On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Ben Kochie wrote: > I think it's not more of the noise, but the feel, the noisy keyboards > genearly have a better feel, of something actualy hapening when you type.. > plus some of us have to look at a 2nd source of information when they > type, and can't look at the screen to see what they just typed.. it's the > full feedback thing.. plus, from what I've seen, most of the soft-key > keypads can be sticky, just low-quality crap.. makes it hard to type on. > at work I have an old IBM AT thing, with the removeable keycaps, I pop all > the caps off, and dishwasher them everyonce in a while.. I don't > dishwasher the whole keyboard tho.. I'm on a HP keyboard right now.. it's not really clicky, but you can hear each keystroke, and feel it.. I much prefer this over the old IBM keyboards where you have you slam each key down.. I can type a helluva lot faster. :) Plus, the noise of the keycaps just makes you turn the music up louder.. which I'm sure would piss off my neighbors back here (*waves to chad and carl*) -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500