By Jon Porter
Spend any amount of time around the keyboard-obsessed portions of the internet and you’ll inevitably hear the Happy Hacker Keyboard Professional 2 mentioned.
It’s a piece of hardware that’s almost specifically designed to appeal to an enthusiast niche. Its so-called ‘60% form-factor’ means that it doesn’t feature a num pad, arrow keys, or even a function row. Even the keys it does have are positioned like no other keyboard we’ve ever seen, with a ‘Control’ key where the ‘Caps lock’ key should be, and a backspace key sitting where you’d otherwise find a backslash key.
In other words, it’s a keyboard that’s happy to tweak and change the keyboard layout that the rest of the world has used unquestioningly since the late ’80s.
The $225 (£260, around AU$290) HHKB Pro 2 doesn’t care if you’ve spent five, ten, or even 20 years building up muscle memory that works a certain way. It has faith in its own way of doing things, and you’ve got to respect its bold choices.
The fact that it’s got its own way of doing things is one thing, but whether you’ll want to relearn how to use a keyboard is another thing entirely, and we’re not …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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