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Is The AAPL Keyboard good for the wrist ???

Merkuryy

Merkuryy

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Jun 10, 2007
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Shanghai, China
I'm a economics students who brought the MBP 2 years ago. I'm approaching the graduation, so I got a lot of paper to read and specially, a lot of work to do through Microsoft Office(Blahhh!). After tapping about 30 thousands words in 1 month, My wrist began to hurt, the finger,too.

I'm also a Bboy, when doing handstand or airchair, I can feel my wrist stretch with a little pain in recent days. If I want to keep on bboying and finishing my semester before going to hospital, I'd better get a desktop keyboard, so my hands and wrist can work better. I remember playing PC games in high school vacation 8 hours a day without getting hurt.

As 98% of my work is done on Mac OSX(Also on Office 2008),I prefer to purchase an Apple Keyboard (better to be wireless). So the question is :ARE THEY GOOD ENOUGH TO MY WRIST? CAN I TAP 10 THOUSANDS WORDS without pain??? Or I should buy a standart PC keyboard, thanks i advance:eek:
 
To me, those apple keyboards don't look any more ergonomic than the macbook keyboards.

I've never been disappointed with Logitech keyboards/mice. Look for similarly priced Logitech keyboards like the Wave, the extra padding should be good on the wrists.
 
Merkuryy said:
I'm a economics students who brought the MBP 2 years ago. I'm approaching the graduation, so I got a lot of paper to read and specially, a lot of work to do through Microsoft Office(Blahhh!). After tapping about 30 thousands words in 1 month, My wrist began to hurt, the finger,too.

I'm also a Bboy, when doing handstand or airchair, I can feel my wrist stretch with a little pain in recent days. If I want to keep on bboying and finishing my semester before going to hospital, I'd better get a desktop keyboard, so my hands and wrist can work better. I remember playing PC games in high school vacation 8 hours a day without getting hurt.

As 98% of my work is done on Mac OSX(Also on Office 2008),I prefer to purchase an Apple Keyboard (better to be wireless). So the question is :ARE THEY GOOD ENOUGH TO MY WRIST? CAN I TAP 10 THOUSANDS WORDS without pain??? Or I should buy a standart PC keyboard, thanks i advance:eek:
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it's good.
and most of us type more although i doubt they do handstands or airchair?? whatever that is.
 
alphaod said:
Learn Dvorak.
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My advice based on dealing with pain:

1, Get a tilted, neutral-position keyboard. Kinesis makes nice ones.

2. Make sure your sitting arrangements are ergonomic - google is your friend

3. Look up Mousekeydo - it's a method for typing without hurting yourself

4. Get a good mouse or other input device. Wacom's pads are great and easy to use as a comfortable input device. There are other, zero-tension ones like the AirObic mouse that eliminate much of the need to grasp and tense your hand and fingers

5. Learning Dvorak is not a bad idea - but only if you can use it all the time, otherwise I found it confusing to go back and forth.

6. Live happily ever after and avoid life-long injuries!


Oh, about the apple keyboard: it's fine but you want to type lightly since the keys have very little depth. It also is a regular flat keyboard so your wrists will inevitably not be in a neutral, ergonomic position.
 
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