Hi, this is my first post. I'm glad to find this forum with so many enthusiasts about mechanical keyboard. The reason is that I just got my first mechanical keyboard, and I'm hooked!
A little bit history. Probably like many people posting here, I work 8-12 hours in front of a computer everyday. About half a month ago, I started experiencing pain in my mousing wrist and elbow. I decided it was time to start looking for a better ergonomic solution than my laptop keyboard + mouse on a standard 29" desk solution. My employer is kind enough to get me an adjustable keyboard tray and a track ball, and I also got the 3M ergonomic mouse. All these have been helping me to reduce and get rid of the pain I had. To get the mouse (or track ball) closer to my keyboard, I also looked at different keyboards that are of different configurations. One thing led to another, I found a
DSI left handed mechanical keyboard. Compared to the other choice, the Filco tenkeyless, the DSI is significantly cheaper, and, despite the rather wide border, I can get the mouse closer to the letter keys, I ordered it last week. It came last week, and I've been using it at work and home. It has the Cherry MX blue switches, and, needless to say, feels much better than the rubber dome keyboard I had been using.
One thing that puzzles me is that the part number on the back of the keyboard doesn't match the number on the keyboard order page. I only found online one place that has a
review in Chinese for this part number. So maybe the same part is sold in different markets under different part numbers? Regardless, both the stock picture and the blog page pictures match the keyboard I got. (The blog author said in the review that he replaced the blue switches with black, and the keycaps, so no confusion there.)
I don't see this keyboard mentioned in the wiki page. I wonder if anyone has used it. I thought I should mention it, just so if there are people who are looking for a keyboard with even smaller footprint on the right hand side than the tenkeyless, they know there's this keyboard as an option.
Right now, I'm trying to get my wife to try to type on this clicky keyboard. If she does like it, I'll have an excuse to order a tenkeyless Majestouch maybe
