I'm interested in:
1) Is the key layout OK for you? The extra column on the left is different.
2) Pic of size next to keyboard - this guy looks big.
3) What's the undo/redo thing?
4) Don't sweat the whole key feel thing too much - it's gonna be clicky. Do you like it so far?
- Ripster
Hi, Ripster.
My squarespace hosting site is down at the moment, so I can't provide pictures to answer #2.
Otherwise:
1) Is the key layout OK for you? The extra column on the left is different.The layout is nice, actually. I'm going to re-map shift to = (how the hell could they produce a numpad aimed at Excel and other numerically intensive applications and not include =)?! Other than that glaring oversight, no complaints about the layout.
3) What's the undo/redo thing?There are two membrane-based buttons above Del and Ctrl on this numpad (columns 3 and 4 from L to R on a standard numpad) that act as CTRL Z (undo) and CTRL Y (redo) in supported applications. According to the instruction manial, these functions can be remapped using something like autohotkey.
4) Don't sweat the whole key feel thing too much - it's gonna be clicky. Do you like it so far? It's no model M, but I like it. I've done about 100 keystrokes on each key to this point, and I'd say 1 out of 100 of those keystrokes misses, which pisses me off. I'll keep this numpad, because it clobbers the brown switch-equipped Kinesis (that one occasionally missed keystrokes too, which is why I sold the thing). I don't know if I didn't properly depress the key during the stroke that missed, but I don't have this issue ever on an M. I still stand by my statement that the M is the best keyboard in the world and is far superior to anything else available at
any price.
Please look for pictures and a more detailed review tomorrow. Hope this helps.
Cheers,
~rn.