I've got my Kinesis for nearly a year now and am fully adapted to it. My occupation concerns a lot of text entering and now I refuse to use anything else but the Kinesis. Be advised, this board comes with obvious flaws which are those rubbery function buttons on the top roll. I added 2 palm keys and reprogram the rubbery buttons for easy access. I like this board a lot, but given a second chance, I might get an ergodox instead for compactness. I think the cheapest new ones you can get is from amazon.com. If you want even cheaper then go with a second hand one from ebay. But given that the ergodox group buy is currently running, I would suggest you give that a serious thought, if you can built your own keyboard.