Late to the conversation, but here’s my 2 cents:
The best keyboard I’ve used is the Das keyboard for the Mac. Mine has
cherry brown switches; the cherry blue are a bit noisier. The aural
feedback helps my typing. It has all the Mac keys I need, and also the
Windows keys, a necessity since I use both OSes via virtual machines.
They are expensive, but I spend a good bit of my life tapping at it.
Again, solid state drives are more expensive, but few things come as
close to making your computer seem brand new and twice as fast. The
switch to SSD reminded me of the ’80s when every new processor
generation doubled your speed.
--Barry
On 9 Apr 2019, at 20:30, Gary Schiltz wrote:
I had a "Happy Hacking" keyboard when I last worked for a living, and
loved
it. The "light" version that I had doesn't have the Cherry switches,
but it
was still good for the price. As for hard drives, they are cheap as
heck
these days, and I have no real preference among the major brands (WD,
Seagate, Hitachi).
On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 7:08 PM Gillian Densmore
<gil.densm...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Alas my super nice keyboard from at least 2 years ago is showing age
and
having been used pretty well. Mechanical Cherry Mx Green (blackwidow
if
that makes a difference) feels fantastic to type on. The key cap
for
space is wearing, and I feels like the swich to it and vowles are
loosing a
bit of spring.
Any recomendations for a solid replacement? Loved a logitech I got as
a
gift years ago, other than faulty "e" key it was also fantastic and
served
me very well. Leentwards mechanicle because they feel fantastic. Not
,must. full sized required.
Hard drive:
Looking for hard-drive recomendations as well. I Ask because I ran
FSCK
and the graphicle disk checker tool that came with ubuntu 19 (forget
thename) FSCK only said " have 50 bad sectors" while disks(?)
cautioned
spin up and spin down are a little on the week side. Not surprising
as
it's a 4 year old hard drive that's been used pretty hard. Also it's
for a
desktop PC, regular internal hard-drive. Nothing fancy.
Thanks!
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