Saluton bill :) On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:18:13 +0800, bill lam dixit: > On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > > And not only they have the gall to call that "Natural Ergonomic", > > but people believe them, to boot! Well, I guess there's no end to > > how far salespeople will go to sell their crap. Give me a good old > > rectangular keyboard any time (I prefer Belgian AZERTY but I can > > use US QWERTY if I have to). Have you ever seen any piano keyboard > > divided into curved sections each the width of a hand (maybe an > > octave or slightly less)? No, of course: pianists are more sensible > > than typists. :-P > > I really like keyboards in those good old days. High quality > mechanical switches with rebounce feel and click sound. Nowadays > if/when I ask a salesman for a good keyboard, he can only recommend > wireless, m$, logitec keyboards. Feeling of typing with membrane > key is just like playing on a paper piano.
I had an old IBM keyboard, which surely weights 100 kilos XDD The key feeling was great, and I was much more proficient when touch typing with that keyboard than with any other keyboard I've ever used. The mechanical switches gave much better feedback, and the click sound was annoying for the people around me but was very useful to me, specially when typing keys with my weak pinky finger. Unfortunately I had to switch to a more silent keyboard and anyway the Enter key broke in the IBM keyboard. When using Vim and typing commands blindly I really like a clicking keyboard, to avoid hitting "qip" instead of "gqip" ;) Keyboard intensive apps, like Vim, really benefits from keyboards which give some kind of tactile or audible feedback. My current Logitech crapboard has a soft touch and most of the time I don't know if I've hit a key or not until I see the result (or I read the screen...). Raúl "DervishD" Núñez de Arenas Coronado -- Linux Registered User 88736 | http://www.dervishd.net It's my PC and I'll cry if I want to... RAmen! We are waiting for 13 Feb 2009 23:31:30 +0000 ... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
