Time to find something more permanent, though. When the adjustable legs were flipped out the whole keyboard bent in the middle whenever I typed on it.Īs a temporary solution, however, it was perfect and within a few days my fingers were no longer hurting and the RSI was calming down. What let it down for me, however, was how flexible it was. The K200 is a full-size, 105-key keyboard with four media keys, and four hot keys. For a keyboard so cheap I was quite surprised by how comfortable it was to type on. In the end my fingers were getting so painful I just ordered a really cheap Logitech Media Keyboard K200 as a stopgap. USB or PS/2? wireless or wired? mechanical or membrane? I spent a few weeks researching what kind of keyboard I should buy, investigating the options, and weighing up the pros and cons.

I like to use exactly the same keyboard in both locations so that I don’t have to think about where my fingers should go.

It was time to get a new keyboard, both at home and at work. In the end I realised that the only extra keys that I used regularly were the four media keys.Īnd after six years of constant use I was beginning to get very sore fingers after typing with it, not to mention prolonged bouts of RSI. Similarly, I rarely used any of the other hot keys. I rarely if ever used the zoom slider, and since upgrading to Windows 7 I stopped using the My Favourites, as you can achieve something similar by holding down the Windows key and tapping a number (Win+1 will open the first application pinned to your taskbar, Win+2 opens the second, etc.). In practice I always remapped the Calculator hot key to open My Documents as it was the closest reconfigurable key to my mouse the shortest distance for my right hand to move. Help, Undo, Redo, New, Fwd, Open, Close, Reply, Send, Spell, Save, Print) F-Lock key (toggles F1-F12 between standard function keys and predefined actions, e.g.Hot keys (My Documents, My Pictures, My Music, Mail, Web/Home, Messenger, Calculator, Log Off, Sleep).Five My Favorites (sic) keys for launching your favourite applications.Four media keys (play/pause, stop, previous track, next track).Volume buttons (volume up, volume down, mute).It was a great keyboard: comfortable to use, solid and highly customisableĪs you can see from the image above, the Digital Media Pro has lots of extra buttons:

Microsoft Digital Media Pro Microsoft Digital Media Pro keyboardįor the decade or more I’ve used various Microsoft keyboards, for the last six years or so my keyboard of choice has been the Microsoft Digital Media Pro. Recently I’ve been on the hunt for a replacement for what has long been my standard, trusty keyboard, the Microsoft Digital Media Pro. What keyboard and mouse do you use, is it the one that came bundled with your PC? The last couple of PCs I ordered I made a point of making sure they didn’t include a cheap, budget keyboard.

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