Keyboard poll

[Dare2]

[thefool]

lol yeah i would suspect you to have feminine parts

I use a trackball, a logitech optical one, and its lovely! Also for 3d games

[CodeMonkey]

I swapped to a logitech trackball when I started getting pains in my wrists took awhile to get use to but wouldn't go back to a mouse now

As for keyboards the space above the arrow key is a must, I'm a shift-insert kind of guy and I noticed a couple of keyboards have replaced the insert and delete keys above the arrow keys with a single delete key and I find those a nightmare to use.

[thefool]

hehe
i had the same reasons for switching to a trackball, and after you have learnt to use it, its wonderfull!

[Trond]

Here's a tip for those Keyboard makers. Have one that LED lites up at night (all keys!) and has 17mm (like my laptop) key travel. Then wrap that all up in a Natural (ergonomic) style and I would buy such on the spot!

Or, has someone a link to such a keyboard?

Who needs LED? Don't know where your keys are?

All of my keyboards have been 'creatively borrowed' from various places...As have all of my mouses (can you believe thats the correct plural?) and speakers...

The correct plural of "mouse" is "mice".

[dkirk]

Anybody here try this keyboard out yet?
http://www.daskeyboard.com/

[thefool]

übergeeks
nice!
never tried it, though

[GeoTrail]

$80? Should be much cheaper since there haven't been used a laser to burn the letters on the keys.

[dkirk]

$80? Should be much cheaper since there haven't been used a laser to burn the letters on the keys.

I agree with you to a point. I am more intrigued with the different weighting used and illustrated here:

http://www.daskeyboard.com/images/keygrams.jpg

For a quality keyboard that I actually enjoy using would be worth the $80 to me. I am growing weary of absolute junk that I end up throwing away in a short amount of time, but I did get a good "deal" on it.

[GeoTrail]

What does that mean? How heavy it is?

[dkirk]

Yes, the amount of effort required to register as a keypress. For example, your outside "Pinky" fingers don't have as much strength as your thumbs, so the thumb keys will require a bit more effort while the outside keys will require a lighter touch.

[GeoTrail]

Aaa now I see what you mean.
I was actually thinking of getting one of those old model keyboards, or a sledgehammer typewriters hehehe. My girlfriend says it sounds like I'm trying to kill my keyboard. Old habit I guess hehehe