Evoluent Mouse-Friendly Keyboard - Keyboard - USB - silver black
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(5 out of 5)Nice Keyboard especially for games which uses the number pad
I bought this keyboard especially for Silent Hunter 4 where you use the + and - keys for time compression and the other keys on the numpad for view shots. I use the right hand for the mouse and the left hand for the numpad keys. It works great with this game. It also has a web button and an email button which work great! The soft touch butttons are nice. However, people with big hands might find this keyboard alittle cramped for their fingers.
(5 out of 5)Very nice keyboard, left hand number pad good with CAD
In the past I made my own left hand keyboard layout by using a laptop USB number pad on left side of my keyboard. This keyboard has a nice touch and takes up less space. I do CAD work and operate the keyboard with my left hand and the mouse with the right.
(5 out of 5)Brings balance to your desktop
I bought the purple version of this keyboard elsewhere. I use a Mac at work and the standard Mac keyboard is quite wide. I was having problems with my wrist and shoulder because I'd have to reach out so far to the right to keep my mouse from hitting the keyboard. I ended up having to move the keyboard to the left, mouse a little, then move the keyboard back to the right and type. It was ridiculously un-ergonomic.
I started looking for a left-handed keyboard but the ones I found on most ergonomic sites were more than $100 and just as wide and clunky as the one I wanted to replace. When I found this keyboard, I ordered it at once and I've been enjoying it since I got it.
First, the keyboard uses a standard USB port, so it can be used on both PC and Mac computers. The keyboard is optimized for Windows and features special keys at the top of the keyboard for e-mail and media player functions. It also has the standard key with the Windows flag to bring up the Start menu. On the Mac, most of these functions do nothing. You have to go into the Mac OS System Preferences to have it read the keyboard, but that works just fine. The only thing I've noticed is that the NumLock LED doesn't light up, but I don't know if that is a Mac thing or something with the keyboard -- but the NumLock key does work.
Second, the keyboard is small and light-weight. It is flatter than the Mac keyboard, and that's been a plus for me. I find that the flatter surface means my wrists are not bent so much, and that has relieved some of the issues I was having with carpal tunnel syndrome.
Third, the keys seem more like those on a laptop computer than a regular keyboard. At first I thought this was cheapness, but after a couple of hours I really fell in love with the feel of this keyboard. It takes a fairly soft touch and it does click, but it isn't as loud as my old keyboard.
The only caveat I can think of is that it takes a bit of time to get used to using the keypad on the left. But that's actually a good thing because I don't have to take my right hand off the mouse to use it. After all, when you have two hands, doesn't it make sense to use both of them?
(4 out of 5)Good solution but for one little thing
I bought this because of arm and neck strain from many hours of intensive keyboarding and mousing during magazine production.
This keyboard does allow a far more natural working position with the mouse and its nice and low so you don't have to lift the wrists much.
One thing that drove me crazy was the unwanted 'feature' of the extra delete key right between the spacebar and the alt(pc)/command(mac) key. Its way to easy to delete work if you are used to using keyboard commands in say photoshop or indesign. This cost me a lot of work till I pulled the key off with a screwdriver and put in a blank piece of rubber.
I've now gone for an apple wireless keyboard with no numeric keypad as it sits even lower. Apart from the extra delete key the Evoluent keyboard is a fine product though, I really cant understand why everyone puts up with the standard keyboards.
(4 out of 5)basic keyboard, good price for lefthanded keypad
There's nothing fancy here, but if you need a lefthanded number keypad, I haven't found anything even close to this price. I wanted to reduce the reach to my mouse and this product does that. Good tactile feel and no misskeys so far. It's compact, but has a standard spread between keys.