Vernon on 1/8/2010 at 02:40
Get a Model M. Durrr
ZylonBane on 1/8/2010 at 04:00
You fail reading.
Enchantermon on 1/8/2010 at 04:03
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
I'd probably be fine with the $10 Kensington keyboard I picked up a few days ago, but it lays very flat, even with the little legs flipped out.
You could buy some little rubber feet to prop up the legs to the height of your liking. :)
Not very stylish, but beats the heck out of $135. :erg:
Trance on 1/8/2010 at 18:56
Does anyone know what might cause my numpad Enter key to become my NumLock key? The actual NumLock key does nothing that I can determine, and NumLock is turned on and off by numpad Enter instead. The weird thing is that it hasn't stopped functioning as numpad Enter either.
ZylonBane on 1/8/2010 at 20:19
Quote Posted by Enchantermon
You could buy some little rubber feet to prop up the legs to the height of your liking. :)
Not very stylish, but beats the heck out of $135. :erg:
Then the direction of key travel would be at an angle. Nooooooo.
Enchantermon on 2/8/2010 at 05:14
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
Then the direction of key travel would be at an angle. Nooooooo.
Then apply more rubber feet to the opposite end of the keyboard to flatten it out. :)
Or forget the feet and set a book underneath it.
lost_soul on 2/8/2010 at 23:36
Just my thoughts... 7 years ago, I purchased a Logitech keyboard. It is actually the one you see in the Counter-Strike:Source office level. :) A year ago, I purchased another cheap $15 keyboard for another PC and I actually prefer it to this more expensive one. The cheaper one is smaller, lighter, and I don't have to press a function button to use the f- keys after every system boot!
june gloom on 3/8/2010 at 07:47
Quote Posted by lost_soul
Counter-Strike:Source office level
How would
you know? I thought you shunned Steam and all the other agents of digital oppression.
Nameless Voice on 7/8/2010 at 01:23
I've been (very lazily) looking to buy a new keyboard myself.
I used to have an old Digital keyboard, nothing fancy, it was just plain and it worked, but unfortunately it died a few months ago.
Since then, I've been using this cheap wireless Medeon keyboard that someone gave me years ago, and while the keyboard itself is fine, it only has 3-key rollover, which I hate. But I've been too lazy to find a good replacement keyboard that fits what I want.
I'm looking for an old, traditional style UK keyboard layout with the double-size enter key, large shift on the right, and none of the keys moved out of their proper places. No clumped up smart keys where other keys are supposed to go, no key to turn off the computer when I hit Break to open system properties, no weird "turbo" keys instead of the shift key, etc.
I also want a decent amount of rollover. At the very least, it needs to be able to press 4 keys simultaneously. Having to use AltGr to use keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F11 is seriously getting old.
I don't care about multimedia keys, as I never use them, and I'd actually prefer a keyboard that isn't too "tall" (as most multimedia keyboards are, to house their extra keys above the function keys).
I don't really care about the colour so long as it's functional. I don't like excessively "clicky" keyboard, though.
Namdrol on 7/8/2010 at 23:17
I got myself a Saitek Eclipse II a few months ago and am very happy with it.
It's very quiet with a good solid action to the keys.
The main reason I chose it though was because it's backlit, (for playing Thief in a dark room).
It does have a couple of multimedia keys though but they are discretely tucked away in a top corner. (the eclipse III is festooned with em but it's very much a different beast.
(
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=KB-019-SK&tool=3) Here's a bunch of user reviews. (It was about $70 a few years ago and is now around 40)
Inline Image:
http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/13/0,1425,sz=1&i=135800,00.jpgedit: Actually my version has a large enter key, not the small one shown above.
