Too Much To Dream

Wowsers. That sure beats the crappy 10 buck keyboard that replaced my last nice one. It even beats the nice keyboard, which unfortunately wasn't up to having a bottle of wine spilled on it.

$24.99 at Compusa. (Plus tax, it was $26.something.) Not too bad. The keys aren't all crammed together, and the backspace key is nice and large, and the shift key doesn't stick. There's also all these buttons and things that do stuff, but mainly I grabbed it because the keys had the best "feel." Also it comes with a wristrest. ;)

wow..very nice..and its wireless, yes?

wireless is very cool.

i only have one requirement for a good keyboard and it isnt the number of shortcut keys present...its how well the keys respond when i type. they must be firm but not stiff, pliant but not squishy.

have you tried one of those "natural" keyboards? ive thought about it but cant bring myself to give up the ole tradional style...

Nope, it's not wireless. I had no particular use for a wireless keyboard at this time, and they were more expensive anyway. I hate the natural keyboard. I can never find the keys on them, and that hump in the middle freaks me out.

I'm reasonably satisfied with my $10 replacement keyboard from Wal-mart. I looked a couple of others but I picked this one not mainly for the price but because it had the fewest extra keys. It does have three that confuse me: Power, Sleep and Wake. Why can't someone just make a plain good quality keyboard?

I had a keyboard like that. Those buttons never worked properly, and I finally broke the spacebar on it (long story). This one does have a lot of bells and whistles, but they do seem to work -- and it was the only one with nice big, widely-spaced keys that was under fifty bucks.

Backspace?

You make typing errorers? :)

All the time. And the other keyboard has this weensy backspace key that was smaller than the regular letter ones -- it was like typing on a laptop. If I wanted to do that, I'd just get a laptop.

For double secret bonus points, make the transition from QWERTY to the Dvorak layout.

No way. It took me (mmmpphhh) years to finally learn QWERTY. I am too old to learn an entirely new keyboard layout. And lazy.

The thing with natural keyboards is that they force you to type correctly. Before I got one I always used the wrong fingers for b/n/g/h/t/y. Now I don't, and I actually type about 10-15 WPM faster than I used to as a result, even when back on "normal" keyboards.

Oh I've used them, and all my friends who use them swear by them. But I also held out until the last minute on getting an answering machine, a cell phone, etc... I am running out of inventions to hold out against. A girl's gotta do something...