an experiment in RSI

[sistawendy]

I've been wondering lately which is worse for the RSI in my wrist: vigorous, frequent jilling off, or the integrated, flat rectangular keyboards with chiclet keys that come with Macbooks? Evidently it's the latter. I have fancy new Kinesis Advantage keyboards at work and at home, but I've also been a bit... reckless otherwise. I'm feeling some ill effects, maybe - it's hard to get away from the chiclets completely - but nothing compared to months past.

This is good news, to say the least.

Comments

[ximinez]

That's a pretty crazy looking keyboard. Very spendy, though, and I'm not sure I like the space key only available for the right hand. Plus I still like my old MS Natural.

[sistawendy]

I've kept my MS Natural at home for my non-work machine, where I don't do much coding. (Shhh!) The layout of non-alphanumeric characters differs enough between the two to make switching back & forth kind of annoying. The MS Natural isn't bad, but the Kinesis is better IMO.

[ximinez]

Hmmmmm.

[randomdreams]

Does voice recognition work at all for you?

[sistawendy]

I haven't tried it. Wouldn't it be a pain for coding, though?

[randomdreams]

Yeah, I was wondering about that. I don't know what your breakdown is. Even when I'm coding, I'm doing more email than code, so I have been looking at it.