23 Nov
2007
23 Nov
'07
5:12 p.m.
On Thursday 22 November 2007 03:53, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
It isn't just the logo on the keys, though. It's the addition of
those "extra" keys to the bottom row, and the consequent resizing of the
existing alt and ctrl keys to allow them to fit, that's part of what's
messing me up with those keyboards...
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
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.