On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:47 AM, Peter da Silva <pe...@taronga.com> wrote:
> > The truly mind-boggling thing is not that the Apple keyboard came top, = > > but that there are nine keyboards that are even worse than it, and many = > > unreviewed keyboards that weren't even as good as those ten. > > Most of them have laptop or chicklet style keys. If you're going to have a > full sized keyboard on your sedk, why not get one with decent keys? > Because at the moment I use keyboards with both laptop keys and "decent" keys, and I find that the laptop keys with shorter travel are, *for me*, more comfortable and less prone to error. > Not that I'd buy a wireless keyboard anyhow. Batteries are hateful. > Batteries > in something that have no good reason to have batteries are foul. > This, I entirely agree with. I once inherited a Logitech DiNovo which *only* had the Bluetooth+battery option. This would have been great had I ever used the keyboard from more than 3 feet away from my computer, which never happened. How much more would it have cost to add a USB port, for god's sake? Similarly the Magic Mouse, which I have come to love after some fits and starts, is only available in a battery-chomping model. -- Yoz
