just when you think you've reviewed every organ ama keyboard on the planet a
new company with the name like truly ergonomic launches something like this
the cleave keyboard apparently the world's most comfortable keyboard but
honestly there's lots of comfortable keyboards out there for me it's about
meeting that minimum organ Amma creche hold while also having a decent layout
that doesn't suck to use looking at the box it says it uses optical switches and
the word new here to me implies that they might be proprietary thumbs with a
combined peak at puller and p-switch puller board itself is pretty low
profile with very little deck flex thanks to the aluminum faceplate
although I would have liked to have seen a braided cable it's got an integrated
wrist rest that's firm yet comfortable and doesn't act like a fuzz magnet
really nice actually the best thing about this board though is the layout I
like urgh anomic keyboards that use on clusters because then your strongest
digits can do most of the work instead of using your weak pinky finger for
things like backspace which frankly doesn't make a lot of sense by default
on these large buttons you've got to space bars backspace delete and enter
but you can reprogram all the keys to your liking you know in case you don't
see yourself ever getting used to these dedicated copy-paste and undo keys in
some ways the layout is similar to the ERG adopt which we reviewed on ltte but
unlike that board this one has the full suite of F keys all the bracket and
slash keys over here and the arrow keys are all in one place which in my opinion
is way more usable than splitting them up you can type on this thing pretty
normally except oh my god they made the caps lock key into another control key
who is asking for this so where's caps lock it's up here now
that's way too far for how often I use it and now instead I have two control
keys right next to each other how is that helpful the switches themselves
feel ok key stability is average at best
which is surprising given the stem has a box design because usually switches like
that are more stable the switch itself does say truly ergonomic on it and
apparently these optical switches are removable if you can manage to pull it
up
look I bent the key cap practically
speaking you're not likely to swap the keys out anyway because regular
mechanical key switches aren't compatible with this board it is available with their version of Blues
Browns and reds though though in theory you could mix and match or replace a
switch if one dies except they don't give you any extras in the box the LED
backlight can be adjusted through 10 brightness levels and a profiles which
basically changes which keys are lit up and which are not and each of these profiles can be
customized on top of that you've also got several effects you can cycle
through and adjust the speed up so overall then this is a pretty awesome
ergonomic keyboard it's got a split design and compact layout to reduce
ulnar deviation and shoulder pain without losing so many keys that your
productivity suffers and it's priced at 300 US dollars which while being a lot
for a keyboard is actually about normal for as ergonomic keyboards go even if
the optical switches aren't going to win any award so thanks for watching short
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