haha, wow. I hope he left early!
EDIT: Keyboards and mice.
I never understood the concept of a gaming mouse. My hand is at best a 100 DPI device which makes the premise of a 1600 DPI mouse laughable. What I'm using now is a wireless rocketfish, the best thing about this mouse is that it has a 800 to 1600 DPI button, since I'm nowhere as accurate as the gamers out there who are targeting the elite crew's nose hair in CS, this serves as a speed up/slow down switch which is pretty useful for me. There's just no real reason to avoid a wireless mouse at this point. It's like being the guy who won't adopt infrared for whatever reason.
I sprung for a 80 dollar Das keyboard a few days ago and really liked it. Then I spilled a soda on it, it still worked! But while I was trying to clean it I broke off a switch. The nice people at Das sent me the 130 upgraded model (which I'd never drop 130 bucks on) since I was just in warranty and I'm so charming and shit. I gotta say it's much more sweet than the original.
The biggest improvement is that the f and j keys are marked normally rather than the annoying "scoop" design the original had. The original Das seemed to have more tender keys, just leaving your fingers to rest on a key could cause it to switch which was pretty annoying.
Basically it's a great keyboard and if you want a "new" model M you're dropping 100+ on it anyway(or just swallow your pride and hit the salvation army). There are tons of features up on
Das' site. It's basically a buckling spring except not exactly as loud and the keys press way easier.
Having it be blank is just to make it look cool. I'm sure it makes me a better typist or whatever but what the real advantage is that you won't have to look at your keys fade, and won't have to watch your keyboard get more and more filthy. Definitely a keyboard for smokers.
haha, wow. I hope he left early!
EDIT: Keyboards and mice.
I never understood the concept of a gaming mouse. My hand is at best a 100 DPI device which makes the premise of a 1600 DPI mouse laughable. What I'm using now is a wireless rocketfish, the best thing about this mouse is that it has a 800 to 1600 DPI button, since I'm nowhere as accurate as the gamers out there who are targeting the elite crew's nose hair in CS, this serves as a speed up/slow down switch which is pretty useful for me. There's just no real reason to avoid a wireless mouse at this point. It's like being the guy who won't adopt infrared for whatever reason.
I sprung for a 80 dollar Das keyboard a few days ago and really liked it. Then I spilled a soda on it, it still worked! But while I was trying to clean it I broke off a switch. The nice people at Das sent me the 130 upgraded model (which I'd never drop 130 bucks on) since I was just in warranty and I'm so charming and shit. I gotta say it's much more sweet than the original.
The biggest improvement is that the f and j keys are marked normally rather than the annoying "scoop" design the original had. The original Das seemed to have more tender keys, just leaving your fingers to rest on a key could cause it to switch which was pretty annoying.
Basically it's a great keyboard and if you want a "new" model M you're dropping 100+ on it anyway(or just swallow your pride and hit the salvation army). There are tons of features up on [url=http://daskeyboard.com/]Das' site[/url]. It's basically a buckling spring except not exactly as loud and the keys press way easier.
Having it be blank is just to make it look cool. I'm sure it makes me a better typist or whatever but what the real advantage is that you won't have to look at your keys fade, and won't have to watch your keyboard get more and more filthy. Definitely a keyboard for smokers.