you wouldn't tolerate headphones that weren't designed to fit the shape of
your head or a chair that wasn't designed to comfortably hold your ass so
why then would you use a keyboard that wasn't designed to perfectly match the
shape of your hands well Kinesis doesn't
think that you should meet the freaky
decky Advantage 2 a keyboard that aims
to put ergonomics first without
sacrificing productivity but at a bank breaking
$350 is there any reason for you to use
one of these unless your doctor says you have to Let's fingure It
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advantage 2 is bound to twist some necks
it seems that in Kinesis is quest to make it all about the best ergonomic
experience for your hands they forgot about your eyes their
premium model has got this subjectively
awful attempt at a brushed looking gray
and black finish that they call graphite
the LED indicators and the label are inexplicably off center the USB cable is
unsleeved and this might seem like a nitpicky thing at this point but the
devices overall low weight and plastic
construction contribute to a less premium first impression than the price
tag would suggest but Beauty can be more than skin
deep there is absolutely no deck Flex
the bottom feet keep it in place on your desk you can connect a foot pedal to it
and all the switches are genuine
mechanical Cherry MX or
MLS okay fine so the build quality is
good but let's stop footing around and address the elephant in the room why
does it look like that well the
advantage 2's layout is designed to mitigate the primary stresses that
typing on a conventional keyboard imposes on the body so to achieve this
they split the board into two key Wells
one for each hand if you have more than two hands this is not the ergonomic
keyboard for you # sorry not sorry
anyway this split positions the user's
hands closer to shoulder width apart
reducing something called all deviation which occurs when your wrists
are bent outward next they made the key Wells
concave to keep your wrists straight and
sloped to keep your hands from sitting completely pronated this increases blood
circulation in your forearms and there are more customizations the keycaps
themselves are at varying Heights so that your middle finger won't be
overarched and your pinky can actually reach stuff and the control keys that
your weak ass little finger would normally be responsible for have been
offloaded to these clusters where your thumbs can straight up do work instead
of sitting on the bench it's all sounds
like sensible stuff but like stuff that
nobody seems to have thought of right here let's drop another ergonomic bomb
the number pad has been embedded as a secondary function in the right key well
in an effort to reduce the board's overall footprint so you don't overreach
to operate the mouse straining the neck and
shoulders this all comes together then to make the advantage to a very
comfortable keyboard one of our new writers James has actually been using it
nonstop for 2 weeks without any need for
shaking out the wrists or any kind of fatigue whatsoever I love it so
ergonomic AF but that doesn't mean that those two
weeks were completely painless contrary
to kin's bold statement here this thing
has a steep learning curve in theory I
see their point but while at first
glance it looks like all the letters are in their usual places hold on Hardcore
typists May cringe at this but the vast majority of the people at our office
actually use their index finger to type the letter c this is possible on a
regular quiry layout because the rows are staggered but on the advantage two
the keys are arranged in vertical columns so back to my point then if you
were already a perfect by the book
typist the transition would probably be
fairly easy but if you also have to unlearn some nasty habits at the same
time like using the wrong hand for the b key then your transition will likely be
much slower another consequence of the
concave design is that the keys are a bit closer to each other which again
seems legit for both speed and stamina but my God you have no idea how easy it
is to overreach when trying to type a comma or a period and furthermore a
large part of keyboard productivity has to do with non- typing key strokes
talking about hot Keys talking about home and end talking about the arrows
and remapping the muscle memory that you've built up for these more advanced
actions takes a lot longer the new way
may be superior to the old way like being able to copy paste now without
leaving the home row but that doesn't mean that you're not going to have the
urge to smash every time a misclick on
the now nearby Arrow key sends your cursor flying off the page
so while some things are straight up awesome like having backspace and delete
front and center other things like not having a space bar on the left side are
not and what about Gamers all right well
I'll tell you about Gamers every key on this keyboard is remappable without the
use of any software you heard me this keyboard has a whole Suite of badass
onboard options that make it pretty Alpha even without the fancy ergonomic
layout you can store multiple layout profiles and macros on the keyboard
itself so they work on any machine you plug into like really any machine that
supports USB keyboards is compatible and your layouts and macros are saved as txt
files editable and emailable by you
macros can be over 200 keystrokes long and you can even change the speed at
which they get executed not bad but should you buy this keyboard
well the advantage to isn't perfect it's
really pricey and honestly I wish the number pad was in the middle instead of
making me press this button and me what
is that sound even but if improved
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