On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 10:06, Fraser Campbell wrote:

Hi,

I'd like to get myself a new keyboard for Christmas. I'm considering the split keyboard (Microsoft Natural IIRC) or a dvorak layout.

I find that if I type a lot (programming session of any significant length) then the top of my hands start to really ache. Anyone have experience/recommendations on the effectiveness of different keyboards in reducing typing fatigue?

I'm a recent convert to the split keyboard and now a strong proponent. It does take some getting used (and next time you go to a server console you'll feel really cramped :) but I've found that instead of my wrists looking sort of like | | / \ which caused wrist and thumb pain after more than 4 hrs of typing, they now look more like / \ / \ which I gather is more natural, and sure feels a lot better. Trying not to support M$ whenever possible I bought the logitech version and have been quite happy with it (rh9, 10 & mandrake 9.1 through kvm). It's wireless (mine came with mouse) and hasn't been too bad on batteries. Cheers, Oliver -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml