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Am I the only one than hates laptop or flat-key keyboards? Regular keyboard keys are concave and your fingers sit in them; I can type quite fast with those. However, The standard laptop keyboard or most Mac keyboards I loathe. It is like my fingers cannot "feel" where they are at. Maybe because I grew up on the Model M keyboard...?
My work has offered me some nice laptops to program on, but I always do not accept them. I once switch my WHOLE house to Mac's (when they went Intel) and didn't make it 12 months before I sold them all because of the keyboards on the laptops.
Are there ANY laptops with REAL keyboards with concave keys? I would be all over that.
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The only 'laptop' keyboard I've ever used that had a decent feel was on the TRS-80 Model 100[^]. The keys had reasonable travel, and you could actually type on the thing.
Modern laptop keyboards are flat with little or no key travel. I realize it's a response to to the "I'm thinner! No, I'm thinner!" crap war started by Apple and the MacBook Air, but it does a disservice to users who do text work on the things.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: it does a disservice to users who do text work on the things
You aren't supposed to work on them, the whole idea is to look cool and trendy...
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I've got a tech writer friend who'd love to go a few rounds on that one  .
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Quote:
Am I the only one than hates laptop or flat-key keyboards?
Yeso, apparentlyo.
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Depending on where I am
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Personally, I don't like messing with batteries, so I'm 100% wired.
Hogan
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The antique keyboard. I've been using this keyboard for many many years now. It's a MaxData keyboard and on the back it actually says "Cherry Keyboard Win 95 US".
I've been a gamer for years and I've gamed A LOT. I've also written quite some essays for school on this baby. After that, of course, I became a programmer and I've been using my keyboard to code for a couple of years now.
Let's just say it looks and feels like new after almost 20 years of extensive use and it still types better than most newer keyboards I've tried (it's a bit more noisy though)! 
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Then I'm missing an option to your option. My oldest keyboard is from 1979. It still has a steel case and real keys, not that rubber bubble stuff that is used today. And I gad to solder each and every key onto the circuit boars, along with the encoder chip and the connectors.
Found one like it in a museum: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102669803[^] At least mine is still ok and works with the old computer right next to it. 
PS: Why is there no option for hex keyboards, which are still the only suitable device for real programming?
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My primary keyboard is an IBM KB-6323[^] made in 1997.
For my DEC systems I have a VT220 from 1986 with an LK201-AA[^].
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I had a keyboard like that at work for over ten years. Once a year I took it home over a weekend, disassembled it and cleaned the keytops.
It eventually died, and was buried with full military honors in the company electronics recycling bin.
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I am still using the HP keyboard from the first Windows PC I bought in '98. It still has the 'Demo' sticker on it! Many workstations, monitors, and mice have come and gone of the last 15 years, but the original keyboard remains, and probably will until they quit putting PS/2 jacks on desktop mobos.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I used to live a few miles away from the Cherry plant and yes, they make wonderful keysets.
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I guess I am using too many different devices.
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For me, always standard keyboard is best for development activities.,
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I don't want to spoil the Laptop keyboard by using that most of the time so connected external keyboard to laptop.
Besides it gives me little distance(based on keyboard cable length) between me & laptop. And also using external mouse.
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Unless you're trying to do something bizaare like hiding your laptop in the next room and using an external monitor instead the length of the keyboard cable shouldn't matter. I've occasionally ran into cabling length issues because my desktop's tower is farther away than normal but none of those should be an issue with a normally used laptop.
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-- Sarah Hoyt
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I use external keyboard and mouse with my laptop when I'm developing. If I'm taking the laptop on vacation or something I only take the mouse. I can't stand the touchpad thing. Laptop keyboard isn't too bad but prefer a regular keyboard.
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I use an external keyboard and monitor with my laptop at home, mostly because the onboard keyboard has poor tactile response and the monitor is vertically short (1366 x 768).
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I am surprised that there is not an option for mechanical keyboards. It would be interesting to see how often they are used outside of gaming.
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I'm using a Filco Majestouch Tenkeyless.
It has Cherry MX brown switches, so is medium on the clatter-o-meter scale.
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WASD Keyboards Code Keyboard with Cherry MX Clear's here!
- Arcond
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I use a Razer BlackWindow Ultimate Stealth at home (Cherry MX Brown switches), technically a gaming keyboard but I've mostly used the "gaming" features for coding (specifically, the additional macro keys are great for on-the-fly temporary code templates and some refactoring). Of course, I do quite a bit of gaming with it too, but I've never really needed macros in games. Makes using a "regular" keyboard kind of disappointing though...I really need to get a mechanical for work.
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I use the same exact keyboard! Love it!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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It's basically flat (in that it's standard QWERTY without a "break" in the middle), but with extra keys for zoom, media control and applications mapped to function keys (with a modifier key).
I've tried the split ones, but they are a PITA from my POV - they take too long to get used to, and cause a lot of hassle in the learning process. I did have a brief infatuation with Dvorak layout but while it's fast when you get used to it, as soon as you go near someone elses computer you are stuffed. 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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