The arrows are weird and the less-than-normal function keys are suboptimal (and I've used these keyboards long enough to run into some very rare firmware quirks

The arrows are weird and the less-than-normal function keys are suboptimal (and I've used these keyboards long enough to run into some very rare firmware quirks and odd choices made by the maker). However, since everything else is so AWESOME - the hand position, being able to do CTRL+ALT with one thumb while keeping all the fingers in normal position and being able to map the other two mod keys to ALT, META, and then CapsLock to Hyper (for window management only, in my case)... oooh, this keyboard rocks for most things, including coding and gaming (assuming the game supports changing your keybindings to optimal keys - WoW does, for example). I think I have four of them, and my girlfriend prefers hers to normal keyboards. They've totally eliminated my incipient RSI. (rave, rave, rave). However, I do wish they'd fix the little issues that remain in some future board, so I don't have to keep musing over whether to buy a Maltron to compare.