I like keyboards with built-in USB hubs. Some Lenovo keyboards have this.
https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-73P2620-Enhanced-Performance-K...
Why the Amazon Basics Keyboard Is My Favorite Keyboard
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which decent mechanical keyboard has the feature of being $14.50?
Most engineers with jobs aren't making compromises on the price when their goal is comfort and usability.
You're right. I bought a $250 Leopold FC660C to combat repetitive strain injury, because my doctor said to minimize the distance between the home row and my mouse pad. But most less-expensive 60% ("ten key-less") boards either lack arrow keys or have obnoxious, loud switches. These weren't feasible because I use arrow keys all the time for Visual Studio and I work in open-office hell. The Leopold has quiet Topre switches.
I'd buy a $15 keyboard in a heartbeat if it wouldn't hurt my wrists. But for me, the Leopold is a medical device. I would have paid twice as much for it, which has nothing to do with the key switches at all.
In fact, I did pay 2x for it because I bought one for my home system as well.
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#83I’ve used many different keyboards. I can’t say I’m a keyboard connoisseur, but I’ve probably used every possible combination of “keys” arranged on a “board”. My takeaway from all this is that the switches matter a lot less than how keys are arranged. You see, human hands will become injured over a prolonged period of contortion into the shape needed to operate standard keyboards. For this reason I prefer ErgoDox. https://ergodox-ez.com/
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#84My favorite keyboards is the Microsoft Sculpt Comfort. I can type for hours without any wrist pain compared to all my other keyboards.
My previous favorite was the Natural 4000 Ergonomic, and now the Sculpt Ergonomic. In both cases, I have had keys wear out* and have gone through quite a few, but like them enough to put up with the trouble. Of course, I could get the 4000 for $20; I tend to have to spend closer to $60 to get the Sculpt! * The Natural 4000 space bar was the worst offender. On my Sculpt Ergonomic, I've lost an 'L' and 'F5'.
I've had mixed results with the 4000. I have a Natural 4000 from 1997. Every key still works great. I also bought one in 2016. That one had sticky keys (space) that never worked themselves out. It was by far inferior.
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#86Maybe it's just because my keyboard is >15 times as expensive but I have an extremely hard time believing that the Amazon keyboard is in the same league. I can't help but feel like if the author unironically prefers a $15 keyboard (and believes that mechanical keyboards are all loud) then maybe he shouldn't be writing a blog post about keyboards because he doesn't really know what he's talking about.
Re: 15x price - Price != performance, you pay for features you care about; brand itself being one of them. I say that typing on a 50% Ducky 3/4th the planet would consider as crap because i have no arrow keys (and think I'm insane as I paid more for the exclusion)
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#87My keyboard of preference is the HP Wireless Elite Keyboard v2. I've been using them for a half dozen years. At first, I didn't care for it because there was some central flex. I fixed that with some rubber sticky feet and now it is very solid. The only other thing I would change is to add back lighting.
The bundled mouse is rubbish. Don't get that unless there's a better deal on the bundle and then toss it.
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#88This article is an affront to everything I know and have experienced about keyboards, all to post a non-disclosed affiliate link.
I have no problems with affiliate links not being disclosed. Why does it matter? If they're providing a useful link to someone, I don't care if Amazon gives them a few pennies as a reward. If their link is not useful, no one is harmed.
Because it may just be that the article is written around the links, rather than the links inserted into the article.
Sure you might not bother buying the keyboard after clicking through but the affiliate link is tied to you for x days, so they'll get a bit of cash of anything you buy in that time.
Why is it a problem if it doesn't cost you? It costs you the time to read it. Disclosing acknowledges this potential and explains what's going on in advance so you know you're not just reading trash someone wrote to make a quick buck.
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#89My favorite keyboards is the Microsoft Sculpt Comfort. I can type for hours without any wrist pain compared to all my other keyboards.
Yeh unfortunately I can't even try any of these boutique keyboards, because they are all inevitably plain rectangles. I don't know how anyone types on those things without wrist problems. Ergo 4000 or the Sculpt Comfort for me. The 4000 seems to be bombproof, everything is completely polished off the keys at the point, and still going for the past 12 years.
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#90I don't even remember why scroll lock exists
It's handy to lock your cursor on the right PC if you use Synergy [1] but aside from that I've never used it