Yesterday I watched a video on Youtube, a dude was mentioning a "keyboard for programmers", but he didn't explain what "for programmers" really mean. He simply showed a very expensive (250 euro) mechanical keyboard, and I am really confused.
Is really there a keyboard optimized for programmers?!?
Like those keyboards optimized for gamers?
There aren't many options for a full sized keyboard with a pointing stick. AFAIK Unicomp EnduraPro is the only one currently available. Allegedly, its very much like an IBM model M + a classic Trackpoint, but with a USB plug on it. If you can live with a compact keyboard (no numberpad), Lenovo do the standalone USB 'ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II'.
I cant actually recommend either as I haven't used them as I'm a cheap-skate and my satisfaction criteria for keyboards are fairly low due to early experiences with rubber keyed 8-bitters best described as typing on a corpse, and I'm not *that* fond of pointing sticks (although if someone would make a min. 5 button mouse with a pointing stick for scroll wheel functionality, I'd be all over it)!
N.B. a buckling spring keyboard is likely to make you unpopular in a cube farm due to the resulting noise level!
https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/UWZBP4A
These Unicomp keyboards have the look and feel of the old PC-AT keyboard. They are made for people who know how to type fast.
I have two of these and they simply blow the doors off of every other keyboard I have ever had.
It's time to change my old keyboard because ... well because it just died.
R.I.P.
OK, I am mostly a C programmer, I usually also program in assembly, sometimes in Python, but I think i will write a lot of documents in Latex in the next months because the development list of tasks in my depart is rather idle at the moment.
Yesterday I watched a video on Youtube, a dude was mentioning a "keyboard for programmers", but he didn't explain what "for programmers" really mean. He simply showed a very expensive (250 euro) mechanical keyboard, and I am really confused.
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Both the Logitech MK270 and the Microsoft 600 have almost identical & standard layouts so switching between them is simple.
Both the Logitech MK270 and the Microsoft 600 have almost identical & standard layouts so switching between them is simple.Aah. Microsoft 600. My dad used to have it. until the lettering on it wore off.
Now I own rapoo nk1800.
Both microsoft and rapoo have a problem of developing a sticky muddy layer on keys after usage of upwards of 2 hours even if you wash your hands thrice before using them and have an AC turned on.
I don't know if they make them anymore, but only the LG keyboard didn't have that problem, which I used to own in the 2000s and died to a milk spill.
K70 RGB with Cherry MX Brown
Sadly it won't make you a better programmer but you get a nice tactile feel and clattering sound.
Go for Cherry MX Brown.... whatever you do don't go for a non-tactile switch like Cherry MX Red... they are horrible for programming.
(I also have a Corsair M65 ELITE RGB Optical FPS Gaming Mouse but that is only because it looks cool)
Numbers and symbols are upside down on the top row. That drives me nuts. No calculator or power button. Lots of desk real estate. It’s a “No” from me!
Numbers and symbols are upside down on the top row. That drives me nuts. No calculator or power button. Lots of desk real estate. It’s a “No” from me!
I don't fancy those RGB gaming keyboards that much either. But the K70 has a TKL version so that doesn't take too much real estate. Maybe you're one of those who can't do without a numeric keypad? I for one also thought I couldn't, until I tried, and never looked back. Full-size keyboards are just too large.
I would second a WASD keyboard. No bizarre lettering, no bizarre keys, well built.
The K70 seems to have a large palm rest, perhaps it's removable. The problem with the palm rest is that it won't fit in your average under-desk keyboard drawer, a feature that I find very useful for lab bench work.
That guy also showed his new iMac which comes with a super small keyboard, wireless. Aesthetically it looks nice, but the touch-pad is an external unit you have to buy separately. I don't know how good it for typing, it also comes a fingerprint recognizer, that's exactly one of the features I don't strictly need to have.
Is really there a keyboard optimized for programmers?!?
Like those keyboards optimized for gamers?
Numbers and symbols are upside down on the top row. That drives me nuts. No calculator or power button. Lots of desk real estate. It’s a “No” from me!
I don't fancy those RGB gaming keyboards that much either. But the K70 has a TKL version so that doesn't take too much real estate. Maybe you're one of those who can't do without a numeric keypad? I for one also thought I couldn't, until I tried, and never looked back. Full-size keyboards are just too large.
I would second a WASD keyboard. No bizarre lettering, no bizarre keys, well built.
I do prefer full size keyboards: I've become very jaded with reduced key layouts, with no apparent standard in the layouts of auxiliary keys such as cursor arrows and home keys.