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IMHO the Kinesis Advantage is the Rolls Royce of keyboards. After having used it for over a year, I can't imagine going back to anything else. http://www.kine

IMHO the Kinesis Advantage is the Rolls Royce of keyboards. After having used it for over a year, I can't imagine going back to anything else. http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/contoured_usb.htm http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/contoured_usb.htm

holygoat 18y ago
I bought one for work. A few months later, I bought one for home.
vikram 18y ago
Yeah invested in one last year. When I was having lots of pain in my fingers and wrist. Took a couple of days to get used to it. Since then I haven't had any problems. I can't imagine working with a regular keyboard ever again. Interestingly my typing speed has gone up too.
diego 18y ago
Second that. I've had two for the past three years (one at home, one at the office). Decided to get one after a weekend of frantic hacking that left my fingers in pain. After a month using the Kinesis Advantage my fingers felt great, never going back to a regular keyboard.
mechanical_fish 18y ago
Yep, the Advantage Pro. The ultimate emacs power tool.
- cstejerean 18y ago
  I noticed I don't usually use the Emacs key bindings for navigation (C-f,b,n,p) when using my Kinesis keyboard. I use the arrow keys most of the time since they are located in such a convenient place. I really wish someone would make a laptop with a similar keyboard layout (even if it's not contoured, at least keep the split and put the useful keys within thumb reach).
cstejerean 18y ago
I love the Kinesis Advantage keyboard. It's incredibly comfortable and the in hardware customizations (key remap and macros) are awesome. It takes a couple of days to get used to it (the keys are not diagonal like in a standard keyboard, and it takes a little while for your muscle memory to adjust). By the way this will really improve your touch typing if you don't have proper form (since the keys are contoured to the shape of the hand there really is no way to type but the right way).

holygoat 18y ago

I bought one for work. A few months later, I bought one for home.

vikram 18y ago

Yeah invested in one last year. When I was having lots of pain in my fingers and wrist. Took a couple of days to get used to it. Since then I haven't had any problems. I can't imagine working with a regular keyboard ever again. Interestingly my typing speed has gone up too.

diego 18y ago

Second that. I've had two for the past three years (one at home, one at the office). Decided to get one after a weekend of frantic hacking that left my fingers in pain. After a month using the Kinesis Advantage my fingers felt great, never going back to a regular keyboard.

mechanical_fish 18y ago

Yep, the Advantage Pro. The ultimate emacs power tool.

cstejerean 18y ago
I noticed I don't usually use the Emacs key bindings for navigation (C-f,b,n,p) when using my Kinesis keyboard. I use the arrow keys most of the time since they are located in such a convenient place. I really wish someone would make a laptop with a similar keyboard layout (even if it's not contoured, at least keep the split and put the useful keys within thumb reach).

cstejerean 18y ago

I love the Kinesis Advantage keyboard. It's incredibly comfortable and the in hardware customizations (key remap and macros) are awesome. It takes a couple of days to get used to it (the keys are not diagonal like in a standard keyboard, and it takes a little while for your muscle memory to adjust). By the way this will really improve your touch typing if you don't have proper form (since the keys are contoured to the shape of the hand there really is no way to type but the right way).