I’ll postpone the review until I get used to it a bit. Besides, I still have the write the review for the Keytronic. I’ll list just a few first impressions though:
- It’s black
- It’s USB
- The faux leather wrist wrest feels very nice, but a bit sweaty. Maybe I just have warm hands
- It has new car smell 😉
- The negative tilt feels nice on the hands, but it actually makes the front portion of the keyboard too high given my current desk/chair arrangement. I’ll have to adjust that.
- The keys are definitely rubber dome keys, but they are extremely quiet. They seem on the stiff side, and have an ok tactile feel. Not great, but not terrible.
- The spacebar seems a little slippery. Also, compared to other keys it makes more noise when you press it down
- They fixed all the random key layout problems
- Support for pressing multiple keys at once seems pretty decent. It seems to handle the USB maximum of 6 simultaneous keys down just fine.
- The volume keys work on my mac mini without installing any software
- Although subtle, the optimal hand positioning seems quite different from the MS Natural Elite. I will have to experiment with this
- The raised wrist wrest makes hitting the arrow keys somewhat awkward. Sitting on home position is much more comfortable, but leaving it almost seems more uncomfortable.