Since the Mac Mini1 doesn’t come with a mouse and keyboard, I’ve spent some time trying to decide which keyboard is best for it.
This is different from deciding what is the best keyboard. I could say the best keyboard is one featuring the Dvorak key layout. While that would be fine for me, it would hardly be a good recommendation for the general population. Or I could say that this cool keyboard with a 48×48-pixel color display for each and every key is the best, but it costs US$15002. That’s twice the price of a Mini, so hardly appropriate.
So my goal is to find a quasi-normal USB keyboards that are inexpensive, but not so cheap that quality suffers. It’s well worth it, I believe, to spend a few extra dollars for quality input devices3.
I also intend, at least for now, to restrict myself to corded keyboards. There are a lot of wireless keyboards out there, many of them cheaper than corded keyboards, but having to keep changing the batteries is inconvenient and I just don’t see any advantage for most users.
The candidates are: Read the rest of this entry »
