Comment Ergonomic keyboard and pointing device (Score 1) 757
As far as input devices I use a Kinesis Contoured Keyboard. It’s much more ergonomically correct than most anything on the market and in the long run I’m hoping that this fact will save my butt.
The Kinesis Contoured has built in memory so you can program a bunch of macros into it. You can also remap the keys to any other key position. If you don’t like the location of F2 you can remap it to the delete key or the A key or whatever.
I type using the Dvorak layout. It’s much more efficient than the standard Qwerty layout. The Contoured keyboard has Dvorak built in. Just press Progrm + Ctrl + F5 and walla, you’ve got a Dvorak layout keyboard. Press the same keys again and you’re back to Qwerty.
It has a built in 10-key keypad. Hit the keypad button and the right hand keywell turns into a 10-key. Hit the keypad button again and you’re back to normal.
You can connect a foot switch. The keyboard has a little connector for you to plug in a foot switch. The foot switch can turn the keypad and shift on and off as well as a bunch of other actions.
For pointing devices I use two. So I won’t have to reach so far I have a small touchpad that sits on my keyboard in the empty space between the left and right keywells. I use the touchpad for pointing operations that don’t require a high degree of accuracy. For high accuracy pointing I use an Evoluent Vertical mouse.
Of course everything sits on a fully adjustable keyboard tray that I position to be sitting just above my lap.
This is the most comfortable setup I've had so far.