| | | This wireless keyboard--uses a 2.4 GHz USB dongle--pretty much saved my wrists or shoulders or something. Super comfortable, the built in wrist rest is perfect, the keys are great. The numeric keypad is detached--forget what type of battery it uses--and I don't use that, so although there are two columns of function keys on the right side of the keyboard itself--Delete, Home, End, etc--it still sticks into potential mouse area a good deal less than a normal keyboard--so you don't have to have your mousing arm sticking out so far to the side, which was good for my ergonomically troubled right shoulder at the time!
The split keyboard layout caused me some trouble in Angband because the B key which is used there for down-left diagonal movement is split off on the left side of the keyboard, separate from the other "roguelike" layout movement keys. ; D
The keyboard proper uses two AAA batteries. Amazon says "purchased Jul 29, 2022" and the two 12-2028 Energizer alkaline batteries in it--I think they were the ones it came with, because I always buy *lithium* Energizer batteries--just died today, Jan 3 2025; that's after using the keyboard pretty much all day every day. |
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| | | And of course, Microsoft has discontinued it. : P
... Oh! Microsoft shut down its peripherals line in 2023 apparently https://www.yahoo.com/tech/microsoft-ergonomic-keyboard-ultra-responsive-230612858.html , but company Incase has contracted to bring them back--so just now they've announced what sure looks like a Sculpt with the split gap filled in (but still a split key layout), called just "Compact Ergonomic Keyboard" with the subtitle "Designed by Microsoft." No numeric pad. https://www.incase.com/collections/compact-ergonomic-keyboard/products/compact-ergonomic-keyboard |
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| | | Oh actually there is going to be a Sculpt, that's
https://www.incase.com/collections/sculpt-ergonomic-keyboard/products/sculpt-ergonomic-keyboard
The CEK has the two left function key columns removed or shrunk / rearranged...hmm but it's still the same size, 15.4"x9", so I guess it just has bigger keys overall. ; D Given that and the somewhat less convenient function keys--not sure there's a proper right CTRL key for instance--maybe I'd stick with their Sculpt recreation--which is also $20 less, even though it DOES come with a detached numeric keypad. |
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