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Definitely a classic keyboard and fantastic in its own right, but there are so many more options these days, especially from Kinesis (originally said Logitech, but they don't make ergo keyboards anymore). Not surprised to see it go.
Definitely a classic keyboard and fantastic in its own right, but there are so many more options these days, especially from Kinesis (originally said Logitech, but they don't make ergo keyboards anymore). Not surprised to see it go.
As corporations "consolidate" choice disappears. More are more products are bound to be removed and only the most successful ones will remain. Only when there are medium sized companies consumers have choice.
Is that a bad thing? Now it will free up the space to promote more competition between medium sized company.
most of the newer competing options to for my microsoft natural 4000 - not available to touch in person at my local best buy / office depot/max
So I look many times at amazon which has some similar at a good price, some with backlit keys and such - I've ordered a few - none of them feel the same.. one has a wierd feel that makes me cringe like touching neoprene (not everyone has that ick feel with that material) -
the keypresses are not the same either - so I am not using any of the new options but it looks like I will at some point.
I'd like to see more 'cases' for the non-msoft / non-logitech keyboards - (want to take full size ergo keys to different places) searching recently I've mainly seen just a couple of options for the two big known brands.
Of course this is keeping on the budget side of things. I've kicked the rabbit hole of ~200+ options and like what I see, but really want to touch and feel before such a buy.
tldr - the consolidation has sucked up choice at the retailers, and also the retailers themselves - and some competition has been good it seems, but not as great as if amazon had a mobile truck that would bring every no name ergo keyboard to touch and feel first before buying.
Definitely a classic keyboard and fantastic in its own right, but there are so many more options these days, especially from Kinesis (originally said Logitech, but they don't make ergo keyboards anymore). Not surprised to see it go.
Yeah, I was going to put in a plug for Kinesis. I used to love the Microsoft keyboards and now use a Kinesis split mechanical keyboard. It's $200 which is not the cheapest keyboard but if you type a lot it's worth spending money on something you find comfortable.