From Evan Sultanik

Newfangled keyboards

Have you bought a keyboard recently? I had an accident with mine involving lots of liquid, therefore I was immediately plunged into the market for one. All I wanted was a simple, 101-key, PS/2 keyboard. I also wanted a large backspace key about the same width as the Enter key; some keyboards have a shortened backspace key and increase the height of the backslash key (I hate this). When I got to CompUSA, to my horror, almost all of the keyboards were USB-only and had no less than three adjectives tacked on their names. "Microsoft Internet Navigator Multi-Media Wireless Natural Kitchen Sink Keyboard" didn't sound too appealing to me. Who uses all of those "Email," "SMS," and "Shopping" buttons on top anyway?! I especially didn't need/want them because I solely run Linux and chances are the use of those buttons requires running the keyboard through USB and having proprietary drivers. Blah. I ended up buying the Logitech Internet Navigator keyboard (it's both PS/2 and USB), and I am actually very happy with it. But next time I need a new keyboard I might opt for a Sun version (as an Emacs user, I need to click the control key a lot, and having it where the Caps-Lock key is seems more ergonomic), or one of these.

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