Ergonomic keyboards
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Performance MX. I liked Revolution more, but I wore out the wheel button, and they weren't available anymore.
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I got the MS 4000 Natural today. Limited experience, but my wrists have not hurt yet so I am calling it a win. One annoyance though, the spacebar serves both sides so it is perpendicular in travel to my desktop, but my wrists are canted out, so I have been missing spaces on as I am pushing it on an angle. I have also found bad flaws in my typing, like pressing the "B" key with my right hand. The split keyboard will help with that long-term. That is my fault of course.
I like it so far. It is not as "squishy" as the one in the store, so far. My wrists and forearms are not hurting, so even if the keys were like a sponge I would keep it. It is also going to help correct some of my bad typing habits. I am going to order another one for my Linux desktop, so if you are looking for a recommendation, there it is.
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Meanwhile I picked up the MS Sculpt keyboard. It's more of a limited travel, laptopy keyboard, so if that's not your thing you'll want to skip it from the get-go. The main problem I have with it is the lack of a gap to the right of enter/right shift/backspace/etc. where a full-sized keyboard has a little space; that's throwing off my accuracy when hitting keys that would normally be easy. Adding to the difficulty is that ctrl doesn't extend all the way to the right.
But the keys themselves seem OK assuming you know the style. I'm not thrilled about the keyboard, but like I said, what I think I want isn't really on the market.
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I have no use for an Ergonomic keyboard. I don't even know anybody who lives in Ergonomia.
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Also, the function keys on the Sculpt are shit.
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I recently bought a Corsair K70, which appears to use Red switches. I love it. But only my right wrist ever hurts from heavy computer use, which means I can only blame my mouse. I recently got a Corsair mouse as well, but have been considering one of those dumb looking Vertical mice.
I'm at Intel, and they have this display near the cafeteria with a number of ergo items. The most hilarious is the Joystick mouse, which LOOKS like a joystick, but doesn't tilt. No, you slide the base and all! But that vertical mouse feels fairly good, and the change in angle might help my posture in a way that nothing else can.
