Someday I might switch up the keycaps but it’s hard to find a set that isn’t too tacky. It takes up such a small amount of real estate and it’s a joy to use. I can hear an infinitesimally faint buzz from the LEDs when they’re on full blast, and the keyboard suffered a bit of ping before I installed the foam.īut now that it’s all set up, I love it. Oh, and those novelty keys in the corner are Deep Fields from PrimeCaps-Canadian made!Ī quick review: for the price the build quality isn’t what it should be. The space key is a Hako Royal True, just for fun. The Alt has hot-swappable keyswitches, so under the modifier keys are clicky Kailh Bronzes and under every other key is a tactile Kailh Copper switch. I suppose that the purists hate them because they are gimmicky (and I am a person who usually hates gimmicks on principle) but this set is really just right (except for the stupid crescent moon one (is that "sleep"?) and one with a rocket that I never have figured out.This is my low profile Drop (née Massdrop) Alt. When I find an IBM M I will certainly buy it and give it a thorough trial, but these extra buttons have totally spoiled me. This is a sweet keyboard and I have several of them second-hand as backups. I will admit that while they work perfectly in XP, I have not gotten them all up and running in Ubuntu (lineak gets me only partway there). Your "touch typing" reaction just incorporates these keys like they were just another letter or number. Having become accustomed to that, even half a second dragging the mouse around and making at least one click seems DREADFULLY slow and clumsy. You get very spoiled very fast when opening any of these applications takes one quick stab with a fingertip (onto a rubber key - heaven). This keyboard has a complete set of music keys (Play/Pause, skip Forward/Back, Volume Up/Down, and, most important, Mute) and 7 programmable keys that I actually want: Internet, email, photo editor, word processor, spreadsheet, places, and wikipedia are what I am currently using. When I buy a calculator, I look for rubber keys because they feel so good. Now, I must admit that I am a sucker for rubber keys. I would upload a picture but the icon above only seems to want to let me link to a URL. This beige/gray keyboard came with Presarios circa 2000-03. The primary keyboard has the nice shape and feel of the IBM 8923s, and the bonus keys are rubbery. The one I keep coming back to is the SK-2800 "internet" keyboard with extra keys scattered across the top. Compaq made great keyboards a decade ago, I have owned several models. The noise of the Northgate can get annoying, even for me, but the light touch is gratifying.īut I have a dark secret, that would cause me shame with purists, if I cared. There is good feel and sound, but people can sleep in the other room when I work at night.įor me, the shape, size, and configuration are what counts, and the mechanism is secondary. That is, (for someone like me, a big strong guy with big hands) the keys are tall, widely separated, and concave on top. Both have conventional keys, but the layout is right. The KB-8923s are particularly good and the KB-7953s are OK. My keyboards at work are IBM post-Model-Ms (blasphemy, I know) that are really pretty nice and easily found for a couple of dollars second-hand. I have a Northgate Omnikey 102 from 1990 that is pretty nice, if you want a behemoth on your desk. Allow me to dodge the question a bit and describe a few keyboards that I like.
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