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Phil Winstanley - British .NET chap based in Lancashire. Enjoys tea and tech. Working for Microsoft.

The keyboard that clicks.

I orderd a new keyboard this week and it's arrived.

My typing skills are pretty okay, but they could certainly be improved, so what I've done is bought a keyboard with no letters on it, and by that I mean it's completly blank, all the keys are just black.

I'm typing this blog posting with the keyboard and it seems to be going okay, I'm making mistakes and correcting them but overall my fingers are finding the right keys.

It's funny actually, I find it much easier to type whilst looking at the blank keyboard with no letters on it than just looking at the screen, I wonder if it's something to do with my brain being happier I'm going to press the key square on as opposed to wether or not it's the right key - most odd.

You can have a look at the keyboard here. 

As well as having no lettering, the keyboard is a dream to type on, the keys feel very tactile and solid, mostly due to the wonderful mechanical switches from cherry that they keyboard uses. 

 

It's a nice keyboard, I look forward to seeing if it does improve my typing speed or quality. 

 

Posted: Aug 05 2006, 02:05 PM by Plip | with 52 comment(s)
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So did you find a UK supplier or have to order it from the States? The keyboard on my Sony laptop is very similar - less than three years old and all the lettering has worn off, but Sony refuse to cover it under the 3 year warranty I paid big bucks for because they say it's "normal wear and tear". Needless to say it's the last Sony laptop I'll buy. But now that I'm getting used to a "blank" keyboard it would be good to have a bigger version with keys that click, but not sure I'd want to pay US postage for it.

# August 5, 2006 12:41 PM

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It's such a shame that they had to add the glyphs for the NumLock, CapsLock, ScrollLock lights..otherwise I'd have had a v1.0 keyboard long ago :)

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