The new funkey keyboard layout they are trying to sell

by Elsewhere 18 Replies latest jw friends

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  Elsewhere

  Anyone try the new funky keyboard layout that most keyboard manufacturers are selling now?

  The one where the Delete key is tall, the Home and End keys are moved next to each other and and the arrow keys are moved to the left under the Shift key.

  I recently bought the Logitech 510 (The one shown on the bottom) and I absolutely HATE it.

  Years ago I learned how to touch-type, which means I type without actually looking at the keyboard. This also means I can do very quick text edits using the arrow keys along with the Delete, Home, End and other related keys... all without ever looking down.

  With this new keyboard layout I keep having to stop and fumble around trying to find the damn arrow and other editing keys.

  Anyone else try this thing? Does it drive you nuts too???

  Normal Keyboard:
  

  The New FUNKEY keyboard:
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  PopeOfEruke

  Logitech keyboards are CRAP and I would rather have bamboo shoots shoved simultaneously into my urethra and eyeballs than ever buy their crap again.

  Pope
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  juni

  I have a Logitech and it looks pretty similar, but not exactly. Actually it does look like the first one. LOL Sorry...................

  All I know is that the painted letters are scraping off. Good thing I know where the keys are.

  Juni
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  jgnat

  You think YOU got it bad. As I am a nomad and a lefty to boot. I could be in any of three or four offices a week. I have to type on whatever keyboard is in front of me. Try THIS on for size:

  http://www.ergocanada.com/products/keyboards/dvortyboard_ergonomic.html

  I'm a touch typist too. This is what I want:

  Only smaller.
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  Skimmer

  For what it's worth, years ago I switched all my keyboards to use the Dvorak layout. While it took a while to get adjusted to the change, it has paid off it terms of greater speed and comfort.
  
  Most of the world's fastest typists use Dvorak. Try it yourself for a few weeks and you'll see why.
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  cruzanheart

  I'm too old for this . . . Where's my old Selectric?

  Nina
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  lonelysheep

  I would like a logitech keyboard. I see the delete key is bigger than the standard keyboard. That's useful for people like me, who hit 'insert' too much by mistake.

  NO pun intended!!
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  PopeOfEruke

  Lonely sheep,

  take my advice and go with the bamboo shoots! You'll be better off!

  Pope
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  SnakesInTheTower

  POPE .....

  rather have bamboo shoots shoved simultaneously into my urethra and eyeballs

  OMFG! That is painful and graphic ROFL!

  When I was in Germany last year, I was using the hotel internet connection to IM and email my then fiancee. I am a touch typist and not a bad one either. I could not figure out why I was misspelling words and putting the letter z into places when I was never typing a z. Then I realized that the German keyboard was, as is the English keyboard, customized for the frequency of the letters used in the language...and the letter z is used often in German...thus in a more prominent place. I was more careful after that. After a few days of that, I got home and had to relearn the English QWERTY board again...

  SnakesInTheTower (of the "Cringing at What Pope Said" Sheep Class)
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  Mysterious

  I like the funky one actually. The last time I had a normal keyboard then was years ago, my boyfriend's also has that layout. My keyboard is even weirder though because it's the split natural one.