Why the Amazon Basics Keyboard Is My Favorite Keyboard

Re:Why the Amazon Basics Keyboard Is My Favorite Keyboard by wilsonnb3 on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @12:44PM (#20868398)

For what it's worth there are many cheaper options that would work for you.

For anyone else looking to reduce the distance between mousepad and keyboard, this size is usually called 84-key, 75%, or 80%. They have all of the keys that a tenkeyless has but laid out in such a way that the keyboard is significantly less wide.

this one is relatively cheap (they used to sell an even cheaper one that I currently own, which has off brand switched instead of cherry mx)

https://www.amazon.com/DREVO-Excalibur-Mechanical-Keyboard-S...

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Re:Why the Amazon Basics Keyboard Is My Favorite Keyboard by whitehouse3 on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @01:58PM (#20869233)

Thank you for this. I haven't scanned the market lately so I entirely missed this new crop of smaller boards.

Nomenclature was the big hurdle I had to clear when searching for a keyboard. I didn't know what these boards were called until a fellow engineer introduced me.

I'm sure "84-key" will be a helpful keyword to someone else reading this thread.

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