For the T450, that cursor jumping is due to your palm touching the trackpad. Install the Synaptics driver for the trackpad and turn on the palmcheck setting. Problem solved.
Default win7 drivers don’t have palmcheck.
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Yeah not so much the specific laptop as all laptops.
The other option if you are using a proper mouse is you can set the touchpad to be disabled if that is present.
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“Tenkeyless” is what those are often called.
My cheap alternative that I use at home is a Nixeus Moda. It has Kailh brown switches, which are a direct clone of Cherry MX Brown, which have the feel without the loud click. I stuck extra o-rings on them anyway just to mute it some more but keep the feel. I love it.
At work I have a Logitech G710+ which is a little louder than I’d like, but I generally wear headphones to shut out all the other annoying sounds of the office anyway.
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How do you think my hands got so freakishly large? Constant Model M use, of course! And an added benefit is that everyone on conference calls knows when I’m typing!
And it has no Windows key, so most people don’t like it. 
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For me the key feature is not having to move my hand a foot away for a mouse. I want it right there where the ThinkVantage has it.
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I just did the same thing to myself. Got a Das Keyboard and then suddenly turned into an even bigger typo machine. It’s starting to come back though.
Get a new one from unicomp, same people, same factory, just a different name on it.
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Just sayin’ Rob…your life will travel on greased grooves once you get a stereo ; -)
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That’s not a mechanical keyboard. Now THIS is a mechanical keyboard
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[quote=“nixiebunny, post:55, topic:78335, full:true”]
I bought this 1914 Remington No. 10 a few months ago, to remind me what life used to be like. It really takes a bit of learning to hit the keys quickly enough that ghosting doesn’t occur.[/quote]
Our regular advice in the Typosphere is “type like the keys are hot,” that is, a sharp, quick poke with your fingers, not the languid press that our increasingly shallow keyboards favor. You need enough striking force to get the mechanisms moving, and enough quickness to get your fingers out of the way so the key doesn’t bounce back off your fingertip and cause ghosted letters. Good technique as taught in Ye Olden Days of Yore goes a long way to making me a better typist, regardless of the keyboard. I betcha that Remington can fly. I can get rolling pretty fast on the Royal when I focus on good striking instead of my usual slop-typing, and find the rhythm that the machine wants.
I miss the Model M’s we used back in the day in my early Comp Sci classes. The labs were an unholy clatter when assignments were due. But I’m not hipster enough to go for a blank-key or ombre keyboard. Not yet.
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I bought one of these for my kids on the theory that they would have trouble destroying it. 15 minutes later. I’d buy them Model Ms but those are too easily weaponized.
What century are all y’all from?
A true hacker would just kick back with one’s feet up on the desk and start muttering…
colon e shitlist
press shift o
japhroaig
d d
press shift o
j a p h r o a i g
press escape key
colon w q press enter key
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ssh root@crenquis.com
password: mypetdogsname123
rm -rf /*
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You damn kids and your efficient keyboards!
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Which one? the new one with this wheel-thingie? Is it any good? Did you notice the letters rubbing of (a common complaint)? I have an iMac and thinking about buying one.
The reason why? I had to spend the last two weeks in the office of a coworker. She has one of these weird ergonomically keyboards with a “hinge” in the middle. This keyboard is mechanical too. I’m so used to it now that I had a similar experience to Rob today when I had to use a normal “mushy” keyboard. Felt like typing on a pillow.
My fancy-shmancy wireless keyboard stopped working last year and the only backup I had was an ancient ps2 mechanical keyboard with an adapter. That was such a joy to use again that I got a modern mechanical one (with a wire) and I’ve been really happy with it.
I have this one - http://www.daskeyboard.com/model-s-professional-for-mac/
I’ve had it about 5 years and no letter rubbing. No issues at all.
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I had one of these with my infant kids and it took the full force of upchucks a couple of times and was no worse for wear. It was only good for light typing though. Squishy feedback.
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Well it’s alwsys nice to have a fresh start guess.
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My keyboards, home and office, are almost the same, including the cable wrap rot. One difference: I have the trackpoint model. Unicomp sells replacement cables for your model, unfortunately not for mine.
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