   Gaming Keyboard or Ergonomic Keyboard?
  Not too long ago, there was an incedent where someone pounded on my keyboard, and now some of my keys don't work very well (they must be pressed more than once at times to work). I was looking at potential replacements online and was dissapointed to see there weren't many high quality wireless keyboards that didn't come with a mouse. However I came across two (corded, sadly) keyboards that look quite nice: The Logitech G15 ("gaming" keyboard) and the MS Natural 4000 (ergonomic).From what I've read, while the Logitech has USB ports, a crazy cool display LCD, sweet marco keys, and comes with an SDK, the MS keyboard is super comfortable and easy on your hands. Also, the Logitech keyboard is quite a bit pricier ($69!!! comared to $44)I was wondering how comfortable the logitech keyboard was, especially when compared with the Naturals, and it the features on it are really as cool as they seem. I also would like to know if the Naturals keyboards are really as great as people say. Thank you in advance for wasting your time helping me decide what to buy.   
  Oddly enuff, I was planning on making a post about this sort of thing soon as I've recently got a MS Natural 4000 and frankly, if my wrists would talk they would be thanking me [grin]I've been using a computer for many many hours a day for the past 13 years or so, all of them standard keyboards and the other week this finally caught up with me as I started to get a burning pain in my left hand when typing for ages and it would take a few days of low usage to go away again.On friday I got this keyboard and ever since then I've been able to type for ages without any pain, in fact what pain I had continues to decrease despite spending all of yesterday coding [smile]You might have to retrain yourself to type, I've had a few problems as I used to cross hands when typing which doesn't work with a split keyboard [wink] and I've made more typos while I get used to the key position changes, however its worth the hastle and when I get a flow going I can type a bit faster than I could before [smile]Honesly, I'd say to anyone here who types alot you should really get one of these keyboard, it'll probably save you alot of wrist problems in the long run and I wish I'd got one sooner myself.   ;  I have the Microsoft natural keyboard (4000).  It's quite comfortable and pretty sleek looking.  My only gripe is that it's one of those keyboards on which the keys are a little 'hard' to press - there's a very slight difference in how much effort you must use to press the keys down than on other keyboards.  This is known to bother some people.I can't say anything about the Logitech keyboard, as I have never used it, but, regardless, I think it will all boil down to this: If you spend a great deal of time typing, or you sometimes find typing uncomfortable on a normal keyboard, get the ergonomic keyboard.  If you don't, and gaming is important enough to you to warrant a $60+ price tag (make sure that its features are really worth the money), get the Logitech.[EDIT] - I should mention - Much like phantom, my wrists started giving me trouble if I had to type for long periods of time.  I decided to spend the money on a nice pair of ergonomic keyboards (one for work and one for home), and my wrists have stopped hurting ever since.  They are, as my co-worker said, "Career Savers", if your wrists start giving you grief.   ;  I really like my new ergonomic keyboard. Its very easy to type with, and I like how my wrists no longer have as much pain. The only thing is I can no longer type on other keyboards without the ergonomic design, without making quite a few mistakes. [grin]   ;  Alright, I think I'll go with the MS Natural, mainly due to the price, but not developing wrist problems is a factor too. Thanks.   ;  Hmmm... My wrists can start hurting from typing too much too... So these natural keyboards really work?   ;Quote:Original post by python_regiousHmmm... My wrists can start hurting from typing too much too... So these natural keyboards really work?Yes, they really do, got mine friday and spend friday night and saturday coding and typing loads, normally I'd have wrists of fire, but now no pain at all and coding/typing is much more enjoyable [smile]You just have to get past the adjustment phase of having a new layout to work with [smile]   