[geeks] "shallow" keyboards

[Phil Stracchino]

On 04/11/11 10:48, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> So I bought a cheap Win7 desktop ($400) and set it up (needed Win7,
> don't ask).
> 
> My fingers feel like they are driving on black ice with this shallow
> keyboard - what gives?  What happened to real keys that have a cupped
> depression in the middle of each key?

You are discovering, I believe, that when you buy a cheap package-bundle
desktop, every component is supplied by the lowest bidder.  IMHO an
awful lot of the low-end keyboards on the market are ergonomic and
functional atrocities.  My first and most visible marker to avoid any
keyboard is if it has one of those gigantic two-row-deep Enter keys
apparently intended for people who type via the forehead-smash method.


THAG HAVE WORDS IN HEAD.
THAG BASH HEAD ON THING WITH LETTERS ON.  MAYBE WORDS COME OUT.


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