I have *The Don* of keyboards

[kained&able]

im still waitinf for this to become affordable and less vapour warey.

http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/

You shouldn't use legs on your ketboard by the way if anything you want to have the keys sloping away from you, its much better for your wirsts.


dave

 

[untethered]

You shouldn't use legs on your ketboard by the way if anything you want to have the keys sloping away from you, its much better for your wirsts.

Indeed, like on the Microsoft Natural Keyboard which has the prop stand at the front rather than the back.

 

[untethered]

im still waitinf for this to become affordable and less vapour warey.

http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/

That's premised on the idea that you're looking at the keyboard.

A good keyboard should be designed so you don't have to look at it.

 

[Xanadu]

That's premised on the idea that you're looking at the keyboard.

A good keyboard should be designed so you don't have to look at it.

It's useful when learning new software shortcuts, but not worth £1000.

 

[kained&able]

It will be so good for games, web stuff and like design stuff.

and yeah no way worth the money at the moment if it came down to £500 and i had a fair bit of cash spare i would be very very tempted, i reckon the only way it wqill happen is if logitech/microsoft/whoever buy/nick the idea.

I want one though!


dave

 

[Radar]

Return key is too small, and they've rearranged the home/end/pgup/pgdn. I've got another logitech keyboard like that, and I hate it. I've decided to reject all fancy keyboards now, and switch to a corded standard design. Possibly a cherry one, but I need to give one a whirl IRL.

It's not just a logitech thing, MS do that too. I have an old MS bluetooth keyboard with the exact same Home/End/PgUp/PgDn/Del cluster. Once you get used to it its grand, but its a sod if you have to revert to a standard layout again

My main logitech wired keyboard does the same.

 

[editor]

im still waitinf for this to become affordable and less vapour warey.

You'll have a looooooooooooooooooong wait for that near-vapourware to appear.

 

[dogmatique]

How about this monstrosity:

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/11/19/wolfkings-baffling-w.html

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

How about this monstrosity:

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/11/19/wolfkings-baffling-w.html

I like that

 

[Structaural]

How about this monstrosity:

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/11/19/wolfkings-baffling-w.html

I saw that yesterday - specifically for First Person shooters isn't it?

 

[kained&able]

You'll have a looooooooooooooooooong wait for that near-vapourware to appear.

duuno the pre orders are done. The three key one is out allready it shouldn't be too long. I ahve allready been waiting for this for 4/5 years!!!!

dave

 

[Pie 1]

Yeah I hate the new Mac one

I love it!

a/
I'm a heavy fingered typing fuckwit so the keys are much better for me.
b/
Crumbs and other assorted food stuffs consumed and dribbled whilst using Urban now simply fall off with a little tilt
c/
Beverage sprays over the keyboard (also common problen associated with Urban) are virtually wipe clean now
d/
I no longer have to extract half the cat out of the damn thing every week.

 

[Structaural]

I love it!

a/
I'm a heavy fingered typing fuckwit so the keys are much better for me.
b/
Crumbs and other assorted food stuffs consumed and dribbled whilst using Urban now simply fall off with a little tilt
c/
Beverage sprays over the keyboard (also common problen associated with Urban) are virtually wipe clean now
d/
I no longer have to extract half the cat out of the damn thing every week.

Interesting - how do touch-typers fare I wonder?
There's a version of it on my gfs MacBook but I don't like it much.

 

[Ned Pointsman]

I've got one as well, have you got the air mouse too ?

The typing action is ace, I went back to an old style keyboard after using it for a few days, it was awful, like driving a 1970's cortina after spending a week in a Ferrari.

 

[Firky]

I have a cherry industry keyboard, cost me about £60 6 years ago and its the muts nuts. Has survived coffee, wine, being dropped, and has accumlated much weed, baccy and cat hair in its life - yet it still goes. Ugly as sin and loud but it has a numeral keypad! I couldn't use a computer without one... annoys me not having one on my laptop. Can take up to a 100,000,000 key strokes

Quality over design

 

[ymu]

I couldn't use a computer without one... annoys me not having one on my laptop.

Fuckin' difficult to find a 17" laptop with a full-sized keyboard in it too - all that pointlessly wasted space. I'm just replacing mine and the only ones which also come with XP Pro and not bloody Vista were one model from HP (not available in the UK until next year) and an Acer. Toshiba don't do any without Vista and Dell tried to claim that noone is doing full-sized keyboards on a laptop...

/irrelevant rant

 

[ska invita]

One beaut of a review model in the house!

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/EN,CRID=2166,CONTENTID=10717

And it lights up!

whats the round thing in the corner?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

whats the round thing in the corner?

I'm taking a wild guess. Mouse?

 

[untethered]

F-' difficult to find a 17" laptop with a full-sized keyboard in it too - all that pointlessly wasted space. I'm just replacing mine and the only ones which also come with XP Pro and not bloody Vista were one model from HP (not available in the UK until next year) and an Acer. Toshiba don't do any without Vista and Dell tried to claim that noone is doing full-sized keyboards on a laptop...

I've got an Acer 9300. It's a 17" laptop with a numeric keypad, which I assume is what you mean by a full-sized keyboard.

It came with Vista and isn't that wonderful.

Personally I'd happily trade the numeric keypad for a conventional Home/End, PageUp/PageDown and cursor cluster.

 

[ymu]

I've got an Acer 9300. It's a 17" laptop with a numeric keypad, which I assume is what you mean by a full-sized keyboard.

It came with Vista and isn't that wonderful.

Personally I'd happily trade the numeric keypad for a conventional Home/End, PageUp/PageDown and cursor cluster.

I ain't getting anything with Vista on it. HP and Acer are the only two with the key ingredients all together (that I can find) and HP have discontinued the Pavilion nx9420 before having the Compaq 8710p in stock mad, so it'll probably be http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Acer_TravelMate_5624WSMi_LX.TGU06.005/version.asp

It'll be at least a month and +£400 to get the Compaq 8710p and I'm not sure it's worth it.

(Does it have 2GB RAM? Vista is shit with less than 2GB apparently)

 

[Kid_Eternity]

, and agreed. SHITCOCKS!

Yep agree also, I fucking hate those.

 

[editor]

I'm taking a wild guess. Mouse?

Vertical/horizontal scroller. It glows a way cool orange when you use it and then fades. Neat as fuck.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Vertical/horizontal scroller. It glows a way cool orange when you use it and then fades. Neat as fuck.

Oh Where's the mouse then or is that not built in?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

One-line return key = SHITCOCKS

Very, and where is the number pad on the right? I love those.

 

[tarannau]

Interesting - how do touch-typers fare I wonder?
There's a version of it on my gfs MacBook but I don't like it much.

I'm actually with pie on this one - I think it's a nice keyboard. There again I wasn't a huge fan of the clacky old mac keyboards to be fair.

It's fine for touch typing, especially for a club fingered numbnut like me, but I reckon I'm marginally less accurate on it if I'm honest, but with the trade off of noise and cleaniness I'm happy. I've been typing on the old style keyboards for much longer as well

Much better, with its low profile, for ergonomics as well. Less wrist angle, better for us carpal tunnel and RSi types - none of those ugly wrist rests here

 

[editor]

Where's the mouse then or is that not built in?

It's attached to your computer, as usual. I've got sent a cool one of them too. With lights! And loadsa buttons!

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I'm actually with pie on this one - I think it's a nice keyboard. There again I wasn't a huge fan of the clacky old mac keyboards to be fair.

It's fine for touch typing, especially for a club fingered numbnut like me, but I reckon I'm marginally less accurate on it if I'm honest, but with the trade off of noise and cleaniness I'm happy. I've been typing on the old style keyboards for much longer as well

Much better, with its low profile, for ergonomics as well. Less wrist angle, better for us carpal tunnel and RSi types - none of those ugly wrist rests here

As I said on another thread I think it's the best keyboard I've ever had, and I'm a touch typer. It's certainly the _cleanest_ keyboard I've ever had.

I don't really go for extra buttons and sliders, I have a Microsoft Media Keyboard thing with loads of that stuff that I never use, though I do like a keyboard volume control.

 

[Firky]

Fuckin' difficult to find a 17" laptop with a full-sized keyboard in it too - all that pointlessly wasted space. I'm just replacing mine and the only ones which also come with XP Pro and not bloody Vista were one model from HP (not available in the UK until next year) and an Acer. Toshiba don't do any without Vista and Dell tried to claim that noone is doing full-sized keyboards on a laptop...

/irrelevant rant

Dell don't have talk some shite. Have you tried www.laptopsdirect.co.uk? I have found them very good to deal with.

 

[Crispy]

Holy crap. I didnt even notice it has no numpad. extra SHITCOCK points. Numpad is ESSENTIAL, even more so than two-line return

 

[Pie 1]

I wasn't a huge fan of the clacky old mac keyboards to be fair.

They were utter dogshit, to be fair.