Buy Kinesis Advantage Ergonomic Contoured Keyboard USB - BlackKinesis Advantage Ergonomic Contoured Keyboard USB - Black Product Description:
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The Kinesis® FreestyleTM adjustable split keyboard is a breakthrough in ergonomic design. Created with input from ergonomists and health professionals, the Freestyle adapts to the specific needs of each user, minimizing awkward postures, while providing a stylish accent to any workstation. Featuring simple, sturdy adjustment mechanisms the Freestyle is intuitive to configure and use. Interchangable accessories provide features never before available from just one keyboard design - the Freestyle Solo™. Four optional accessory packages, the Freestyle Incline™, Freestyle VIP™, Freestyle V3™ and Freestyle Ascent™ Multi-Tent™ can be purchased to provide additional capabilities. These five configurations allow the user to choose features that offer complete separation, adjustable front splay, adjustable or fixed tenting, with or without integrated and removable, padded palm supports. Other unique features of the Solo keyboard include driverless hot keys for mouse intensive actions, an embedded 10-key (PC only), low-profile design to promote neutral wrist posture, a Pivot Tether™ connecting the two keying modules together and quiet, tactile key switches
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Recommended
By Síog
A great ergonomic keyboard.The keys are placed on either side of the keyboard in a curved hollow (as you can see from the photo), which means your hands are roughly shoulder-length apart when typing, which feels very natural. The keys feel nice when pressed, they're not too hard or too soft. The keys are easily reachable from one another, which means your fingers don't move around a lot when you're typing.The key layout differs slightly from a standard keyboard, but only took me a week or so to adjust to. It has the ability to re-map keys (the Windows key requires more than one keypress, so I remapped "Alt Gr" to the Windows key), as well as to program macros (I haven't used the latter feature).I've had mine for two years, and no longer get shoulder pain when typing. I also suffer from occasional wrist pain, and this hasn't eliminated that. All the same, I'd recommend it, especially for those with shoulder pain.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Great keyboard!
By David Stephens
I got one of these about 18 months ago, luckily I managed to convince my company it'd be a good idea for them to buy me one. I'd been suffering from really achey knuckles after prolonged keyboard use - I work in IT as a software developer, so had it got worse it could have been a career-ender.Positives:- No more achey knuckles, which means my career can continue. Win!- I can type something in the region of 15% faster when using the Kinesis. This will be partially due to typing "properly" (ie correct fingers on correct keys rather than the self taught touch-typing hackery I was doing previously), but it's also down to the quality of the switches underneath the keys.- Keys are re-mappable, should you want to move things around.- Acts as a good deterrent to stop people using your PC when you're away from the office...Negatives:- The rubbery F-keys are a bit crap, and not touch-typeable. Rather bizarrely the manual says "you shouldn't touch-type F-keys" which seems a bit like an excuse for crappy F-key design, but whatever, I don't use them that often so not a major issue. If you're a serial F-keyer, you may want to consider this before taking the plunge.- My hands ached a fair bit when I first started using the Kinesis - according to the manual this is normal and clears up after a week or so - and it was right.- The palm pads that come with it look gross after 6 months of use, but it is possible to replace them. I actually took them off and never bothered to replace them.- The black colour really shows up the scuzz that you drop into/onto your keyboard. Make sure you have one of those 1990's desk hoovers to clean it out every so often otherwise you might get known around the office as "Dirty Keyboard Dave".- Why isn't the Kinesis Advantage label in the middle, or on the edge out of the way? And why is it right near where your hands rest, so that it collects various hand-related scuzz?I've read other reviews on here of people complaining about the price - whilst I didn't pay for mine myself I've since bought a second one for home. £250-300 is not really a lot to pay if you factor in that you can't work without it - seems like a no-brainer to me?!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.Great for those with RSI but numerous frustrating flaws
By Mr. James Pike
After suffering from RSI for years and it interfering with my ability to work this keyboard was a lifesaver. I can finally go back to 10 hour code marathons (with sensible regular breaks of course) without screwing my wrist up so badly I can't type the next day.However there are a number of unfortunate flaws with this keyboard:1. Despite switching caps-lock with control (surely common amongst ergonomic users) the caps lock will still occasionally switch on! Then the only way you can turn it off is by plugging the keyboard out and in.2. The keyboard is programmable with macros (which are essential to get access to keys that by default require two presses) but get used to re-entering them, it randomly forgets them.3. The keyboard randomly stops working altogether, again I have to plug it out and in to get it working again.4. The function keys and escape key are rubbery and very poor quality.5. I've had to use masking tape to tape my keyboard wire to the body due to it constantly reconnecting. I believe this is due to a heavy cylinder (a USB power transformer or something) about 10cm along the USB wire that connects to the keyboard body. This would probably be less of an issue with those who use a desk rather than a lap desk (to allow the transformer to rest on a surface and thus not tug at the body).This is a great keyboard, you just have to get used to unplugging it and plugging it back in (I'd say I have to do it about 5 times per day). I suggest using masking tape to fix the USB cable to the body before using it firsts, else you may risk damaging your very expensive keyboard within the first few months of owning it.If it weren't for this being the best ergonomic keyboard I would certainly be searching for one without all the annoying flaws, but after trying pretty much every sub-£300 keyboard on the market I realise I'm stuck with this one flaws and all.
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