A good mechanical clicky keyboard (as BoingBoing’s Cory Doctorow aptly puts it, a “rattly, clackety hapticality”) is one of the single greatest investments typists can make. I swear by the old-school IBM weapons-grade models, which can be found for low dollars in junk shops (or purchased from the current licensee, whose name escapes me at the moment), and if someone were to develop a PS/2 or USB version of the crusty IBM System 34 keyboards—the ones that made the crisp spring-loaded, muscle-building clang—I would have a breakdown from joy. Apparently, the Mac world has such a legendary keyboard: the Apple Extended Keyboard. Now Matias has created the ‘Tactile Pro,’ a keyboard that incorporates the same mechanical switch technology of the old keyboard, with the modern addition of USB ports. No more smushy, marshmallow keyboards for Mac users, unless that’s what you want.
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