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I recently got a Keychron Q11 split keyboard. The quality of the keyboard is so good that I think the people involved in making these keyboards must be truly keyboard lovers.
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> They lived an average of 3yr under my hands. How can you destroy a Model M?
Beating someone to death? My m13 has lasted 20 years - though it needs a new cable because of flakey plastic.
My first job was very much a garage shop web hosting business so I just rummaged through the boxes and found an old IBM model M (not realizing its later cult status).
At another later job I just grabbed a full length apple keyboard with numpad that was laying around. During boring times at that job I placed in top 20 at typeracer with that keyboard.
Whenever I tried to be like other nerd friends and buy a cool nerdy clicketyclack keyboard I always ended up disappointed.
Now the last 15 years or so I mostly used Thinkpad keyboards and they're just fine.
I recently got a Keychron Q11 split keyboard. The quality of the keyboard is so good that I think the people involved in making these keyboards must be truly keyboard lovers.
Are the keys less squeaky now? I've got an older Keychron, and it's great ... so long as I'm wearing headphones.
Felt a lot like you know, a ~2000s thinkpad keyboard, low profile concave caps, like how laptops felt before every laptop became a crappy macbook clone with flat keycaps. It went out of production like a decade or more ago and nothing has been close to the same ever since.
I have a Logitech MX Keys too. Though when I got it I also had some concerns about how charging it would be a odd experience, after 1.5 years or so of usage I just have to charge it in like each 3 months - and still you get to use it while it's charging. I don't use the backlight feature so I guess for other people that time between charging can be shorter. I haven't had the need to disassemble it for cleaning so I u…
I ended up buying the same keyboard for home and I really enjoy typing on it. My only complaint is that it's difficult to remove the keycaps for cleaning and some dust somehow got inside and I can see it on the little solar panels.
Typing preferences are very subjective, but I've grown to really enjoy working on this keyboard. I've used it so much that the texture has pretty much worn off of most of the keys and I'm starting to lose the printed letters on the key caps. I've thought about buying a few replacements and storing them because no product is sold forever...
I really don't understand the numpad-less trend of fashionable keyboards. Doing any kind of number entry beyond one or two digits is very annoying without one. They also don't take up that much space really. If your keyboard is a portable one you pack with you on trips, I get it. If it lives on a desk, why not splash out the small amount extra to make number entry much easier.
The MS Sculpt (in the article) comes with a number pad as well, I've had it for years and left the number pad in the drawer.