24 Nov
2007
24 Nov
'07
12:13 a.m.
On 22 Nov 2007, at 08:53, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
Yeah, I'm finding their site hard to navigate, too.
"Our corporate history stretches only
back to April, 1996, when we purchased
keyboard technology from Lexmark,
former manufacturer of IBM keyboards."
<http://www.pckeyboard.com/pdf/Co%20sheet.pdf>
They seem to avoid saying, "this is a Model M", but instead
"Customizer is the marketing name we've given to our classic IBM
style keyboards."
<http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/customizer.html>
You'll see that "buckling spring" is mentioned in the "technology"
drop-down - you can choose a quieter option instead.
Since KDE & Gnome undoubtedly offer mappings & shortcuts which make
use of the Windows key I'm surprised you can't get a penguin as a
standard option, although this seems not to have been a big seller
for Cherry (AFAICT they've discontinued this model):
<http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8233268776.html>
<http://www.easylinux.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2004/11/010-news/
tastatur_frei.png>
Stroller.
....
Of course, I've had this a few years, and perhaps IBM's (Lenovo's?)
current keyboards aren't so good, but you can still pay 100 quid
(that's c $200) for a keyboard if you want a good one. PCkeyboard.com
offer buckling-spring models which feature the Windows key and which
are "based on an award winning design, ... the same quality and crisp
tactile feedback as their IBM predecessors"; if these are really as
good as the model M, then I think there are few who would be unhappy
Hmm. They look interesting. I couldn't see anything about
buckling-spring
keyboards, but I might not have been looking hard enough. The idea
of custom
keycaps sounds good - the Windows Objectors could get alternate
logos on
their Windows keys.