| So yeah it's sometimes a good thing - but in this situation, and at least in my neck of world woods, most of the newer competing options to for my microsoft natural 4000 - not available to touch in person at my local best buy / office depot/max So I look many times at amazon which has some similar at a good price, some with backlit keys and such - I've ordered a few - none of them feel the same.. one has a wierd feel that makes me cringe like touching neoprene (not everyone has that ick feel with that material) - the keypresses are not the same either - so I am not using any of the new options but it looks like I will at some point. I'd like to see more 'cases' for the non-msoft / non-logitech keyboards - (want to take full size ergo keys to different places) searching recently I've mainly seen just a couple of options for the two big known brands. Of course this is keeping on the budget side of things. I've kicked the rabbit hole of ~200+ options and like what I see, but really want to touch and feel before such a buy. tldr - the consolidation has sucked up choice at the retailers, and also the retailers themselves - and some competition has been good it seems, but not as great as if amazon had a mobile truck that would bring every no name ergo keyboard to touch and feel first before buying. |