At work I use a laptop 100% of the time and at home it is at least 50% so I have become quite comfortable typing those style keyboards. The only time I use anything different was with my personal desktop where I have had a Microsoft Natural Ergo Keyboard for the last 4 years or so. The problem that I kept running into was that my fingers and hands were so used to typing on laptop keyboards, that using the Natural Ergo from time to time slowed down my typing.

This weekend I was at Staples just browsing around (I have an office supply fetish) and stumbled onto the Digital Media 3000. At less then $30 bucks, I figured what the heck and bought it. So far the transition has not been quite as seamless as I had hoped. My muscle memory is still getting familiar with the new board, but overall I really like it. The keys are super quiet and low profile and the hot keys have worked without having to install the software. The only real oddity is that you have use F Lock to access the F keys, but its not like I really use those all that often anyway.

Grab It: Microsoft Digital Media Keyboard 3000

Tags: Keyboards, Microsoft, Staples

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