On Keyboards
Posted Apr 29, 2008 in Design and Usability
Via Daring Fireball (who devoted an entire episode of his podcast to Apple keyboards), Mark Llobrera rants entertainingly about the pathetic state of keyboards in our diminished world of the Fourth Age.
I actually have a Matias Tactile Pro keyboard. I don’t use it anymore because the noise really is a bit much for a shared work environment. Plus, some of the keys (like the Return!) work very poorly. And the plastic housing is amazingly brittle and I’ve already injured myself on some of the razor-sharp shards that break off it. Catriona wondered very quickly after I bought it why I’d dropped AUS $200 on a computer keyboard. I sometimes wonder about that myself — and I’m still searching for the perfect QWERTY interface.
I’m using a Logitech, ridiculously expensive wireless bluetooth desktop. I got tired of the cord routing on my desk nearly ripping the keyboard off of my keyboard tray.
Here’s the link
Warning: FUgly urls. And why, oh why, does the main page, e.g. logitech.com, come up as http://logitech.com/? ??
That’s just stupid. And non-semantic. Way to go, cold fusion!!
Anyway, back on topic, I do like this combo, and the mouse really sold it for me, because you can click the mousewheel, and choose between a click and a freewheel mode. Haut. My only complaint is that the function key row is not standard or big enough. Oh, and the insert key is in a funky place to make for a bigger delete key.
But I do like.