A blog post on the importance of keyboards. I concur! I’m reasonably happy with my pre-Aluminium Apple wireless keyboard, but I’m still waiting for something that’s RSI-reducing, has decent tactile response (despite being a child of the eighties, I used to own a typewriter and have a lot of push in these fingers of mine). A nice noisy clatter is fine.
I have a huge problem with most laptop keyboards - the one on my MacBook Pro is pretty good - I fat-finger the keys a little, and it’s plagued with first revision Apple defects (fuck you, Steve Jobs, I just want a computer that works) that have cost me tons in repairs that anywhere else than Apple would be covered by warranty. Most PC laptop keyboards I’ve used are a pile of utter shite. They keys are off just target enough to be unusable.
Despite people wishing for neural and body gesture interfaces, keyboards are still going to be with us in fifty years. I want a keyboard that doesn’t get dirty, doesn’t require cleaning, that I can drop off my desk and it’ll still work (hey, I could probably drop my old typewriter on the floor and it’d do more damage to the floor than the typewriter), is secure (ie. the Bluetooth connection between the computer and the keyboard is encrypted), has a reassuring clatter and is something that I can write hundreds of pages with comfortably.
