14.01.2011 3:12, Nick Sabalausky пишет:
"Walter Bright"<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message
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Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 05:43:27 +0200, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
The keyboards fail so often I keep a couple spares around.
Let me guess, all cheap rubber-domes? Maybe you should have a look at
some professional keyboards. Mechanical keyboards are quite durable, and
feel much nicer to type on.
Yup, the $9.99 ones. They also get things spilled on them, why ruin an
expensive one?<g>
I've got a $6 one I've been using for years, and I frequently beat the shit
out of it. And I mean literally just pounding on it, not to type, but just
to beat :) With all the physical abuse I give this ultra-cheapie thing, I
honestly can't believe it still works fine after all these years. "AOpen"
gets my approval for keyboards :) (Heh, I actually had to turn it over to
check the brand. I had no idea what it was.)
I never spill anything on it, though.
I felt very depressed when my first keyboard failed - the rubber shocks
got tired and started to tear. It served me for more than 10 years in
everything from gaming to writing university reports to programming
(pounding, dropping and spilling/sugaring included). And it was an old
one - without all those annoying win-keys and stuff. Never got another
one that would last at least a year. One of the recent ones died taking
with it a USB port on the mobo (or maybe it was vice-versa, I don't know).
