Are you able to save the lighting effects, or only the static profile? I had no trouble saving a static profile to the keyboard before taking to my office.

So I have a Corsair K65 at home that I love. I don't type on it much though.

My biggest issue is that there are NO good ergonomic mechanical keyboards. One of my friends and I have tried out all the main ones available. All I want is a Microsoft 4000 in mechanical form. Is that too much to ask???

Reddit Mechanical Keybords might surprise you.

Similar form factor: Ergodox, Atreus are a couple notable off the top of my head. No numpad or dedicated function keys.

Yeah we've looked at all of them. We've tried Truly, Kinesis, Matias... I have two friends with Ergodox. My biggest problem is that I just don't like the separate/split keyboard concept. The Atreus is like the Truly with that weird staggered style.

I literally just want the Microsoft 4000 in a mechanical form. No one makes one like that. If Kinesis would make their Maxim keyboard in a mechanical, that would be the closest. Maybe someday.

I started trying out an iMac as my primary workstation last week. The keyboard the iMac came with really sucks.

The obvious question is whether iMacs need a keyboard especially meant for an Apple or will any PC USB keyboard work.

If it takes a special keyboard to be compatible with an iMac, does anyone have any suggestions on a great mechanical keyboard for it? If not, what are the better mechanical keyboards now?

After some reading, it appears that most keyboards are, in fact, compatible.

That makes me wonder how the keys map. On a typical windows style keyboard, it has a control key, a windows key, and an alt key. On the Mac keyboard I'm using at the moment, it has a control key, an options key, and an apple key.

I wonder how these map on the other keyboard.

chigger said:

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I literally just want the Microsoft 4000 in a mechanical form. No one makes one like that. If Kinesis would make their Maxim keyboard in a mechanical, that would be the closest. Maybe someday.

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I'm in the same boat, and would love to try a mechanical board. Unfortunately my wrists cannot tolerate a regular keyboard for very long.

Does anyone know of an MS 4000 style clone?

I used to rep Keytronic and for years sold them all of their portable keyboards and sold a large majority of their desktop versions also. I sold 33% of Keytronics total sales for about 13 years.

Started at $72 each unenclosed with no cable for a capacitive keyboard, eventually went to $33. Eventually the Japanese came in at $9 and my license to print money was over.

I got a Logitech K840 a couple of months ago and love it. I was a bit skeptical since they developed their own key switches instead of using Cherry MX, but I've been nothing but pleased, especially given the price point.

Mechanical keyboards are so two thousand and late. It's all about the mechanical mouse now.