If you’re a Mac user and spend more than a few hours typing each week, give yourself a gift.
Both are exponential improvements over pretty much any other keyboard on the planet. Why wasn’t I using a mechanical switch keyboard for my Mac? Quick research revealed that two models stand out. This got me thinking recently, when I added a third display to my desk and was forced to begin using my MacBook Air in closed clamshell mode and needed a new Mac compact keyboard. It’s all I’ll use now on my Windows machine. As soon as the company began producing a model with lettered keys, I jumped on the opportunity.
While typing special characters for complex passwords occasionally proved problematic, the return to using a mechanical switch keyboard reminded me what I’d been missing. You became a better typist, because you were forced to memorize the keys - that was the mindset. Then I was assigned responsibility for testing a Das Keyboard, which (at the time) didn’t even feature lettering on the keys. Although I’d grown up using IBM’s famed Modem F keyboards, prized for the solid tactile sensation and confirming corresponding audible click each keystroke generates, like most everyone else, I’d become content typing on the low cost, poor quality, mushy-feeling keyboards OEM manufacturers packaged with Windows workstations. TechRepublic is responsible for my inadvertent education. But were you to ever use one of two awe-inspiring alternatives, you would likely find yourself wondering how you ever managed without such an upgrade. At $69 and $49, respectively, they’re also competitively priced. Why not invest in a keyboard that makes you a better typist and helps you work more efficiently?Īpple’s default keyboards - whether the compact version that requires 24% less space or the wired version that includes a numeric keypad - both look good and enable accurate, crisp typing. Yet, most Mac users type millions of keystrokes on these devices. They’re frequently neglected, rarely cleaned, occasionally dropped, and the recipient of stray spills. They collect crumbs, dirt, dust, and other debris. While a default Apple wireless keyboard shames its typical basic Windows counterpart, optional upgrades vastly improve the experience. The best keyboards for Mac users aren’t Apple’s
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