Perhaps a better, mostly related question would be:
Can you keep your current keyboard working long enough for this to become available?
That seems like the ultimate keyboard, therefore by “TimeWinder’s Law of Cool Announced Technologies” it will probably either never become a real product, or have such lousy ergonomics it will be unusable. Bummer.
I’ve only ever replaced my keyboard once (about six or seven years ago). The cat had been gnawing on the cable and one day I discovered the cord had actually melted into the carpet. :eek:
I used an old Packard Bell keyboard for about thirteen years (ages six to nineteen) before it finally gave up the ghost (I wore most of the printing straight off the keys, particularly the ‘s’ from playing NetHack). I managed to find a Model M and don’t actually intend to buy another one for the next couple decades. I’ve got the PS2-USB converter already for the day they stop making motherboards with PS2 connectors, and when they give up on USB I’ll daisy-chain a converter on top of that.
I’ve had my microsoft keyboard for over 4 years now, and there’s nothing about it that’s bad. A little grungy, yes, but if I wasn’t super-lazy, I could easily clean it.
The keyboard I use at work (40 hours a week) is four years old. I’ve never cleaned it. It’s an HP.
Bought a new one today. My three year old HP keyboard was a piece of shit. First up, it was wireless (who the fuck needs a wireless keyboard?), and it chewed through batteries like there was no tomorrow.
But the main reason I pensioned it off was that the keys were made of some soft plastic that wore down, and they now look like ancient eroded mountains with craters in the middle (needless to say, the lettering wore off a couple years ago). I bit the bullet and bought a new one when the craters wore through and became holes.
Also, because I could see the way it was going, I gave up on it a long time ago, so it’s full of beer and cat hair.
For an expensive HP keyboard though, it’s not good enough.
The MS one I bought today seems to have a nice action to it though. And none of that wireless crap. It’s a desktop PC fershrissakes. It doesn’t go anywhere. I’m not going to sit across the other side of the room with the keyboard in my lap. What is the point of wireless?
Mine last me the life of the computer. I’ve had three computers, no early replacements. And my work keyboards seem to last forever as well.
Could there be a problem with the connection point that makes them burn out?