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0 pointsZababa4y ago0 comments

To me they don't sound like audiophiles. The keyboard in this article is $365. Audiophiles can put $10 000 in a cable. A cheap keyboard is like $20, my current keyboard is around $100. If you map it to something like car prices, cheap keyboards are like old used cars, something like mine a new car, and the keyboard in this article something like an Audi. We're still not on the Ferrari order of magnitude, or even the audiophile.

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kstenerud4y ago

$365 for a computer keyboard is well into the vanity stage.

Symbiote4y ago

A Microsoft ergonomic keyboard costs about $130.

A special ergonomic mouse -- the kind a couple of my colleagues had on medical advice after some RSI issues -- costs almost $500.

For vanity, see the standard Apple keyboard, which costs about $200.

Geeek4y ago

Do you mind naming the mice your colleagues are using?

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NateEag4y ago

Where is the split, mechanical, symmetrical ortholinear with customizable firmware and thumb clusters that costs meaningfully less than that?

I wound up on the ErgoDox EZ due to wrist and arm pain that it helped significantly.

All of those features contributed to the pain reduction, as far as I can tell (based on the slow series of keyboard changes I went through).

This is not a rhetorical question - if there's a significantly cheaper option that meets my needs, I want to know.

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