For my daily drivers I have a pair of Kinesis Advantage 2’s, purchased in 2007, still kicking.
A couple of years ago I hit up their email support with what I thought was a stuck key. They (correctly) diagnosed it as a failing switch, helped me identify another that was failing, they figured out that I’m handy with a soldering iron, and mailed me a handful of new switches and other swag free of charge.
$370/ea 18 years ago, and I’m pretty sure they MSRP for the same price today.
Nearly all of the labels have worn off of the keys. I never mounted the fabric palm pads, and the plastic palm areas are now mirror polished from use. I also modded them both with a Thinkpad style nub mouse.
Things I’d change, but given I’m pretty good at modding and haven’t done them they are relatively minor:
- Less clicky switches for the one I take to work. I already tend to pound the keys, and I make a noticable racket on the rare occasions I’m in the office.
- USB-C connections, including PD on the built in hub
- Qi2 wireless charging in the blank gap in the middle
- A smarter programmable controller like the the nice!nanos on my corne
I’m seriously considering a DataHand-like keeb like the Svalboard
Impressive
Keycron Q10 Max. I paid 180€. Still new to me but nice so far.
I spent roughly 300 EUR. Self built.
- Bluetooth
- Split
- Concave
- Ortho
$40, Red Dragon, and it came with a mouse pad, mouse, and headset.
The mouse is super basic and the headset was garbage, but the keyboard is the same quality and tactile-ness as the Corsair K70 I used to have, and that thing was like close to $200.
I have a red dragon too, but it no longer works because some of the keys sometimes fail to register
Thanks, their keypad looks good
$120 keyboard from HyperX (before they got bought by HP).
$120 is the limit of my budget for a keyboard. That being said, I am never going to membrane keyboards (if I can help it).
I got mine for $3 (I bought it at the thrift store)
$250 realforce r2 topre switches 55g
Currently using a Keychron Q5, paid about $230.
Damn. I got my K5 Pro on sale for $125 (IIRC). But I love it, and would pay more if I needed to in the future.
$80. It’s that 8bitdo C64-style one. I am a big fan. Love the feel of the box white v2 switches combined with spherical keycaps.
$35. Got one for home and one for work.
What model is it? Where did you get it?
It’s an EagleTec ET-KG010-N.
Can’t remember where I bought it from, but I got em both like 8 years ago. Both still work great.
$120, Wireless Varmilo. Superb keyboard, except that the super key is waaaay too difficult to reach.
60 or 70€. Cherry MX Board 1.0 with browns
It’s a Varmilo keyboard that I paid about $100 for, got a good black friday deal on it.
About €500, but it’s a self built charybdis paid for by work :D
Nice :D
How’d you get the paid for work part?
Well I already had gotten myself another ergonomic keyboard before (kyria v1) because my wrists would hurt when using a “normal” keyboard, and I didn’t want to drag it around all the time out of fear that it might break.
I set my eyes on the charybdis for the next build and realised that I would need it more in the office than at home so I asked whether it could be a business expense, and they approved so long as I could give them the receipts :).
Nice! What sort of company do you work for uoud say? Small / large / start up / middle tier?
Might try the same if I ever need to go to office :p
Definitely large, over 60k employees. But honestly it shouldn’t really matter as, at least for me, it was basically a requirement for me to get any work done.
OK but then it’s owned by the business then in this case. Also fine… If you already have one at home.
Well technically true, but they’re gonna let me keep it anyway because let’s be real, who else wants a charybdis?
Ducky 10keyless. Bought over 10 years ago for like $150
