A brief reflection and look at how far our community has come since joining. I’ve been in the mechanical keyboard hobby for a very long time. It started as a high school student’s search for a keyboard for writing novels back in the 2008-2009 school year. I thought I wanted to be an author and I felt I needed a keyboard that I could sit down to at my desk and just write. After researching, joining forums, and saving money, I made my first purchase in the hobby, a blank black Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2. I still own this keyboard and while it is heavily modded now, it remains one of my all-time favorites. My HHKB Pro2 with MitchCapped Accents Many people would have stopped there, but keyboards became a hobby. I enjoyed learning about them, and early on, I enjoyed hunting for them in thrift shops. I would dig through bins at Goodwill and Salvation Army while popping keycaps off with paperclips looking for mechanical switches. I searched for a birthday Model M...
May 7, 2024
A side comment - function keys do stink. Pretend they are not there, that is it, and if you are heavy user of ESC key just use programmable nature of keyboard to remap ESC to some other key.
Bottom line - if you work with computer to earn a living, and suffer from wrist pain (even if it is minor), do yourself a favor and get this keyboard. Or 2, like I did. And those were best spent $500 in my whole life (and so much cheaper that surgery alternative!).
Here is one bad news associated with this keyboard. It is true end-game. If you switch to it successfully, there is NO upgrade path. If it breaks, you will want to replace it with another one just like it. I know I will.
In case somebody from Kinesis is reading this - THANK YOU!
The amazing thing about these keyboards is I find they get better with age