Give the Kinesis a good try, it has saved my programming career. 4 years ago, by friday afternoon my hands were in excrusiating pain, that barely went away by monday. I had occasional shooting pains up my arm.
After 2 months using the Kinesis keyboard, I was back to the physical state I had been in 2 years before that. Now, I have no problems, and can even lift up my 2 kids without wincing.
The control key positions are excellent (I'm an emacs user). A 2 handed control sequence is better for your hands than stretching one hand to make the entire key combo (I have long fingers, but the Control-T combo still hurts me if I do it one handed on a normal keyboard.)
And having it still be qwerty, means I can use someone else's computer (or my laptop) with little or no slowdown in typing speed.
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Give the Kinesis a good try, it has saved my programming career. 4 years ago, by friday afternoon my hands were in excrusiating pain, that barely went away by monday. I had occasional shooting pains up my arm.
After 2 months using the Kinesis keyboard, I was back to the physical state I had been in 2 years before that. Now, I have no problems, and can even lift up my 2 kids without wincing.
The control key positions are excellent (I'm an emacs user). A 2 handed control sequence is better for your hands than stretching one hand to make the entire key combo (I have long fingers, but the Control-T combo still hurts me if I do it one handed on a normal keyboard.)
And having it still be qwerty, means I can use someone else's computer (or my laptop) with little or no slowdown in typing speed.
Cheers,
Sid