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The Best Keyboards For Every Occasion

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the right-touch dept.

ThinSkin writes "ExtremeTech has written an article on the best keyboards in every category, such as gaming keyboards (macro and hybrid), media center keyboards, keyboard gamepads, and so forth. Of course, the big companies like Microsoft and Logitech dominate these lists, while smaller companies like Razer, Ideazon, and others play an important role as well."

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  1. There is only one keyboard by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 5, Funny

    The IBM Model M

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    "When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
    1. Re:There is only one keyboard by TeknoHog · · Score: 5, Funny

      What? I can't hear you from all the clickety-click.

      (Seriously though, there's only one sensible keyboard, which happens to be an IBM as well: Space Saver.)

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      Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
    2. Re:There is only one keyboard by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 5, Funny

      Model M was awesome. (Way) back in the day I thought typing code quickly was the same as being a good programmer.

      Making my keyboard sound like a machine gun convinced me that I was God's gift to high-school programmers.

    3. Re:There is only one keyboard by TeknoHog · · Score: 3, Funny

      the other people who have never used a keyboard before hunt and peck for the correct key

      ...

      However if you had a real typist on your hand it would make us look like hunt and pickers by default.

      Don't you mean "hunt and peckers"? Err, on a second thought, never mind.

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      Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
    4. Re:There is only one keyboard by pwizard2 · · Score: 3, Funny

      I like the idea of having a keyboard whose operational life is likely to exceed mine by a significant margin. Those things are practically indestructible.

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      "It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity."
  2. Re:Ahem... by Change · · Score: 3, Funny

    A one-handed chorded keyboard, of course.

  3. Re:Seriously, why model m? by PotatoFarmer · · Score: 4, Funny

    7. Can be used to club burglars into submission.

    Sure, the act of bludgeoning another person with a Model M will probably be quieter than actually typing on the damn thing, but such is the price of home security.

  4. Re:Seriously, why model m? by PotatoFarmer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, and almost forgot:

    8. Reduces instances of cat-on-keyboard syndrome. They'll either weigh too little to depress the keys, or the sound of the spacebar going off like a gunshot will probably traumatize them enough that they won't try it again.

  5. Re:Seriously, why model m? by Fex303 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I then take that keyboard, and remap the capslock key to be a second control key. After all, when was the last time you needed to use capslock? Never.

    You must lose a lot of your internet debates.