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Favorite keyboard, anyone? - Looking2Buy

Posted: Feb 22, 2011

I'm looking at everything from old IBM clackers to Kinesis to Logitech to those funky as all get-out flat rubber keyboards a poster below mentioned.

Input anyone as to why a certain keyboard is your fave?

microsoft soft curve - painful hands

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The regular keyboards give me really painful hands, arms, shoulders, neck, etc. The big curved egonomic keyboards, I have just never been able to get into the groove and use them efficiently but the microsoft soft curve took a little adjustment but now would never use anything else!

Ill check into that one but - Looking2Buy

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I'm still hoping that someone posts about those rubber flexible ones LOL! I just can't comprehend quite how those work and I'd like to have a "hands on" opinion of what they're like.

I'm going to google image the MS soft curve and see how it looks...Thanks so much for the tip!

Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 - CrankyOldBroadOnTheBeach

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The curve is just gentle enough that there was really no adjustment to be made to get used to it, but it puts my wrists in an absolutely neutral position--and then I've got a beanbag wrist rest that conforms to any shape, which puts my wrists into neutral in the up-and-down plane.

Best of all... this keyboard is really cheap. I'm hard on keyboards, and this is my second one.

Where did you get yours? - Zville MT

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Staples, Office Depot, or somewhere online?

Think I got one at Office Depot, and another online. - CrankyOldBroadOnTheBeach

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Nm

Thanks for the tip, CrankyOldBroad... - Looking2Buy

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Wow Ebay has a ton of these and they are cheap (found one for $17.19, not bad at all). I have a ginormous Microsoft ergo keyboard, but it's not this "comfort curve" or "gentle curve." It's a big monster with about a 3 inch wrist rest built onto it and the angle is anything but gentle or smooth, LOL! I may give this one a try at that price.

Thanks again!

I've gotten brand-new ones for under $20 - CrankyOldBroadOnTheBeach

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Which I feel a lot better about than buying used, unless what the e-bay vendors are offering ARE new. I think I got the first one at Office Depot, which meant I could take it right back if I didn't like it, and after I killed that one, I got the second one online, maybe from Dell, but I did some comparison-shopping and grabbed the cheapest one.

The beanbag wrist rest came from Office Depot as well, and it's a lifesaver. It was pretty cheap too; don't remember the price, but it wasn't a lot.

Favorite keyboard - Zville MT

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Used to have a Microsoft Digital Media Pro Keyboard - it was fabulous! After eight years of pounding by me, it gave up the ghost. I looked around for a new one, but couldn't find one and I haven't been able to find a keyboard that I like as much since then.

pro keyboard - like this

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http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=211260&prodlist=jellyfish
this is a microsoft digital media pro

Thank you for this link! - Zville MT

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I'm ordering one tonight - I can't believe the price on it! The Logitech keyboard I've been using is junk, but it was all I could afford when I needed a new one.

Thanks again! You made my day ;)

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