dvorak

[Granger]

In case you just want to remove the paint from the caps you can use a good chemical solvent to rid them of most of the keyboards available today (except the ones with laser etched keycaps).

Even cheaper (and reversible) solution is to remove all square keyboard caps, put them into a bag, stirr well. Then assemble them top-left to bottom right while drawing from the bag, scrabble style. This fucks up a keyboard reliably enough to drive away average users within seconds, so you have your machine for yourself.

While the optimus keyboard sounds nice in theory i don't see a point unless you're really switching constantly between several esoteric keyboard layouts.

[Darkren]

This thread is now about keyboards.

I looked at some reviews for Das Keyboard and found that the keyboard seems to look dirty after a few weeks, and due its shiny nature attracts more dust than a Black&Decker. It has a model with actual painted keys, but the paint wears off after minimal time. (Anyone with a good keyboard still has 100% legible keys, after years.) I absolutely love the full rollover option as a gamer (Playing DMC4 and being unable to lock target and hold a charged shot while dodging diagonally has resulted in many frustrating game-overs), but I'm almost certain I could find other keyboards with that capability.

[Jfloyd]

BTW, the reason I posted this thread was a mere curiosity about anyone attempting to use it with video games.

I tried it for a day and felt it'd be impossible for certain things, like using Photoshop/Illustrator, let alone Haven.

[DatOneGuy]

BTW, the reason I posted this thread was a mere curiosity about anyone attempting to use it with video games.

I tried it for a day and felt it'd be impossible for certain things, like using Photoshop/Illustrator, let alone Haven.

The games you're playing don't have dvorak options? For shame.

As for photoshop/illustrator, pretty sure I saw it somewhere in the menus of CS4... pretty sure...

[loftar]

I looked at some reviews for Das Keyboard and found that the keyboard seems to look dirty after a few weeks, and due its shiny nature attracts more dust than a Black&Decker.

That's quite a pity. I've been eying it myself if only for its Cherry MX keyswitches. I'm currently using a 1984 Cherry keyboard (using their linear-style switches), which is quite great, but I much prefer the feel of a buckling spring switch, which seems to be the style of the switches in Das Keyboard. I've already broken a real Model M (I know, shame on me) and its successor (the Unicomp Customizer that I linked to) by spilling tea on them, which they seem to be extraordinarily sensitive to (apparently, mere drops of it dissolves the metal traces of its contact membranes), but this Cherry board has been very resilient against anything I've done to it, and (with the all too brief exceptions of the Model M and the Customizer) I've been using it since 1994, so I've come to trust their switches.

For the price of Das Keyboard, I would have hoped that they had at least used more dirt-resilient plastics, though. Does anyone know if there are any other keyboards with reasonable switches than Das Keyboard? All the local stores around here only have variations on the same worthless rubber-dome crapboards.

[melzar]

my cat has a taste for tea, and ive left my cup sitting on my desk near my computer while i left the room (i never learn) and my cat would get into it and knock the tea onto my keyboard. this has happened.. 3 times on a single keyboard in a 6 month time span, and my keyboard still works like the day i got it, save for a few sticky keys.

[kaka]

my cat has a taste for tea, and ive left my cup sitting on my desk near my computer while i left the room (i never learn) and my cat would get into it and knock the tea onto my keyboard. this has happened.. 3 times on a single keyboard in a 6 month time span, and my keyboard still works like the day i got it, save for a few sticky keys.

lol
Cats.
Your keyboard got sticky from tea? You haven't done something unholy now, have you?

[melzar]

just.. lol..