two Model M SSK's off the bay for $65 and $68. One needed a bolt mod badly. One was in great usable shape. If you like buckling spring, and are patient, and can save a few more $$, they are great keyboards.

My GHSS minitouch had the balky, crunchy Type II XM alps switches. Ehh they're not great. I briefly considered swapping them with Alps-branded-Alps off an AEKII. Desoldering is difficult...

The stabilizer on the Minitouch's Enter key is oriented vertically. You can press the key anywhere along its tall right side and it works fine. If you press the left side of it (ie, if you are used to horizontal ANSI enter keys) it will jam up. Only the vertical part of the L-shape works well.

That minitouch was not my favorite board, it wasn't usable day-to-day.

On the plus side, the minitouch layout was fine, with only minor key remapping.

RSI prevention recipe:[/B] Kinesis Contoured, Colemak layout, touch typing, Contour Design Rollermouse,  Logitech TrackMan Wheel, Logitech m570 trackball, "workrave" break timer software, "awesome" window manager, tenkeyless boards, cherry browns, Wang 724 with "ghetto green" ALPS, standing desk and/or comfy adjustable chairs, stress reduction, computer time reduction.

Fun non-ergonomic things: bolt modded Model M Space Saving Keyboards with new springs, Kensington Expert Mouse v7, Unicomp Endurapro, Northgates