army1987 comments on Spend Money on Ergonomics - Less Wrong

43 Post author: Kevin 23 December 2011 06:40AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 23 December 2011 09:51:48AM *  5 points [-]

Ergonomic keyboards are nice, but even more importantly, I'd recommend one with mechanical switches. Best thing I ever bought. Cherry has good cheap ones, but mechanical switches last forever, so you could also go with an old Model M. I also use my own custom keyboard layout, but Dvorak is just as good for most users, really, but I'm an Emacs user, so there. (I use 7 modifiers. Don't judge me.)

Honestly, I don't get office chairs. I think they're all horrible. I use big, comfortable reclining chairs with plenty of pillows. Recent research backs me up on this.

(The links are all first Google hits, so I apologize, but I didn't have the time to look for good sources.)

Comment author: [deleted] 23 December 2011 11:32:02AM 0 points [-]

I'd recommend one with mechanical switches

The keyboard on my netbook is (astonishingly) good enough, but I find most “modern” keyboards absurdly hard to type with.

Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 24 December 2011 06:08:03AM 0 points [-]

Which netbook? I mean, I would be interested to learn the Make and model.

Comment author: [deleted] 24 December 2011 10:14:29AM 0 points [-]

It's a Samsung N150 Plus.