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Ask HN: What is your favorite keyboard?
Hey everyone,
Keyboards are our main tool (besides the computer) when doing our daily work. As such, its quite normal to develop a strong preference over time. My personal favorite is the Leopold FC660C which I bought in Japan while visiting.
What are your favorites? It can be standard, mechanical, or even ergonomic models.
Cheers!
- approxim8ion 6y agoCheapest one I can find from a decent brand. Simply because I can't afford the ones I might actually like to use. At $99ish though, the Anne Pro 2 seems like a really decent choice.
- h2odragon 6y agoOld layout IBM model M. In 1996, I got to clean out an elementary school's "IT department" as they were replacing everything, which included a couple dozen M keyboards made from '88 to '92. I spent some time refurbishing them and used them until 2020; never worrying about adapting to new key layouts. (A skin condition causes me to shed hand skin prodigiously, I tried a logitech "fancy" $250 kb last year in between the old and new model M's; it lasted 3 months before keys stopped actuating)
- lprd 6y agoI would love to get my hands on one of those! I assume you have to use some sort of adapter to make the USB connection?
- h2odragon 6y agoActually i used the PS/2 connectors on the old ones; and have replaced that logitech with a New Model M with USB already on it. https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/UB4041A https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/UB4041A This one is 9 months old and still going strong. Haven't even worn any keycaps blank.
- nikau 6y agoSome model Ms have high power consumption, there is a mod to replace a resistor which reduces it. This can upset some adapters and PCs. I used one with a ps2->usb adapter I bought about 10 years ago, I recall I had to do some research to find one that's known to work without issues. This is the adapter I have, looks like its no longer sold: https://www.clickykeyboards.com/product/ps-2-to-usb-adapter-converter-for-keyboards-blue-cube/ https://www.clickykeyboards.com/product/ps-2-to-usb-adapter-...
- SubGenius 6y agoI had an accident that left me with some pretty nasty nerve damage on my left hand. It's essentially a non-stop tingling/buzzing sensation with intermittent electric-shock like pinching. I switched to a Keynesian Advantage 2 late last year and it's been a tremendous help for dealing with pain. It took a while to get used to though. It was probably a good thing too because I always knew how to touch-type but I don't think I'd ever learnt it in a systematic way, just sort of pickedi up as a kid in the 90s. This time around I put in a lot more thought about finger placement etc. The Kinesis has key remapping, macros and a whole lot of features I'm probably not using. It's great. I still need a daily stretching session and stress-ball use to keep my hands feeling lose and healthy, but the Keynesis has reduced my hand pains quite significantly.
- du_bing 6y agoHHKB Hybrid Type-s Black Blank Keycaps, this is good.