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Dunno. Something about the key travel and resistance suits me. I'm talking about this one from 2007/2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_keyboards#/media/F

Dunno. Something about the key travel and resistance suits me. I'm talking about this one from 2007/2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_keyboards#/media/File:Apple_iMac_Keyboard_A1243.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_keyboards#/media/File:Ap... Other slim one I can work daily with is Logitech K750 solar first gen, it's reasonably crisp and firm. Later iterations are mushy as hell, feels like typing on fresh dough. But that first gen one is 12 years old and still going strong, solar panels are still working, it's still holding charge. I love when I find something that I can keep for decades.

jmyeet 5y ago
People seem to refer to this era of keyboard as the chiclet keyboard. MBPs at the time used a very similar design before the disastrous butterfly switch where user experience was a blood sacrifice at the Johnny Ive's Altar of Thinness. I too like these keyboards, particularly the wired ones (which have a numpad), so much so that I started to hoard them when Apple stopped making them. I think I have 5 of them. 1 stopped working and it gets salvaged for keycaps now.
- brailsafe 5y ago
  Ya this is the keyboard I thought of as chiclet, but forgot that it's also old af now
mattlondon 5y ago
That one is also one of my favourites too. I have fond that this from Cherry (not mechanical, just made by cherry) is decent too: https://www.cherry.co.uk/cherry-kc-6000-slim-for-mac.html https://www.cherry.co.uk/cherry-kc-6000-slim-for-mac.html There is something about that chiclet style that just works so well for my hands and fingers. Using a "normal" keyboard now is super fatigue inducing as you need to move your fingers so much compared to a chiclet one like this where your fingers just glide over the keys.
brailsafe 5y ago
Oh, ya that's the keyboard I like actually, forgot it's also quite old now. The one I thought you were referring to, which seemed to me more like most mechanical keyboards in terms of their keydepth, would be this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_keyboards#/media/File:Apple_Pro_Keyboard_(open_top).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_keyboards#/media/File:Ap... I really like the Sculpt, because it has roughly the same chiclet style depth, while also being 10-keyless, wireless, reverse-tilting, and divided in a way that I find comfortable. Now that I've been typing on it so long though, I find that typing on any keyboard that's straight is just so subpar. Taika Waititi communicated this best, because your shoulders have to bend inward and your hands outward https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/9/21130967/oscars-taika-waititi-apple-butterfly-keyboards-jojo-rabbit-academy-award-press-room https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/9/21130967/oscars-taika-wait...

jmyeet 5y ago

People seem to refer to this era of keyboard as the chiclet keyboard. MBPs at the time used a very similar design before the disastrous butterfly switch where user experience was a blood sacrifice at the Johnny Ive's Altar of Thinness. I too like these keyboards, particularly the wired ones (which have a numpad), so much so that I started to hoard them when Apple stopped making them. I think I have 5 of them. 1 stopped working and it gets salvaged for keycaps now.

brailsafe 5y ago
Ya this is the keyboard I thought of as chiclet, but forgot that it's also old af now

mattlondon 5y ago

That one is also one of my favourites too. I have fond that this from Cherry (not mechanical, just made by cherry) is decent too: https://www.cherry.co.uk/cherry-kc-6000-slim-for-mac.html https://www.cherry.co.uk/cherry-kc-6000-slim-for-mac.html There is something about that chiclet style that just works so well for my hands and fingers. Using a "normal" keyboard now is super fatigue inducing as you need to move your fingers so much compared to a chiclet one like this where your fingers just glide over the keys.

brailsafe 5y ago

Oh, ya that's the keyboard I like actually, forgot it's also quite old now. The one I thought you were referring to, which seemed to me more like most mechanical keyboards in terms of their keydepth, would be this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_keyboards#/media/File:Apple_Pro_Keyboard_(open_top).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_keyboards#/media/File:Ap... I really like the Sculpt, because it has roughly the same chiclet style depth, while also being 10-keyless, wireless, reverse-tilting, and divided in a way that I find comfortable. Now that I've been typing on it so long though, I find that typing on any keyboard that's straight is just so subpar. Taika Waititi communicated this best, because your shoulders have to bend inward and your hands outward https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/9/21130967/oscars-taika-waititi-apple-butterfly-keyboards-jojo-rabbit-academy-award-press-room https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/9/21130967/oscars-taika-wait...