<div dir="ltr">2008/9/1 Farran <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fazzy.baboon@ntlworld.com">fazzy.baboon@ntlworld.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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hi all <img alt=":D" align="middle" border="0"><br>
has anyone got any suggestions for a new keyboard? I've got a horrendously old one, and i'm looking to replace it. i know a lot of shortcut buttons, for example, don't always work, and i don't know which keyboards are good anyway, so i was wondering if anybody could help me?<br>
I stumbled across Cherry a while ago with their Linux keyboard. having a little difficulty finding the page where they sell it, but i've seen a couple of pages where people said they were having trouble with it. is it any good?<br>
<br><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"></table></div></blockquote><div><br>I've been using a coouple of Lenovo "ThinkPlus Preferred"s (readily available on Amazon) for that last 18 months or so .They're under £20.00 each, but I've yet to experience a "sticky" key on either of them (unlike virtually every MS keyboard I've owned, and I've owned most of them). Their mechanical action can't rival that of the old pre-membrane IBM monsters, and they have become a little "clattery" (in both a mechanical and aural sense), but crucially, I can hit any key from any angle without that nagging concern that it's going to "jam" if I come in from too shallow an angle (Microsoft Natural Keyboard - go the the back of the class!). The action of each key is predictable and there's a decent amount of key travle and tactile feedback, especially by today's standards. Oh, and they come with a detachable wrist-rest, USB cable and in a nice shade of anti-kitchenware black.<br>
<br>Summary: they become a little clattery with use, but this doesn't affect their fundamental mechanical action and they are the cheapest "acceptable-quality" keyboards I've ever used. <br><br>Roger<br>
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