Couple of things I find important about a keyboard:
- The cursor keys are in a proper upside-down capital T shape. I've seen diamond shaped cursor keys that are just HORRIBLE.
- There is a block of 6 keys that are Insert/Home/Page Up then Delete/End/Page Down. This is the classic block and when it gets moved down to add in another row of 3 stupid multi-media keys or something it totally throws me. I use "old-skool" Cut/Paste key combos like Shift+Delete and Shift+Insert often when programming (very quick) and I use Home and End when programming, and Page Up/Down of course. So when this block is screwed with I hate it.
As a result my MS Natural keyboard is REALLY OLD (in fact I bought it second hand from a company I used to work fo), because MS screwed with the layouts in more modern version.
- The cursor keys are in a proper upside-down capital T shape. I've seen diamond shaped cursor keys that are just HORRIBLE.
- There is a block of 6 keys that are Insert/Home/Page Up then Delete/End/Page Down. This is the classic block and when it gets moved down to add in another row of 3 stupid multi-media keys or something it totally throws me. I use "old-skool" Cut/Paste key combos like Shift+Delete and Shift+Insert often when programming (very quick) and I use Home and End when programming, and Page Up/Down of course. So when this block is screwed with I hate it.
As a result my MS Natural keyboard is REALLY OLD (in fact I bought it second hand from a company I used to work fo), because MS screwed with the layouts in more modern version.