![]() ![]() I find them to be great for short typing sessions, but for heavy-duty typing (which is 95% of the time for me) I go back to my Apple Extended Keyboard II or the first-gen. I’m not a fan of the latest Apple keyboards. When I switched to the Mac as my main system back in the early 1990s, my first Mac keyboard was the not-so-bad Apple Keyboard II (M0487), then the much better Apple Standard Keyboard (M0116) then, when I acquired a used Macintosh Quadra 700 in 1999, it came with the glorious Apple Extended Keyboard II, which I’ve been using ever since, alternating it with the Apple USB Keyboard (M2452) and later with the first-generation Apple Wireless Keyboard, the one that retains the looks of the Apple Pro Keyboard. I prefer both the tactile feel and the sound of the blue Cherry MX switches, and though I find the Das to be the ugliest of the bunch, a serious typist knows you shouldn’t be looking at your keyboard while you’re typing.Īs for me, I started typing on a mechanical typewriter and on a Commodore VIC-20, and from there it’s been a mechanical keyboard after another, including a fair share of Model M keyboards. If you too want to adorn your desk with an ugly keyboard - one with a loud personality and which increases typing productivity - then I recommend the Das Keyboard. There is variety when typing on a mechanical keyboard. ![]() Space Bar, Backspace, Return, and the letters - each produce a unique sound and have their own tactile feel. You could tell how many words someone types, and how many in-line typos they fix, simply by listening. Something I like about mechanical keyboards is that each key has its own unique sound and feel. The sound and the feel of a clicky keyboard only takes a few days to get used to, and what follows is this intense feeling of productivity that now accompanies anything I type. Shawn Blanc has written a great, thorough review of three ‘clicky keyboards’ - the Das Keyboard Professional Model S, the Apple Extended Keyboard II, and the Matias Tactile Pro 3:Īfter a month of using and testing the three most popular clicky keyboards for Mac, I am extremely glad I jumped into these waters. ![]()
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