keyboard vs. shoes

Posted by Nico Golde in random blurb
Monday, June 26. 2006

Today I tried to find a new keyboard and noticed that all the modern keyboards are really big crap. There are different possibilities why they are.
Here are my main reasons:
- nearly all have additional keys to launch programs (hey if you are not able to launch a program by typing its name use your mouse)
- the keystroke sucks on most of them (bless you if you have one of these old IBM keyboards with USB adapter)

- they have keys at places your old hasn't.

This was the first try ever for me buying a keyboard (in the past I always got one from fnord) and its really the same procedure when
buying shoes. The only difference is that you will not wear them around your shoes but you will wear them under your hand.
What the ductility and the size of a shoe is, is the keystroke when looking at keyboards. But not only the technical aspects are important, also
the optical aspects are. Shoes have to look nice and also your keyboard should, cause you use it every day.

So where is IBM today, producing good old ~10kg keyboards with USB adapters?
The only reason why I bought a new keyboard and not just a PS2==>USB adapter is that at my local hardware dealer this would be as cheap as a new keyboard.

And here is my new one, a Cherry cymotion expert

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german layout? d'oh

#1 bb on 2006-06-26 21:59 (Reply)

nah comparing keyboard layouts is like comparing zsh and bash. waste of time.
us layout also sucks, most of the layouts suck except ristome, dvorak and a few other. But keyboards with this as default are really really expensive.

#2 nion on 2006-06-26 22:33 (Reply)

Sure that's waste of time, because what should be better than zsh and us layout with own mappings?

Besides the happy hacking keyboard (quite expensive) I like Cherry keyboards with the softtouch keys (IIRC its named like that, more expensive than usual keyboards but definitely worth a try and not that expensive as a HHK).

regards,
-mika-

#2.1 mika (Homepage) on 2006-06-27 00:06 (Reply)

#2.2 bohnsopp on 2006-06-27 18:56 (Reply)

when comparing keyboard layouts with shells, german layout is neither bash nor zsh. more csh. but I admit: ALL layouts suck. Even dvorak is no solution to the keyboard layout problem. the only solution is a secretary, who does the dirty keyboard work (or, if you boss won't spend a secretary for you, use a speach recognicer like via voice or dragen dictate)

#2.3 bb on 2006-06-27 21:28 (Reply)

I've bought some 2 weeks ago 2 IBM keyboards. I didn't bought them from the IBM site but from a store (very hard to find). I suppose Lenovo does them now.
I like those ones.
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=psg1MIGR-42731
Before I had a labtec one which was quite good but after one year it wasn't usable any more.
http://www.labtec.com/index.cfm/gear/details/EUR/EN,crid=28,contentid=631
Before that one, I had an old "digital" keyboard (I still keep it) which is wonderful but makes more noise.
Talking about both keyboard and shoes, I think that quality is more important than the design.

#3 Alex on 2006-06-27 02:15 (Reply)

just bought a cherry g83: http://www.sirius-lagerverkauf.de/images/ei00093.JPG (usb)

#4 ILF on 2006-06-28 01:05 (Reply)

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