New keyboard!
Well, today I decided that I’d do as Liam had done a week or two ago, and clean out my trusty MS Natural Keyboard Pro.
Now, I’ve been using Natural keyboards for quite some time… I used the first one they did, now called the ‘Elite’ model, then I moved onto some other one that was built like a tank (a tank with holes, as it went down in flames when I poured a can of Coke into it), followed by the one I cleaned out today… it might have a name, but I call it the plastick-y one with the grey bits that came after the one built like a tank.
The cleaning went fairly well, I washed each key by hand and they’re probably dry by now. Unfortunately I also managed to lose one of the keyboard springs (I never saw it… I suspect it never even existed!) and at the same time break one of the legs at the back.
I’m fed up of cleaning my keyboard now (and will get pissed off quickly with a flat keyboard) so I decided to see what Google Checkout could offer me today…
for a mere £26 eBuyer would have sold me the new super-duper fancy black USB keyboard (pictured above). Unfortunately, this wasn’t quite good enough, so I managed to find a cute £4.49 USB wireless mouse I could use with my laptop… dang, still 51p short!
Eventually I settled on the keyboard, a 4-port unpowered (on purpose, I don’t like chargers) USB hub and a rather sexy-looking 1m green RJ45 cable.
To be honest, I could have probably done better, but the cable will no doubt be useful for attacking people (I had Chris in mind), so I went with it over an even cheaper RJ11 to BT-style ‘phone cable.
Total cost to me: an hour to clean and break my old keyboard, and £25.72 for all of the above mentioned good stuff, including delivery.
Google… I love you!
July 10th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Hello
Very interesting information! Thanks!
G’night