On Friday 12 December 2003 10:21, Taavi Burns wrote:

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

And these two are mutually exclusive how? :)

You can easily use both. If you're interested in alternative layouts for the keyboard, you should be quite prepared to NOT be looking at the keys anyway, so the glyphs on them shouldn't matter.

Are you suggesting I buy a regular split keyboard but tell the system that it's dvorak? Glyphs on the keyboard are rather useful when you're still learning the layout.

I have a few coworkers who use keybaords from Kinesis. I believe that one of them uses it with a Dvorak, while the other still uses qwerty. Kinesis offers a selection of keyboards ranging from nearly traditional to "pretty far out and pricey". So again, it depends how much you want to spend.

http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/keyboards.htm http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/us_versions.htm

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