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you wouldn't tolerate headphones that weren't designed to fit the shape of

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your head or a chair that wasn't designed to comfortably hold your ass so

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why then would you use a keyboard that wasn't designed to perfectly match the

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shape of your hands well Kinesis doesn't

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think that you should meet the freaky

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decky Advantage 2 a keyboard that aims

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to put ergonomics first without

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sacrificing productivity but at a bank breaking

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$350 is there any reason for you to use

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one of these unless your doctor says you have to Let's fingure It

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Out rose Will's cullinan midtower ATX

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case features tempered glass panels for a sleep aesthetic with ample expansion

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check it out at the link below so there is no doubt that the

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advantage 2 is bound to twist some necks

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it seems that in Kinesis is quest to make it all about the best ergonomic

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experience for your hands they forgot about your eyes their

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premium model has got this subjectively

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awful attempt at a brushed looking gray

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and black finish that they call graphite

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the LED indicators and the label are inexplicably off center the USB cable is

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unsleeved and this might seem like a nitpicky thing at this point but the

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devices overall low weight and plastic

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construction contribute to a less premium first impression than the price

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tag would suggest but Beauty can be more than skin

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deep there is absolutely no deck Flex

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the bottom feet keep it in place on your desk you can connect a foot pedal to it

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and all the switches are genuine

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mechanical Cherry MX or

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MLS okay fine so the build quality is

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good but let's stop footing around and address the elephant in the room why

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does it look like that well the

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advantage 2's layout is designed to mitigate the primary stresses that

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typing on a conventional keyboard imposes on the body so to achieve this

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they split the board into two key Wells

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one for each hand if you have more than two hands this is not the ergonomic

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keyboard for you # sorry not sorry

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anyway this split positions the user's

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hands closer to shoulder width apart

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reducing something called all deviation which occurs when your wrists

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are bent outward next they made the key Wells

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concave to keep your wrists straight and

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sloped to keep your hands from sitting completely pronated this increases blood

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circulation in your forearms and there are more customizations the keycaps

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themselves are at varying Heights so that your middle finger won't be

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overarched and your pinky can actually reach stuff and the control keys that

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your weak ass little finger would normally be responsible for have been

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offloaded to these clusters where your thumbs can straight up do work instead

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of sitting on the bench it's all sounds

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like sensible stuff but like stuff that

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nobody seems to have thought of right here let's drop another ergonomic bomb

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the number pad has been embedded as a secondary function in the right key well

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in an effort to reduce the board's overall footprint so you don't overreach

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to operate the mouse straining the neck and

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shoulders this all comes together then to make the advantage to a very

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comfortable keyboard one of our new writers James has actually been using it

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nonstop for 2 weeks without any need for

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shaking out the wrists or any kind of fatigue whatsoever I love it so

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ergonomic AF but that doesn't mean that those two

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weeks were completely painless contrary

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to kin's bold statement here this thing

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has a steep learning curve in theory I

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see their point but while at first

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glance it looks like all the letters are in their usual places hold on Hardcore

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typists May cringe at this but the vast majority of the people at our office

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actually use their index finger to type the letter c this is possible on a

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regular quiry layout because the rows are staggered but on the advantage two

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the keys are arranged in vertical columns so back to my point then if you

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were already a perfect by the book

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typist the transition would probably be

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fairly easy but if you also have to unlearn some nasty habits at the same

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time like using the wrong hand for the b key then your transition will likely be

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much slower another consequence of the

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concave design is that the keys are a bit closer to each other which again

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seems legit for both speed and stamina but my God you have no idea how easy it

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is to overreach when trying to type a comma or a period and furthermore a

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large part of keyboard productivity has to do with non- typing key strokes

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talking about hot Keys talking about home and end talking about the arrows

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and remapping the muscle memory that you've built up for these more advanced

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actions takes a lot longer the new way

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may be superior to the old way like being able to copy paste now without

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leaving the home row but that doesn't mean that you're not going to have the

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urge to smash every time a misclick on

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the now nearby Arrow key sends your cursor flying off the page

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so while some things are straight up awesome like having backspace and delete

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front and center other things like not having a space bar on the left side are

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not and what about Gamers all right well

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I'll tell you about Gamers every key on this keyboard is remappable without the

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use of any software you heard me this keyboard has a whole Suite of badass

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onboard options that make it pretty Alpha even without the fancy ergonomic

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layout you can store multiple layout profiles and macros on the keyboard

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itself so they work on any machine you plug into like really any machine that

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supports USB keyboards is compatible and your layouts and macros are saved as txt

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files editable and emailable by you

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macros can be over 200 keystrokes long and you can even change the speed at

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which they get executed not bad but should you buy this keyboard

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well the advantage to isn't perfect it's

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really pricey and honestly I wish the number pad was in the middle instead of

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making me press this button and me what

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is that sound even but if improved

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Comfort injury prevention and increased

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