New keyboard again

Posted by Nico Golde in
Tuesday, February 27. 2007

After a few month typing on fairly new Cherry keyboard I felt somehow uncomfortable with it so I started searching for a new keyboard.

I thought about buying one of these natural ergonomic keyboards but they have two drawbacks, they have many additional function keys which are not supported by non-Window$ (zoom for example) and which I don't want and they are made by Microsoft.

My new keyboard is a Dell Spacesaver and I feel really comfortable with it,particularly because it has absolutely no special function keys (ok apart from the MS-key) and the flattened keys at the bottom of the keyboard feel really good when typing.

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Oh, DELL keyboard

I had bad experiences with DELL products.
You should really buy a basic IBM keyboard !
They are much better than DELL.

#1 Alex on 2007-02-27 20:36 (Reply)

We have such keyboards in masses at work. They really suck. They are much too small and you can't lay your hand on it (at least not confortable).

@Alex: The Dell guys don't build their own keyboards. Usually they are just branded Cherry keyboards (and the mice are Logitech).

#2 Doomshammer (Homepage) on 2007-02-27 21:39 (Reply)

@Alex, what kind of bad experiences?
@Doomy, you have some further information about this? Since the typing feel really different from my old cherry keyboard.

#3 nion on 2007-02-27 21:55 (Reply)

@Doom: indeed, they may not build their own products. I had a Dell monitor, and when I throw it up because it was too old, I saw "philips" on the back, inside

@nion: in fact, I didn't really had bad experiences, but many people told me that they had bad experiences with Dell products.
However, I once wanted to repair a DELL laptop that just "stopped working", with no luck. After opening it, I have noticed that it was very fragile inside; I have considered its quality quite bad. I could compare its quality with a old Texas Instruments and some Sony VAIO, that I have opened before; their quality seemed much better.
I think that you already know that some batteries made by Sony had a fabrication fault; however, I have only heard about Dell laptops exploding, thus those batteries were in many other laptop manufacturers :
http://labs.pcw.co.uk/2006/08/dells_exploding.html
https://www.dellbatteryprogram.com/Default.aspx

#4 Alex on 2007-02-27 23:15 (Reply)

I forgot to add that we have exactly the same dell keyboards at my university. As Doom said, I found them unconfortable because you cannot lay your hand on it.
The keyboard does not ships with something to put at the bottom of it, in order to lay your hands on ?

#5 Alex on 2007-02-27 23:27 (Reply)

i have no problem with no thing to lay down my hands... never had a keyboard with this ability. but you can also buy some thing to adapt it to your keyboard...

#6 nion on 2007-02-27 23:35 (Reply)

When typing properly, there is absolutely no need to lay down your wrists. Moving your fingers while your wrists are laid down yields additional force at the sinews, which may - over a mid- to long-term period - lead to tenosynovitis or even RSI.

#7 ak (Homepage) on 2007-02-28 09:42 (Reply)

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