Re: OT: Women. Don't listen to them

I do begrudgingly admit that MS make some fine keyboards, though.

I have an Internet Pro keyboard - it's possibly the best keyboard I've used since the olde-worlde 'clicky' IBM keyboards.

Even the Internet Pro isn't that great although they're better. They just seem great because we the consumers have got used to really s**te keyboards by now.

i love the microsoft keyboards and mice. they aint cheap mind! i just HATED the stupid natural keyboard. was a bastard to type on was totally un-natural which is kinda ironic

The mice are pretty good although I prefer to use Logitech mice. The keyboards aren't that great compared to the really good ones out there.

And they're cheap.

At least compared to the ones I've got to use[1].

MS Naturals are a Marmite option. I hated them, but I worked with a guy who was so much quicker with one. He was a proper touch typist with the proper finger spread. Which is unusal for a coder.

I rarely look at the keyboard, but I still don't touch type properly.

Not the best key action in the world, admittedly, but I'm used to the layout and type a lot quicker on it than I do on a standard keyboard.

Seconded, I prefer the Logitech kit as well.

I use the Dell keyboard work gave me and it's a good typer. Some handy shortcut buttons on it too and it works as a USB hub so I've got the mouse plugged into it. It's on a KVM switch between my laptop docking station and my PC.