My New Rosewill Keyboard

The keyboard that I ordered for my new workstation is the cheap Rosewill $14.00 slim low profile full size keyboard in black. It’s actually not too bad. I like the look of the keys. They are square and low profile as well, but not as low profile as laptop keyboards. I wanted something with a little bit more travel and a better sound. This keyboard hits those marks.

I wish it was a bit lower on the table though. It’s about twice as high as my laptop keyboard. I was expecting something a bit more “low profile”. It’s pretty wide too. I haven’t been on a full size keyboard for probably 8 years. I’m going to have to get used to the mouse being way far away. I might just switch to my left for mousing.

I’m typing 58 words per minute on it so far. That’s pretty good. I didn’t check my speed on my old keyboard, but that Dell has a horrible keyboard. The space bar doesn’t always work and you have to mash the arrow keys (I know I shouldn’t use the arrows, lol). The thing that really bugs me about most laptop keyboards is the left CTRL key is too far away. I use that key a lot.

I’m not fully sure if I like it yet, but it was only $14 so it’s OK if I don’t. I would love to try out a Das Keyboard someday. I would have to really, really like it to justify the price. Those keyboards are pricey. But they are suppose to be the best thing out there. I’m not sure. But typing in a all black term would bring back some memories. Late night coding sessions might be a bit noisy when Jane is sleeping.