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Awesome. I've been meaning to pick up a Kinesis Advantage—the combination of MX Brown switches plus ergonomic keyboard is great. I had the Freestyle2 which was
by markbao 12y ago
Awesome. I've been meaning to pick up a Kinesis Advantage—the combination of MX Brown switches plus ergonomic keyboard is great. I had the Freestyle2 which was less than great. I've been typing on Apple chicklet keyboards for years and while they're actually not that bad, they're not ergonomically sound at all.
- graublau 12y agoI think the chiclet keys are an ergonomic silver-bullet - RSI probably comes from years of us typing on deep keys in high keyboards.
- tomsthumb 12y agoChiclets are actually worse on your fingers because they shock-load your fingers when they bottom out. Mechanical keyboards are much easier on your fingers because you can feel when the key is activated, and sometimes hear it. This lets you know that you can stop pressing before the key bottoms out and there's much less force put through your fingers.
- markbao 12y agoNever thought of that—that explains a lot of the fatigue I get from typing on them for long periods of time. I know that certain Cherry MX keys do the same. Which ones don't bottom out too harshly?
- tomsthumb 12y agoYeah, the grids are much nicer. I can use the normal numbers now almost as fast as many of my friends can use a 10 key, and I never forget where symbols are for programming since everything is lined up quite nicely.