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> The three best Microsoft products are their natural keyboard...

The Natural Keyboards [0] have been getting less and less durable as the years go by. My first one lasted for ~five years. My second, two or three. My third is less than a year old and already suffering from intermittent failure to register keypresses, as well as surprisingly rapid breakdown of the faux leather material that covers the bottom portion of the keyboard. (The faux leather breakdown is a first for me... all the other keyboards suffered mechanical failure long before I saw any sort of wear on the bottom portion material.)

[0] Specifically, the MSFT Natural Ergonomic Keyboard X000 models that have the stupid, useless zoom slider.



I said they are the best, not that they are still very good ;-)

But I agree with you. My next one will be a kinesis.


> ...they are the best, not that they are still very good...

And I agree with you on both counts. :D

Are you thinking about one of the models with the bowl curves for the keys? If you are, have you typed on one? If you did, what did you think of it?


I did, and it's wonderful.

It's tough to adjust back to a laptop keyboard, however. And switching regularly may create new tissue in your cerebellum.




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