I developed tendinitis in my typin' fingers a coupla years ago. The hardest thing was not using the computer for the two weeks or so it took to heal. Luckily I was able to do pencil n' paper stuff at my job and didn't have to miss much work. Recovery has never come completely -- once that scar tissue forms you never completely recover. So no I wear support gloves and pay attention to ergonomics. If your hands bother you, you may want to check out Hand-Eze gloves from Dome Publishing. I'm willing to plug them because aside from ibruprophen, they helped me the most and I still wear 'em every day when I type...
Cyrix used to have this nifty thing called PR (performance rating or processor rating or somesuch). Their marketingspeak was that a Cyrix PR-200 would outperform a Pentium class chip running at 200 MHz. I bought that line. But of course their PR system does not take into account the dismal performance of their FPU, particularly for games, and so I found my spankin' new PR200 can barely achieve speeds of a similarly equipped Pentium 133MHz. MHz does have its problems, but so far every example I've seen of "alternate ratings" just turn out to be a lot of marketingspeak.
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I developed tendinitis in my typin' fingers a coupla years ago. The hardest thing was not using the computer for the two weeks or so it took to heal. Luckily I was able to do pencil n' paper stuff at my job and didn't have to miss much work. Recovery has never come completely -- once that scar tissue forms you never completely recover. So no I wear support gloves and pay attention to ergonomics. If your hands bother you, you may want to check out Hand-Eze gloves from Dome Publishing. I'm willing to plug them because aside from ibruprophen, they helped me the most and I still wear 'em every day when I type...
Cyrix used to have this nifty thing called PR (performance rating or processor rating or somesuch). Their marketingspeak was that a Cyrix PR-200 would outperform a Pentium class chip running at 200 MHz. I bought that line. But of course their PR system does not take into account the dismal performance of their FPU, particularly for games, and so I found my spankin' new PR200 can barely achieve speeds of a similarly equipped Pentium 133MHz. MHz does have its problems, but so far every example I've seen of "alternate ratings" just turn out to be a lot of marketingspeak.