Keyboard Brands. Some advice please.

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Hak Foo

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Dissenting opinion:

Go to your local second-hand shop.

Find an IBM 'Model M' keyboard. It will weigh about as much as a small laptop and be twice as durable. You'll probably spend like a pound for the privelege.

You can knock them down very completely, clean them out, and reassemble them, and they'll last you *forever*. I'm typing on one. I bought it used. It was made in 1992. The one I use at work was made in 1993. Both get plenty of use and still endure.

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oCYBERDOGo

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I would have to say that no two keyboards are made the same. I find that I have to test out the keyboard before I buy it. I have found that my typing speeds are definetly influenced by the keyboard. As far as the mouse goes I have owned at one time or another meeces from both Microsoft & Logitech and now I settled on a Logitech Revolution.

Personal preference... it's up to you.

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Been using a Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000 for about a month now and I love it. The motion of the keys is firm, not "squishy" like some, the curve helps greatly with arm/hand positioning, it's all black so it fits in great with the rest of my computer stuff, and it's got the slim laptop-style keys which feel so much better than normal keys to me.

I love it.

Before this, I had an i-rocks, BenQ, Logitech, you name it. I liked them all for a while, but this one is absolutely perfect.

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Acksaw

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I can't believe nobody has suggested "Cherry" they make keyboards and stuff for the public sector and they have to stand up to some pretty stupid kids! The keys are so nice to type on, they are quiet, tactile and the actualy keyboard *feels* quality.

They make an ultra flat keyboard if you like them, I don't but it's an option:

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo...roductID=491960

or your more standard keyboard, with a few sensibly placed mutlimedia keys:

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo...roductID=175498

As the description says, it can take a cup of coffee and roll on.

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p858snake

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Get a logitech one - everything they make is brilliant quality.

Yes, i would have to agree with you there, but i hate their mouses they also seem to use to too many batteries for me (on my old cordless i was changing them like every 2 weeks)

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+shift. MVC

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this is my favourite ever keyboard (so far) :D

All the computers are my University have those =\

I think they're a bit too loud for my liking.

Edit: :| 1337 posts, apparently I get max stars + j00 si teh L337 status... :D

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PGHammer

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Yeah good to type on definitely.

But not very good for staying up late playing video games on your computer such that your parents can't hear your keyboard sounds :p

I have a pair of Microsoft keyboards (Internet Keyboard and the original Natural Keyboard Elite) and they have held up through *years* of use and outright abuse. I've used the pair so much I'm literally wearing the letters off the keys. (However, the keys otherwise are holding up very well.) The NKE is, in fact, twelve years old (and used primarily for PCs that come in for work and as a backup/spare). Given the solidness of their keyboards (and even their mice; I have had ONE Microsoft mouse wear out, and that was a cord failure), their likely replacement will also be from Microsoft.

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