10 Worst PC Keyboards
* eSeong Network User Reviews *
* ) This is nothing more than a thinly veiled attack on everything not PC or Mac. Yes, the IBM PC Jr is there, but that is every PC users whipping boy. There were good reasons for some machines having many uses on keyboards. Why not point out the PCs history of bad keyboard layout? Backspace on the left of the keyboard? How about the bad keyboard layout that has survived in both the PC and Mac over the years? The Delete key not situated to the right of the Backspace key? The Return/Enter key smaler than one of the two shift keys even though it is the third most used key? The Tab key used to switch text fields when the Return/Enter key works perfectly (and has done on many dead machines)? The PCs insistance on having a disjoint between the Capslock and Numlock keys and their LEDs? Apple has not been the only manufaturer in the past who could fit an LED into the keys themselves.
How about some real improvements? I have been asking for a decade now for a keyboard with LED/LCD keys that will not wear out with use, that can be set up to show custom key usage and will change to the Alt and Shift usage when Alt and Shift are depressed. The technology has been there for a very long time now, yet we have to put up with keyboards that would not be out of place in 1912.
Do not throw stones when your own house is not made of safety glass.
* ) There have indeed been many bad keyboards, before it settled down to the "standards" that we have today.
A major remaining flaw is the Caps Lock key. Only useful to people who don't understand the etiquette of email.
And the Insert key: "Get me into trouble immediately!"
And of course the cryptic obsolete markings on the standard windows keyboard. What is "Pause" or "Scroll Lock" now?
Above all we should drop QWERTY and go to that other layout.
I liked the VT-52 keyboard the best. Very fast. Moving to the VT-100 was traumatic.
* ) How about a modern nightmare keyboard... Has anyone tried Logitech's modern looking, very pretty, and grossly overpriced DiNovo keyboard set? Between them, the keyboard and number pad use six AA batteries, which don't last very long. The included Bluetooth drivers, which have to be installed for the system to recognize the keyboard, are incredibly intrusive, and want to control much of the computer hardware and software which have nothing to do with the keyboard, and in my experience, conflicts with numerous programs and devices, causing crashes, programs stalling or acting erratically, etc. The software is almost like a virus, and is very difficult to completely remove from the system.
* ) This is nothing more than a thinly veiled attack on everything not PC or Mac. Yes, the IBM PC Jr is there, but that is every PC users whipping boy. There were good reasons for some machines having many uses on keyboards. Why not point out the PCs history of bad keyboard layout? Backspace on the left of the keyboard? How about the bad keyboard layout that has survived in both the PC and Mac over the years? The Delete key not situated to the right of the Backspace key? The Return/Enter key smaler than one of the two shift keys even though it is the third most used key? The Tab key used to switch text fields when the Return/Enter key works perfectly (and has done on many dead machines)? The PCs insistance on having a disjoint between the Capslock and Numlock keys and their LEDs? Apple has not been the only manufaturer in the past who could fit an LED into the keys themselves.
How about some real improvements? I have been asking for a decade now for a keyboard with LED/LCD keys that will not wear out with use, that can be set up to show custom key usage and will change to the Alt and Shift usage when Alt and Shift are depressed. The technology has been there for a very long time now, yet we have to put up with keyboards that would not be out of place in 1912.
Do not throw stones when your own house is not made of safety glass.
* ) There have indeed been many bad keyboards, before it settled down to the "standards" that we have today.
A major remaining flaw is the Caps Lock key. Only useful to people who don't understand the etiquette of email.
And the Insert key: "Get me into trouble immediately!"
And of course the cryptic obsolete markings on the standard windows keyboard. What is "Pause" or "Scroll Lock" now?
Above all we should drop QWERTY and go to that other layout.
I liked the VT-52 keyboard the best. Very fast. Moving to the VT-100 was traumatic.
* ) How about a modern nightmare keyboard... Has anyone tried Logitech's modern looking, very pretty, and grossly overpriced DiNovo keyboard set? Between them, the keyboard and number pad use six AA batteries, which don't last very long. The included Bluetooth drivers, which have to be installed for the system to recognize the keyboard, are incredibly intrusive, and want to control much of the computer hardware and software which have nothing to do with the keyboard, and in my experience, conflicts with numerous programs and devices, causing crashes, programs stalling or acting erratically, etc. The software is almost like a virus, and is very difficult to completely remove from the system.
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