Out of the Blue [Dec 07, 2004, 09:56 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
I just need to vent a little here. I ruined a keyboard with a coffee spill
yesterday, and contrary to the logic that might suggest a cheap replacement was
in order for an item that had suffered such a carelessness-related demise, I
picked up a fancy Microsoft wireless desktop as a replacement. Now I am
suffering with a couple of inconveniences using it, because they have decided
that the small array of keys above the arrow keys (home, insert, etc.) needed
rearranging. Specifically, the six keys are now five, and instead of being two
rows and three columns, the keys are now in two columns, with the insert key
removed from the mix and placed on the top row to share a key with PrtScrn and
SysRq (talk about marginalized -- I guess some folks find accidentally hitting
Insert as welcome as the Caps Lock). This all completely messes with my
instinctive use of all these keys, and why? Because they decided the delete key
needed to be twice as tall as it was for some reason. Also, the 12 function keys
that are traditionally laid out in three groups of four are now four groups of
three. WTF?
Nothing like a little change for change's sake. Too bad, because the keyboard
has the nicest action I've ever used... but I still may have to return this. We
shall see.
I guess today marks the true start of the holiday season, as the Festival of
Lights begins tonight at sundown. Happy Chanukah!
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I would HIGHLY recommend the new Saitek Gamer Keyboard myself. No more F-Lock key to mess with either!!
I've heard a lot of good things about that keyboard. I messed aroud with a display model at the local CompUSA and it had a nice feel and layout to it.
on the other hand the Ideazon Zboard sucks IMO. Got it free with Halo PC in a promotional and used it all of 15 minutes. Just cant justify swapping out the key insert everytime I want to play a few rounds.
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/ideazon_zboard_review/
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