New Keyboard
July 28th 2004
I realized today that my Caps Lock light decided to die. I don’t know why, I don’t know how, but I know that it no longer tells me if I am in caps lock mode or not. Fortunately, typing one letter does this quite well, so I’m not crippled, but I think it’s generally a good idea to look into a new keyboard when your caps lock light dies.
Actually, my keyboard is a piece of crap. It came with my second real PC, which I must thank my grandpa for buying for me (footnote: my first was an Intel 486DX/66, which I got when my parents still had a 486/33, and I thought it was the coolest thing at the time to have a computer twice as fast plus a DX than my parents’ one). It was an AMD K6-2 333MHz (a large upgrade), with a keyboard to suit. The thing works just fine, but it’s loud, big, beige, and uncomfortable. My computer now is more modern; an Athlon XP 1700+, which is very fast when backed by 3/4ths of a gigabyte of RAM (I like saying it that way). But the keyboard leaves much to be desired.
Now, I’ve been saying for a long time that I want IBM to take the keyboard off my ThinkPad and plug it into my desktop. The IBM ThinkPad keyboard is the best keyboard in existence. Anytime I have a lot of typing to do, I use my ThinkPad. I really want a desktop keyboard exactly like it, and I’ve found only one promising canidate: Zippy Keyboards, by Keyboard Master. Any others ideas?
It came back on today. Blast. I’m just going to ignore it and say that it’s out so I can get me one of these.
Went back off. Considering a new keyboard again.