Holy mother of crap.
I don't think I can ever--ever--remember loathing a keyboard like I do this one. I've lost track of the number of hours of work I've now lost, repeatedly. Do I know WHY? NO. I DO NOT. Apparently, some random combination of keys that I occasionally hit dumps me right OUT of work I'm doing, in SAAS (Software Apps As Service, like Freshbooks, Teamwork, Desk, et al).
You cannot, for the life of you, feel the damn home keys. I called them, seething about this, and
they thought it was FUNNY, because on the older versions,
allegedly, people bitched that the bump was too sharp, and that they were cutting their damn fingers. What a load of bollocks.
I now have to LOOK, every time my fingers wander from the home keys. I don't have calluses, or anything else, on my fingers, that would have made me less able to feel the bumps than anyone else. In fact, in my fam, I'm called "The Princess" due to the Princess and the Pea tale--I'm constantly irritated by something in the sheets, or this or that.
But my overly-sensitive skin can't feel these home keys well enough to not stray. I cannot tell you--literally, cannot--how many times now in the past few weeks I've typed an entire paragraph with my fingers in the wrong keys. AACCKK! I just typed this last sentence wrong--wrong bloody keys. (I've had to turn on spellcheck.
That's how grim my typing is now.)
There's no manual. NONE. You don't know what does what. You have to sit there, like a booby, trying keystroke combos, to find out WHY you just lost an hour of work, because you got dumped out.
I will also say: if you use print-screen often, do NOT buy this keypad. I do, and I was stupid. You have to hit func+[, to get Print screen. That drives me nuts. Yes, it's a matter of retraining the muscle memory, but...
The Control keys are in odd positions. On the right-hand kb, the CTRL key is ABOVE, to the left-edge of, the space bar. And, as many of you know, there's no number pad. Not really. You can num-lock (FN+6) your way through a faux number pad on the jkl (1-2-3) uio (4-5-6) 789 (appearing as themselves) keys. I purchased a Kinesis number pad, but that drops off the USB every time the computer sleeps/hibernates. SUCH fun.
For reasons that utterly elude me, these dolts put "undo, cut, copy and paste" on the left-hand keyboard, at the left-most edge. WHY???? What the frack for?
My fondest desire now is to make a decently competent decision about a replacement (screw it, I'll just buy 4-6 keyboards instead, for the same damn amount of money, and when they wear out, toss 'em). THEN, I'm going to make a video of my deepest desire: to go out in the yard with this cursed thing and smash it to bits, then pour something inflammable on it, and LIGHT IT. I hope Matias thinks THAT is funny, too, when I put it on Youtube, Google+, Vimeo...if I plan ahead, I can take it up to the National Forest that's half a mile north of my house, and I can SHOOT IT to pieces. Now, that sounds like fun.
URGHGHG.
P.S.:
yes, it's quiet-ish. That's the one good thing. And the lettering won't wear off, before I shoot the holy motherloving s**t out of it.
Hitch