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From: Jim on 5 Jun 2010 10:23 Andy Hewitt <thewildrover(a)me.com> wrote: > > The Apple is lovely if you think the current laptop keyboards (and the > > wireless alu) are lovely. The Mattius is lovely if you like deep, > > heavy clicky (if it's the one I think it is). The Cherry I don't know, > > but my favourite keyboards by them were light clicky ones. > > I'm not so sure about the flat keys on the Apple keyboards myself. I do > use the MacBook one at times of course, but not really convinced. Of > that lot the Apple keyboard is the most expensive, and would present the > greatest risk factor. I do actually like the older white Apple > keyboards, but cleaning out the sticking keys gets tedious. I've got two of them, one for a couple of years now. Both are working fine and are a pleasure to use. These are the wired, wide ones. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: Rowland McDonnell on 5 Jun 2010 10:27 Andy Hewitt <thewildrover(a)me.com> wrote: > I'm looking at getting a new keyboard. I don't really need the wireless > anymore, and these Macally ones I got are pretty rubbish (the keys feel > like they're in the wrong pace, and it keeps doing multiple presses). > > The ones I favour are: > > Apple Aloominum extended > Matius USB 2.0 > Cherry Initial > > What say the forum? I hate the flat Apple keyboards. I've made the one I'm using now tolerable by adding stick-on rubber feet to give it a decent gradient and lift the front just barely off the desk so the whole thing can flex a bit (double-decker at the back, single at the front, two different sorts of feet, and Evostick was needed, bit of a pain, neat job now though). I learnt to type on a proper typewriter[1], you see, so if I've not got full travel keys and a proper gradient, I'm in trouble. My favourite keyboard ever was a really nice one I met on a mid 80s IBM PC - beautiful, it was. Rowland. [1] IBM Selectric; I'm hopeless with manual tripewriters. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 5 Jun 2010 10:30 Andy Hewitt <thewildrover(a)me.com> wrote: > Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: [snip] > > The Apple is lovely if you think the current laptop keyboards (and the > > wireless alu) are lovely. The Mattius is lovely if you like deep, > > heavy clicky (if it's the one I think it is). The Cherry I don't know, > > but my favourite keyboards by them were light clicky ones. > > I'm not so sure about the flat keys on the Apple keyboards myself. They work reliably well as switches, it's just that they've got such short travel that for someone like me, it hurts to type on 'em unless you've done something with the keyboard to improve its springiness. And I need the back lifted up for some gradient, for heaven's sake, surely that makes it easier for everyone, just look at human anatomy! [snip] Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: D.M. Procida on 5 Jun 2010 12:00 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > And I need the back lifted up for some gradient, for heaven's sake, > surely that makes it easier for everyone, just look at human anatomy! I like flat keyboards. Tilted ones make me feel as though I am stretching. Daniele
From: Elliott Roper on 5 Jun 2010 12:01
In article <86v4q0F5hcU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > On 2010-06-05 15:15:59 +0100, Elliott Roper said: > > > (It turned out the mini's bottom air intake slots were totally clogged > > with dust, it is fine now, and the fan is far quieter. Oops!) > > Hooray! But what did you use to clean the intake slots - a vacuum > cleaner or compressed air? Am I in the wrong thread? Compressed air? There are now little blobs of thread drift all over my keyboard? -- To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248 |