Ergonomic keyboards are a must as you get older. I have been using one since 2000. When i type on a normal keyboard for more than a few hours I suffer from tremendous wrist pain and can't type for hours afterwards.
Davy Sent from my starfleet datapad. On 14 août 2013, at 19:05, David Richards <ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com> wrote: A bit off topic and a bit on topic. I've been in the market for a good developer keyboard for a while but never seem to find anything I like. I was just wondering if others on this list had found a decent keyboard. A few qualifying points: I don't want a number pad or at least I don't want one on the right of the keyboard. Not that I have anything against them, I just want my mouse to be closer. I've tested this using a cheap (and crappy) laptop like keyboard and there is a noticeable difference in comfort. I can just as easily by a separate number pad keyboard to position elsewhere. I would prefer the cursor keys and the other navigation keys to be in a reasonable location. My "crappy" keyboard as some of these along the bottom. It also sacrificed the right Control key in favour of a Scroll Lock key. Who uses scroll lock any more? I don't like those "ergonomic" keyboards that split the keyboard to be comfortable for two hands. I don't know about the rest of you but I spend at least as much time with one hand on the mouse and the other on the keyboard as I do with both hands on the keyboard. So the ergonomic aspects are actually a hindrance when typing with one hand. I don't care about media buttons or any other specific use button. I never user them. They just make the keyboard bigger. 20% of the keys on my current keyboard will never be used. Obviously I want the keys to be comfortable to use 8 hours a day. The recently announce keyboard from microsoft is fairly close to what I'm looking for: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/08/microsofts-new-ergonomic-keyboard-is-just-plain-weird-looking/ But it's ergonomic style is a bit of a negative. Any thoughts? David "If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!" -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama
