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33% |
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41% |
[ 10 ] |
| Somewhere between 3 and 6 |
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20% |
[ 5 ] |
| I'm a keyboard's worst nightmare!!! |
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4% |
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PingBad
Guru
Joined: 05 Feb 2005
Posts: 2010
Location: New Zealand
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 Posted: May 11, 2005 12:26pm Post subject: How about your keyboards? |
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As a non-irc related discussion (altho, it is in a way related). With all your typing peeps, how do your keyboards survive?
I'm curious though, in the last 12 months, how many keyboards have died at your fingertips? With these multi-parapgraphed postings that I've seen lately (nothing short of essays, IMO) -- I wouldn't be surprised if there are casualties of typing.
I admit though, I've gone through about 5 keyboards with my typing (programming included) |
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[DiMENSiON]
Eleet
Joined: 06 Sep 2003
Posts: 621
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this keyboard i stole from a win95 machine, is now on my 'custom' box and it's still going strong although i've got 3 or 4 spares just in case.. However i did spill coke all over my laptops keyboard, i'd rather not talk about that though  |
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JohnB
Idler
Joined: 05 Dec 2003
Posts: 314
Location: Manchester, UK
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| Posted: May 11, 2005 12:37pm Post subject: |
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| [DiMENSiON] wrote: | | However i did spill coke all over my laptops keyboard, i'd rather not talk about that though |
Lol, ill never forget that 
My keyboards dont last long...im forever spilling my drink all over them...this is like my 5th in 2 years  |
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DemonCowboy
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| Posted: May 11, 2005 12:41pm Post subject: |
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| well i'm on my 4th personally but then again i eat and drink at my PC too and keyboards don't like budweiser as much as i do apparently....lmao |
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[DiMENSiON]
Eleet
Joined: 06 Sep 2003
Posts: 621
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:-| do you remember that JohnB, soo not funny ¬_¬ .. you can buy me a new laptop Johnny  |
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PingBad
Guru
Joined: 05 Feb 2005
Posts: 2010
Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: May 11, 2005 12:56pm Post subject: |
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| you always managed to scare if not bewilder me, DC, still dunno how you manage |
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JohnB
Idler
Joined: 05 Dec 2003
Posts: 314
Location: Manchester, UK
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| Posted: May 11, 2005 1:06pm Post subject: |
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| [DiMENSiON] wrote: | | :-| do you remember that JohnB, soo not funny ¬_¬ .. you can buy me a new laptop Johnny |
We'll see before your birthday |
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Stefano
Eleet
Joined: 03 Apr 2005
Posts: 524
Location: Beirut
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| Posted: May 11, 2005 1:22pm Post subject: |
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i hate QWERTY keyboards.. anglosaxon shit lol
i love more the AZERTY the french one. but i cant find it in here in egypt.
actually the azerty is nice because to make é ê è u dont need to type each time the alt 130 etc sucks ;@ |
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Roku
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Joined: 18 Apr 2005
Posts: 92
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| Posted: May 11, 2005 1:58pm Post subject: |
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| Stefano wrote: | | i hate QWERTY keyboards.. anglosaxon shit lol |
One mans trash is anothers treasure. QWERTY kb's have their use, especially for those that don't need/use AZERTY keys.
Not sure what the point of this poll/thread is, after all the more kb's you break the more you buy. That's not really a fact that I would be proud of honestly. I use my keyboard as much as anyone else and mine last years (usually get replaced when the letters on the keys wear off). Perhaps it's that I don't bang on it nor store drinks near it, who knows.
My kb lasts longer than my PC's plus since I custom build PC's I don't meet any of the options in the poll. |
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angelic
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Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Posts: 148
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| Posted: May 11, 2005 2:21pm Post subject: |
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I still have my first keyboard as a spare.
BUT
I decided to buy myself a new wireless kb and mouse, so off i went and i managed to find a pink one got it home and it words fine for the few few days, then started to bugger up intermittently, missing letters and what not. Anyways, i tend not to keep reciepts so i just went and got another, and the same thing started to happen.
This is my forth wireless kb and mouse set (optical mouse) and i finally figured out it only does it when i use my cell phone near it |
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| Posted: May 11, 2005 2:53pm Post subject: |
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| my old keyboards never lasted more 2 months mostly spilled drink were the death of them until i picked up a indestructible(supposedly),flexible, washable keyboard best $35 bucks i ever spent its lasted 2 yrs so far |
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phrozen77
Newbie
Joined: 13 Jul 2004
Posts: 82
Location: There!! A 3-headed monkey, right behind you!
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| Posted: May 11, 2005 2:54pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | This is my forth wireless kb and mouse set (optical mouse) and i finally figured out it only does it when i use my cell phone near it Wink |
hehe 
well, i got like my 4th or 5th one now, but only because most of my old ones got thrown away / sold with their corresponding computers, not because they were broken...
the one i actually type with is also ~3 years old and no problems so far, even since i do play some games every now and then and also dont hesitate to really hit it hard with my fist when someone gives me the 123234th headshot in a row
imho, its all about quality.. you get what you pay for
i for one almost always used cherry-keyboards [1] and never regreted it, maybe paying some extra money and going without gimmicks like fancy illumination and whatnot.
[1] http://www.cherry.de/english/index_en.htm |
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Roku
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Joined: 18 Apr 2005
Posts: 92
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| Posted: May 11, 2005 3:08pm Post subject: |
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imho, its all about quality.. you get what you pay for
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$10 US 5 years ago |
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dizdaz89
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Joined: 17 Jan 2004
Posts: 20
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| Posted: May 11, 2005 8:15pm Post subject: |
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| I still have the same one from a few years back. I don't eat or drink around my computer so that might have something to do with it. I still have the one from around 6 or 7 years ago too, not sure if it fully works though. |
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w00t
Eleet
Joined: 09 Jun 2004
Posts: 699
Location: Nowra, Australia
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| Posted: May 11, 2005 9:57pm Post subject: |
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Personally - i've gone through 3.
One didn't survive me cleaning it
One got soup spilt alllll over it, and randomly started swapping keys around (:/)
The third just gradually died over time (it was my first keyboard, and still used the pre-ps2 connecter RIP!).
I wanna try a dvorak keyboard :p |
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