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Originally Posted by Ekaros
Personaly I think I like my Filco with MX Brown the best for general board. On other switches MX black felt too strong, but I have to look at that once I get my next board with them, modified my last one MX Reds. MX Clears are somewhat too heavy for my preference. Buckling Spring that is old IBM is very nice.
There is very few ergonomic boards with MX switches.
For absolute most lasting legends:
On other hand keycaps are replaceable and you can get used sets of caps which have legends which are in different coloured plastic entirely. These are know as doubleshot, they are somewhat rare, but they are the best tech out there. For lesser lasting there is also dye sublimation printed caps.
I have no idea about this: http://www.trulyergonomic.com/store/index.php atleast partly ergonomic keyboard.
Then if you are ready to put money and effort into it there is always the more weird stuff like Datahands... Along the lines of not cheap options are IBM M15, split boards, buckling springs, but not cheap...
Not that I'm a writer, but keyboard enthusiast. |
Hi! Thanks for all the suggestions, seriously.
I'm not a writer; I own an ebook-conversion company. We have an extremely heavy email burden, both from prospective clients and clients in process. We do ~9K emails/month. And we answer every single one, that "we" being me, my assistant Indy and our Production mgr., Len. It's a lot of emails. It's ~100 mails/day/person, although the distribution doesn't quite work out that way. It's a lot--a
lot--of typing, even using some macros and Digital HotKey to answer as much as we can. (One of the reasons I'm
not writing is because my hands are too shot at the end of the day to even think about trying to do 1,000 words!
)
So, yeah...I eat me some keyboards. I'll look into replacing the caps, but IIRC, I couldn't use those particular caps on this keyboard (the Logitech) which does have a shape and a heelrest that I like. But...I'm at the "I'll try anything" stage, as this last set of stick-ons are dying, and the process of scraping them off and replacing them is fairly tedious. OR, I can buy another one new, I suppose. And, as I said, I lose the "home" of f and j when I do that, which makes me have a higher error rate, more retyping...etc. ;-)
Thanks!
Hitch