A swing... and a miss
Posted by admin, Tue May 30 04:35:21 UTC 2006
Microsoft Launches Wireless Keyboard and Mouse for Macs – Gizmodo
The Wireless Laser Desktops consists of a Comfort Curve keyboard—for the carpal tunnel—and a blob mouse—also for the carpal tunnel, but maybe also for the warts—and is compatible with Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs—because USB swings both ways like that.
I have used keyboards from the Microsoft Natural keyboard line-up for years. A couple of weeks ago, I bought the Comfort Curve 2000, after playing with one for a bit in the store. While I would have preferred a wireless version, and doubly preferred a Mac specific version, the Comfort Curve 2000 has it’s charms. It has some of the ergonomics of the Natural keyboards, but with a really nice low travel, low profile set of keys. And, of course, it has the proper layout for the arrow and Insert/Home/PgUp + Delete/End/PgDn (editing) keys.
This last bit is what is missing from the new wireless version. Sorry Microsoft, but switching around the key layouts on keyboards is just a bad, bad, idea. The only people I know who like that vertical layout for the editing keys… are people like my parents, who never use them, so they just don’t care. Well, the rest of us care. So, I won’t be buying a new wireless Mac keyboard from Microsoft this week. Too bad.