You know you're boring when...

digitalscream

...you get a couple of new toys delivered, but the keyboard puts more of a smile on your face than the 27" quad-HD monitor.

In case anyone's after a recommendation, though, and you do a lot of typing...the Logitech MX Keys Mini is absolutely magnificent as a keyboard. Quiet, comfortable, all the right keys without having to jump through hoops...it's absolutely perfect (for me, at least).

USB-C charging too, and the monitor handily has three USB ports so I don't have to faff around with more cables from the PC. Magic.

goldtop

digitalscream said:

...you get a couple of new toys delivered, but the keyboard puts more of a smile on your face than the 27" quad-HD monitor.

In case anyone's after a recommendation, though, and you do a lot of typing...the Logitech MX Keys Mini is absolutely magnificent as a keyboard. Quiet, comfortable, all the right keys without having to jump through hoops...it's absolutely perfect (for me, at least).

USB-C charging too, and the monitor handily has three USB ports so I don't have to faff around with more cables from the PC. Magic.

It's got a f****** emoji key!

The world's going to hell...

digitalscream

goldtop said:

digitalscream said:

...you get a couple of new toys delivered, but the keyboard puts more of a smile on your face than the 27" quad-HD monitor.

In case anyone's after a recommendation, though, and you do a lot of typing...the Logitech MX Keys Mini is absolutely magnificent as a keyboard. Quiet, comfortable, all the right keys without having to jump through hoops...it's absolutely perfect (for me, at least).

USB-C charging too, and the monitor handily has three USB ports so I don't have to faff around with more cables from the PC. Magic.

It's got a f****** emoji key!

The world's going to hell...

In my defence, I can pretty much guarantee that I'll never be using it. Except when I just tried it to see if it did anything in Linux.

It bloody does.

markv

I have the full size MX Keys and it's excellent - and yes, I was also very excited when mine arrived!

I got the MX Master 3 mouse too, which I would recommend.

Funkfingers

… I wake up.

Brio

Ooh. That's nice. If I wasn't buying a new amp I'd be right on that..

thumpingrug

£100 for a keyboard.  What does it do?

digitalscream

markv said:

I have the full size MX Keys and it's excellent - and yes, I was also very excited when mine arrived!

I got the MX Master 3 mouse too, which I would recommend.

Yeah, I used to use full-sized keyboards, but I realised that a) I rarely use the keypad, and b) with my three monitors, either the keypad's where my mouse wants to be when I'm central to them, or I'm off-centre which is just...weird. So mini keyboards are where it's at.

Brio said:

Ooh. That's nice. If I wasn't buying a new amp I'd be right on that..

It is. Very nice, in fact.

thumpingrug said:

£100 for a keyboard.  What does it do?

Functionally, nothing that a £10 keyboard doesn't. It's just really comfortable to type on, and very quiet. It's also got a really cool backlight that only activates when your hands are near the keyboard.

darthed1981

What happens when you spill beer on it?

Asking for a friend

Musicwolf

darthed1981 said:

What happens when you spill beer on it?

Asking for a friend

Wat happens if you spill your 'seed' upon it?

Also asking for a friend.

mrkb

Are you two friends?!?

stickyfiddle

I liked that one but I can't deal without a menu key. After much humming and hahing I went G915 Tactile and now I can do spreadsheets with custom coloured keys. I don't like the really chunky noisy mechnical keyboards but this thing has absolutely killed cheap keyboards for me. 

dano

Musicwolf said:

darthed1981 said:

What happens when you spill beer on it?

Asking for a friend

Wat happens if you spill your 'seed' upon it?

Also asking for a friend.

Just clingfilm your keyboard beforehand. 

Emp_Fab

God loves those who treat their semen with more care..

digitalscream

Jeez, guys, c'mon. We're not even out of the first page yet!

digitalscream

stickyfiddle said:

I liked that one but I can't deal without a menu key. After much humming and hahing I went G915 Tactile and now I can do spreadsheets with custom coloured keys. I don't like the really chunky noisy mechnical keyboards but this thing has absolutely killed cheap keyboards for me. 

Do you mean the Windows key? If so, it's the opt | start key next to fn.

And yeah...I'm totally with you on the chunky mechanical keyboards. I have absolutely no idea why folk are so obsessed with them.

stickyfiddle

digitalscream said:

stickyfiddle said:

I liked that one but I can't deal without a menu key. After much humming and hahing I went G915 Tactile and now I can do spreadsheets with custom coloured keys. I don't like the really chunky noisy mechnical keyboards but this thing has absolutely killed cheap keyboards for me. 

Do you mean the Windows key? If so, it's the opt | start key next to fn.

And yeah...I'm totally with you on the chunky mechanical keyboards. I have absolutely no idea why folk are so obsessed with them.

No, this guy. I use it for all the paste special shortcuts in word & excel and literally work half as fast without it. My work laptop doesn’t have it either, but I remap the bizarrely-located Prtsc key using SharpKeys so that’s ok. But obvs want it on my main keyboard as well

Of course if was also a good excuse for procurement of new shiny, but it’s a really lovely keyboard (now that there is a fairly quiet, low-travel version)

strumjoughlamps

thumpingrug said:

£100 for a keyboard.  What does it do?

Son no1s keyboard was £220 and son no2s was £160

darthed1981

mrkb said:

Are you two friends?!?

We are all friends here mate!

darthed1981

digitalscream said:

Jeez, guys, c'mon. We're not even out of the first page yet!

Hidden in my post was a serious question @digitalscream (and I really did mean beer, not anything else).

£100 is a lot for a keyboard, and for example a £60 xbox series x controller will seize up like its glued with a bit of a splash of doom bar.

Is your new luxury keyboard protected against such spillages?

digitalscream

darthed1981 said:

digitalscream said:

Jeez, guys, c'mon. We're not even out of the first page yet!

Hidden in my post was a serious question @digitalscream (and I really did mean beer, not anything else).

£100 is a lot for a keyboard, and for example a £60 xbox series x controller will seize up like its glued with a bit of a splash of doom bar.

Is your new luxury keyboard protected against such spillages?

Unfortunately, no - however, I've always been insanely careful with drinks around electronics, and I've never had a spill. And the beauty of a small, wireless keyboard is that if such a thing does happen you should be able to pick it up and turn it upside-down before any damage is done if you react quickly enough.

It's a good point, though.