Thanks! After I tanked out harder than I thought I might yesterday, and needing to wind down some was browsing reddit to see how do-able it is to fix either one: turns out not all that do able. Short of the long is that Das Keyboard, Apple Keyboards, and a new to me company called red dragon for mechanicals get really good praise, partially for just being a darn good keyboard, and partially because of being much more sensable for budgeting than others. I'll see if Amazon has Das Keyboards used. Re: SSD-Hard drives, and speed. I can see that! any sugestions for brands to look at? and what's your experience been with reliabliy?
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 8:45 AM Barry MacKichan < barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> wrote: > 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! >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >> > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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