A final couple of acquisition speculations: Keyboard and headset.

Post #433,013 by CRConrad 3/14/20 8:05:23 PM 3/14/20 8:05:23 PM Reply	A final couple of acquisition speculations: Keyboard and headset. Having acquired a laptop[1], a screen[2] and a mouse[3], there's only two more things I need[4]: A keyboard and a headset, i.e. headphones with microphone. Can't quite decide if I need them to be wireless or if wired is OK, so any ideas welcome. Hit me! --- 1: http://forum.iwethey.org/forum/post/431349/ 2: http://forum.iwethey.org/forum/post/433012/ 3: https://www.3dconnexion.eu/cadmouse_pro_wireless_left/eu/ 4: AFAIK. At the moment. -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who (used to think he) Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
Post #433,019 by pwhysall 3/15/20 4:35:15 AM 3/15/20 4:36:54 AM Reply	Re: A final couple of acquisition speculations: Keyboard and headset. I have this keyboard: https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/products/gaming-keyboards/g512-mechanical-gaming-keyboard.html (you can turn the RGB off, but I really like it :D ) Can't help you with a mouse. Too personal. I have a Razer Taipan and am thinking of replacing it with a SteelSeries Sensei 310 - the Razer is a little small and I have huge hands. Gaming gear, despite its occasionally lurid appearance and nomenclature, is often much better in day-to-day use than its po-faced "business" equivalents. Edited by pwhysall March 15, 2020, 04:36:54 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #433,021 by CRConrad 3/15/20 7:28:53 AM 3/15/20 7:28:53 AM Reply	Can you make it monochrome, for a normal backlight? I've become spoiled by laptops, so a backlight / "through-keys-light" is probably a must. But that gaudy display in the pic... Ugh. The LRB does that on bootup, but the she fortunately settles into monochrome. Oh, and does it have caps- and num-lock lights? That's the LRB's biggest failing; she doesn't. But, the gaudy blinkenlights are supposed to be programmable, so maybe I can get the Lock keys to light up in a different indicator colour according to state... Just haven't done anything about that yet. (Oh, and the weird endearing quirk of the otherwise Scandi-keys keyboard, just to show she's really German after all: The "End" key is labelled "Ende".) Yeah, I looked at gaming mice too, and came this >.Tip / Recommendation for you: Look at that 3DConnex I got. It's available in both rightie and leftie versions, and quite big. I got it mainly for the leftyness, but also thought I'd like how big it is; I've always preferred somewhat bigger over smaller mouses. This thing, though, is if anything perhaps a smidgeon too big for my about-average-sized-I-guess hands. Fortunately not by much, so I think and hope I'm getting used to it. It's solidly built, feels robust as heck, and has a lot of special driver-thingies (mostly for CAD software, but I think office stuff too; haven't tried any of it) included. Connectivity BT / USB wireless dongle / micro-USB (also for charging), so can be used tethered with radios off. All in all pretty great, and at a guess even more so for your bigger mitts. I got the impression 3DConnexion is a spin-out from Logitech, and at the upper end of that... Biggest annoyance is pretty tiny: Nowhere to keep the USB radio dongle, no compartment either in the mouse itself not in the otherwise fancy zippered case. As JerryP would have said: Recommended. -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who (used to think he) Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
Post #433,034 by pwhysall 3/16/20 7:02:58 AM 3/16/20 7:02:58 AM Reply	Yes. Any colour you like, or no colour at all.
Post #433,031 by Ashton 3/15/20 8:18:01 PM 3/15/20 8:18:01 PM Reply	Query, then.. Props for the precision also accuracy of this quandary which I express as, the Search for an Original IBM-grade Keyboard: with its unerring 'feel of completion-of-stroke' at price of bulk and alas, absence of such now-universal fucction key-assignment I have an annoying Logi- K-811 (the '10' but aimed at OS X) which does many things seamlessy BUT, while there is a weak over-center-toggle: it does-Not correspond with success!--actual keystroke-landed, unless hit rather hard for this One's expectations: thus multiplying My?/Their? fucking-Typos unto distraction. In other words, there's no 'flow' twixt one's stuff to be entered and ... that one-finger-typing process wherein each key is hit as-if it were rilly-dumb. And who can type well ..That way? I can stand a bigger gadget, but it must indeed have the (in this case: even room-light aware) key illumination; I too would pay-for Color-assigned keys like the bloody caps-lock-in-Red: I just disabled its function--it is so maddeningly adjacent to several popular keys; w.t.f. Needs to regularly do ALL-CAPS? (except Mad-men). I'd put up with the pukka, clean IBM /noise were it capable of retro-fitting--short of soldering-up boards to emulate what's missing re Function assets--but that would be a job for still-around? BYTE-creative types, not moi. If I'm missing perhaps.. some KB you've encountered which handles what the K-811 does OK, I'm all ears. I'm about to make-room for the pair, expanding desk-part of my otherwise nicely-small Station == iMac ancillaries. Blu-tooth 811 means: handiest would be a sturdy-support floating just above/behind the IBM. (No, a hovering robo-copter is just too noisy). No reply needed unless there's something out there I missed, but you didn't. :-)
Post #433,035 by pwhysall 3/16/20 7:12:47 AM 3/16/20 7:12:47 AM Reply	There's any number of people doing USB model Ms (and conversion kits)
Post #433,036 by pwhysall 3/16/20 7:14:56 AM 3/16/20 7:14:56 AM Reply	Here you go https://www.pckeyboard.com/ Brand new buckling-spring Model Ms with USB connectivity.
Post #433,054 by Ashton 3/17/20 3:01:43 AM 3/17/20 3:01:43 AM Reply	Ah... its already an industry--thanks much--small one has the Goods/OS X. qwertyuiop
Post #433,050 by static 3/17/20 1:19:46 AM 3/17/20 1:19:46 AM Reply	There seems to be a rush of mechanical keyboards. I have a KeyChron (crowdfunded) but am not as impressed with it as I thought I would be. I suspect the key travel is a bit too high. Or the keys have too much horizontal play. www.keychron.com The keyboard I actually really like is the Happy Hacking Keyboard, but I can appreciate that this might not be a suitable thing for all people. It is a very high quality membrane keyboard. I have an older one that is USB and has arrow keys, but they've recently revamped them and it is now Bluetooth by default. https://happyhackingkb.com/ There was also a quite entertaining video made by Linus Sebastian (Youtube channel: Linus Tech Tips) where he reviewed about a half-dozen cheap mechanical switch keyboards all from China. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vupP1rS4MLw Wade.
Post #433,053 by pwhysall 3/17/20 2:36:52 AM 3/17/20 2:39:28 AM Reply	The HH keyboard seems to be... ...incomplete. Where's the cursor keys? We're not all vi-using throwbacks writing leaky C code! Seriously. It's a membrane keyboard with a third of the keys missing. And holy fuck it's nearly £200? GTFO, Wade :D Edited by pwhysall March 17, 2020, 02:39:28 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #433,063 by static 3/17/20 5:12:04 PM 3/17/20 5:12:04 PM Reply	The HH keyboard is tougher than you think. Besides, people usually choose it for the layout, not the key technology. And like I said, I have an older version that has arrow keys. Hopefully they'll add that to a new version soon enough! Wade.

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