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Affordable, Compact Keyboards?
green pizza asks: "I'm in charge of building a lab of internet kiosk-style PCs for my local library. We have already settled on locally built Mini-PCs and will be netbooting the machines into a simplified Linux environment based heavily on JWZ's experiences in this area. We're cramped for space and luckily have been donated plenty of 15" LCDs. The only remaining issue has been keyboards. A supply of generic $5 keyboards would almost work, but we're already short on table space. I would really like to use low profile keyboards, as we have no need for a numeric keypad, F-keys, or media/shortcut keys. The Happy Hacking Keyboard series is almost perfect, but its build quality is overkill and the price is way beyond the $25 or so we'd like to spend. Anyone know of a bargain Google/Froogle is overlooking?"
Don't do it just cause you think they're cool!
We did it for a conference series for medical workers, and there was much complaining... I got chewed out for this! The mini-keyboards have too little throw, reduced sized keys and don't last. Go full sized. After the age of 35-40, vision decays. Waists expand. Asses sag. Fingers stop flying with kung-fu accuracy. The brain becomes full and no longer presents a blank sheet of paper with each new concept. Soon, Decay sets in.
You stop going out, and go to the library for a thrilling internet session! Ack! Those tiny keys!