“blueTooth” would be camel case (or camelCase if you want to be pedantic). “BlueTooth” is Pascal case (or PascalCase for the pedantic).
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If a keyboard has keys you can’t find, can you really say it “has” those keys?
Don’t know. Just know that this keyboard had keys I could find. Scroll lock and Print screen amongst them. Maybe it has a muffin button? Now I want a muffin button.
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I guess it depends what kind of camel?
I prefer the taper of tradition desktop keyboard keys. My laptop has similar chiclet style keys and I am not a fan. I guess it’s possible inverted dome like depressions make all the difference.
A lot of people recommend the MS ergonomic, and since that is the keyboard I’m currently using, I understand them.
But I’m still surprised nobody mentioned a true split keyboard like the ergo-dox:
I’ve been considering getting one, but they are so expensive they would eat up my entire “work from home budget” and still have me pay over a €100,- of my own money…
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Hard pass for me. I owned a logitech illuminated keyboard with ‘chiclet’ keys and such. It was great in a Jean Michelle Jarre kind of way without being a ‘gaming keyboard’ and subtly backlit without a full array of xmas lights and revolving dildos etc etc.
Untill the keys started breaking. I wasnt the only one. Turns out there was an entire cottage industry of people selling the keys on Ebay as replacements from their broken keyboards. My mech keyboard is no fancy pants thing, its built like a Boss guitar pedal and Gets The Job Done. After a heavy skirmish, you simply wash the blood and tissue away and drink from the skulls of your enemies.
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We had those at school, we used to prise them out and rearrange them for lolz. Easier on the zx81 I might add.
Well, a non-replaceable battery is a massive flaw to me, I own two K811, which I find superior to the 2015 MBP’s keys, and also superior to the old Apple Wireless Keyboard, and the battery on those is less than a week now. Just a matter of time until that will get annoying.
Also, I often take my laptop with me, and since the laptop has the fn key in the lower left corner, I would expect my external keyboard to be in the same location. Any other design is feels weird.
The wouldn’t count as a flaw, but if it had a programmable firmware, that would be so cool.
I can’t talk for @beschizza, but for me it was mostly noise. At home, my wife complained, at work my co-workers complained, and I found that I myself am less stressed when I use a more quiet keyboard. Using keyboards with less travel helped me learn how to type softly, which feels a lot better.
You can get them used on ebay for $250, and you can re-sell it if it doesn’t suit you.
$350 for your main input device is not a lot of money. Actually, most decent mechanical keyboards with a similar feature set are in that price range, a Plank or Clueboard will cost you $250 and up, and they’re both just simple keyboards.
If you type on that 4-6hrs every day, and it helps you prevent RSI and other injuries, that’s not a bad deal.
Plus you have programmable firmware, and you can exchange switches without soldering, so you can experiment until you find the ones that work best for you without all the hassle and investment this usually takes. When the switches are worn out, just pop in new ones.
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The logitech keys have a smooth depression perhaps a quarter of a millimeter deep. The ZX Spectrum+ and similar Sinclair designs had a raised circular plateau about 2mm high. The mechanisms were different too, obviously.
It does remind me a little of those designs visually, though. Would be perfect for one of those throwback computers that often pop up, should someone want to make one that it’s nice to type on.
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It has more travel than the aforementioned Apple and Microsoft models whose general styling and ergonomics it matches–but of course far less than most mechanicals. About 2.5mm. Similar to the low profile khails
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I still want the “pink everything” Razer setup.
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Vortex Tab 75 and 90
Filco Majestouch convertible 2
Filco Manila Air
Anne Pro 2
Spot the theme!
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Hinky bluetooth, poor battery life, bizarre and impossible-to-remember key combos to change machines or settings between operating systems. Once wires are removed from the equation, the mech options become much less appetizing. Filco is the best but it’s so big.
Logitech’s unifying receiver is great because it doesn’t need any OS support and works in BIOS. The receiver is an actual keyboard/mouse as far as the machine knows. I dual-boot linux but, again, linux bluetooth support is so bad on my motherboard that it’s better to leave it disabled. And the BIOS/boot thinger has no bluetooth support at all, and needs a keypress to pick OS. So I do have personal fuckery at hand that makes this particular device hit the spot.
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I will happily admit to being wrong. 2.5mm of travel is just about perfect! 
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This is my weapon of choice:
Typing away on it now. This is only my second one in 20+ years. The first one I dug out of the trash heap at Compuserve and enjoyed for a decade or more. Got rid of my RSI entirely. Once the PS/2 to USB converter stuff stopped being as reliable (windows 7 or so) I decided to get a “modern” one. It’s been great! It’s hard to believe but my current one is from 2009 and still feels like the “new” one.
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Whoa! That is a wonderful machine! I think I would prefer more control over the distance between left and right though… Doesn’t that ever bother you?
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No; I’ve gotten quite used to the spacing. The ErgoDox EZ does make me drool to try out, but I still find the Kinesis to be very comfortable.
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