Belkin threw the standard keyboard style out the window when it designed the 3-D, split-design ErgoBoard. Its 108-key format is designed with your body's natural posture in mind. It features an integrated wrist rest, adjustable keyboard heights, Windows 98 hot keys, and PS/2- and AT-compatible connectors.
Bend your arms at the elbows and hold your hands straight out. See how your hands naturally position themselves at a slight inward angle toward each other? Notice how this angle matches the angle of the split-keypad on the ErgoBoard Natural Design Keyboard. It lets you work more comfortably by helping you type with your hands, wrists, and forearms in a more relaxed posture. The ErgoBoard Natural Design Keyboard incorporates more than just an ergonomic design, it also includes a tactile key switch, an integrated palm rest and adjustable typing heights. This keyboard still has the familiar layout that you are used to. Using a QuietType membrane with soft tactile keys will ensure ease of use and a comfortable feel. With a 15 million keystroke operating life and a jumbo sized Enter key, you can expect reliable and convenient performance for years to come.
1 Buy a Belkin, Go Insane
The power and sleep buttons are the same size and height regular keys which make them easy to bump when using navigation keys or number pad. Almost all Belkin keyboards are like this. I'd bump them even when reaching for something on my desk and I'd lose hours of stupidly unsaved work. Waiting for your computer to start up again isn't fun either. Other times I'd bump the sleep button, which was less disastrous, but just as infuriating. Adding insult to injury, the power button would not turn the computer back on or wake it. I finally ended up taking a hammer to it. Funny, now that it's in a thousand peices, it still works as well as when I first got it.
2 Does not curve upwards like MS Natural Keyboard
I looked at this keyboard in a store and discoverd that while it is called "ergonomic", it is flat. It doesn't curve up in the middle like ergonomic keyboards from Microsoft and Logitech. You can't tell this from the pictures on Amazon. However, the Belkin Ergoboard Pro does curve, but as I write this it is not for sale on Amazon.
3 Excellent product
Although, being honest, I should admit that it's my first ergonomic keyboard, but I had a chance to use all kinds of other regular keyboards for more that 14 years of my computer-related experience. You must know that this keyboard appears to be highly reliable (so far), it's not light, it does have a very convenient key layout and a good key action. It's not noisy, not too easy or too hard to press. And yes, it does look cool. I never had an ergo keyboard before, because I don't believe in low-quality and overpriced MS products. Also, Logitech keyboards and too expensive and I never liked black keybaords, which Logitech somehow prefers to offer.
Belkin products usually offer a great value and reasonable quality (often their quality is higher-than-average), and this keyboard is no exception. It comes with a PS/2 to AT adapter ($5-8 value), which is necessary for users of older desktop systems or for those who use older types of keyboard extension cables.
Everyone in my household now wants one like mine, so I will probably order three more ErgoBoards. Also the Pro version should be considered by those who want a USB hub.
4 Pretty good Keyboard
I would rate this keyboard 5 stars if it doesn't came with the annoying power key (on the top right hand side). Other than this, everything else is pretty good. The keys of this board are very crisp, not sticky like many other cheap ones I tried. The arm rest is also comfortable.
I have used many ergo designed keyboards before, such as Keyboards from Microsoft, Lite-on, Micro Innovations, Logitech, ...etc. But out of all them, I like this Belkin one the most due to its performance and price.
5 Great keyboard
I have this keyboard in black at the office and in white at home. It's comfortable and the 6 key is in the proper place. Don't presume that because it's a cheap price that it is not worth it. It's a great keyboard and I would buy it again.
6 Great touching typing keyboard.
This is one of the few keyboards that actually puts the '6' key on the correct side of the split for touch typing. It has Great response, the keys work quickly. You can use a key combination other that wasd in a game without problems.
