[geeks] grudging praise for a Micosoft product

[Phil Stracchino]

Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 05:46:10PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Nave you tried the current Ergo 4000 model?  I'm liking mine a lot.
> 
> I stopped looking at them once they made the function keys and the ESC key
> tiny.  I use a LOT of vi/vim, and need that Escape key that I dont have to
> hunt down.

uh ...   the fkeys/ESC on my 4000 are normal full-size keys.  (Well, OK, 
technically they're maybe 15%-20% narrower top-to-bottom than the fkeys 
on, say, a Sun type 6, but they're the same width.)

Are you thinking of the Natural Keyboard Elite?  That thing was a 
horrible misbegotten abortion ... I think just about *everybody* who 
ever had to use one hated it and complained about the key layout.


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