Slim or Classic keyboard?

Aineko2011-01-09 00:42:08

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Aineko, 2011-01-09 00:42:08

I'm interested in the opinion of the community, what type of keyboard do you prefer for a desktop computer and why?

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23 answer(s)

DevMan, 2011-01-09
@Aineko

Classic. Because it's more convenient.
Although, IMHO, the right way to choose is not to ask the opinion of the majority, but to come to the store and choose for yourself what is more convenient for you personally.

jazzbird, 2011-01-09
@jazzbird

iSlava, 2011-01-09
@iSlava

I like slim keyboards because used to laptops. fingers slide over it if I may say so, but: 10 - finger blind typing method, in my opinion, is a little more complicated than on a regular keyboard. I still don’t use different multimedia keys - there are enough extra keys that are on mice.

uadeveloper, 2011-01-09
@uadeveloper

I use classic both at work and at home, because I think it’s more convenient, my fingers, as it were, perceive better where which key is because of the distance between them.

rusanovsky, 2011-01-09
@rusanovsky

Previously, I could not get used to keyboards with a non-Classic arrangement of a block of 6 buttons.
I am currently using this kit. (I used to do Shift Del and Shft Ins differently)
from bonuses, if there is not enough space on the desktop, the keyboard is easily removed ...

Gibbzy, 2011-01-09
@gibbzy

I love small buttons because I like to type quickly, large buttons - they have a longer travel and somehow my fingers get tangled in them.

Beholder, 2011-01-09
@Beholder

Neither one nor the other.
Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000.

recky, 2011-01-09
@recky

the classic (better, Natural-version) for the desktop, in my opinion, is more convenient. Plus, sometimes you want to swear, but in this case, the full-size one, again, is much more convenient. It seems to me that a laptop is a laptop keyboard, and a desktop is a desktop one.

Ivan Klimchuk, 2011-01-09
@Alroniks

Here, of course, everything is decided by an individual approach. For me - definitely slim. Since the keyboard is thinner, the key travel is less and therefore the speed of typing on slims is many times higher than on the classics.

Tycho, 2011-01-09
@Tycho

I hate keyboards with a short key travel, which are like on a laptop. You can’t print quickly on them and there is no comfort.
Of the normal ones, I like the old HPs the most, in which at first the button goes a little tighter, and then it’s easy - it’s immediately clear when you can let it go back :)

Scioner, 2011-01-09
@Scioner

It's just a matter of habit. Both of them have their downsides.
I, due to the specifics of the work, have to constantly work on both the laptop and the desktop. I used to hate slim and laptop keyboards for many years. Then, gritting my teeth, I bought myself a slim, because switching from classic to laptop and back seemed even worse.
I got used to it in two months and now, when I sit down for the classical one, it already seems absurd.
So no one can give a definite answer. Better what is more convenient at the moment, that's all.

kirsan_vlz, 2011-01-09
@kirsan_vlz

Always used the classic keyboard. Then for some time I moved from the desktop to the laptop. Liked. Now I use this keyboard on my desktop:
www.oklick.ru/products/catalog/keyboards/small/555s/
Full-size num-block and almost standard arrangement of Ins and Del. At the same time, the keyboard is compact, quiet and incredibly comfortable. Personally, the small key travel is more convenient for me than on classic keyboards.

Dominic, 2011-01-09
@Dominic

I recently switched to a slim keyboard, it is definitely more convenient, especially if the keys are of the "island" type, it is difficult to confuse them with a blind input method, due to the large gaps between them, it takes up much less space, plus you can work at night, since the keys are silent.
And using multimedia keys in combination with Fn is even more familiar after a laptop.

Rbox, 2011-01-09
@Rbox

Here, I think it's all a matter of habit.
Previously, I did not have a laptop, and I used standard keyboards. As soon as the laptop appeared, there was a wild dislike for these small and uncomfortable buttons. But "the mice cried and pricked ...", in general, after a short addiction - now I use only slim. As mentioned above - less stroke, faster printing, and quieter operation. And yes, it just feels better.

Dmitry, 2011-01-09
@plin2s

Slim. BTC 6300C - it couldn't be better! www.btc.ru/card/36/

StanleyLloyd, 2011-01-09
@StanleyLloyd

I use slim - thinner, quieter and more convenient for my taste :)

Mercury13, 2011-01-09
@Mercury13

You have to feel it, there is no definite answer. My “combat” keyboard is Microsoft ComfortCurve 2000. Slim, but the buttons are very embossed.

almazmusic, 2011-01-09
@almazmusic

After buying a full-size keyboard from Apple, I can’t use anything else. Before that, I used ordinary slim keyboards like Logitech UltraX - not that at all.

ayambit, 2011-01-09
@ayambit

Excellent thing. I have 3 years, I am satisfied.

Dmitry, 2011-01-09
@dmib

I bought myself a gift Asus EEE Keyboard + Mouse Set. Really like.

Yizakhi, 2011-01-09
@Yizakhi

Better classic. And I like the profiled one more (a la L. Wave).
Among laptops, the best of the current ones is this one - Asus put such an image
on some Eee PCs, then switched to less successful “island” options.

gjf, 2011-01-11
@gjf

IMHO the wireless keyboard is convenient only for media centers. The mouse must be wireless, because the rubbing of the contact at the connection point is sick of it. I have a version with cheers for charging - convenient and in which case you can always use it.
Regarding the form factor - to each his own, I will not even argue. I can’t work on “two-piece” keyboards in any way (Beholder gave an example above) - but my friend got used to it so much in a month that he can no longer work with the usual one. The same goes for slims and classics.
It’s really easy when buying smsck to sit down at the table and try to print - if it’s convenient, then you should take it without hesitation.
I’ll tell you from myself - I’ve already tried a dozen models and felt the complete uselessness of additional media keys: they are platform-specific, because they require the installation of additional software, which is not much - but it eats resources, the implementation of the same sound level change is buggy in a number of applications, calling the media player calls the wrong media player at all, and besides, there were very rarely cases of a real need to dub standard functions on a system key. By the way, the standard windoiws assignment of hotkeys to a shortcut completely saves the Father of Russian Democracy :)