Comments on: Happy Hacking Keyboard Lite 2 Review

By: Hiro

Hiro — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:25:10 +0000

Hi hamazy. ah! I forgot about vi :P

By: Web Spiritus

Web Spiritus — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:21:30 +0000

HHK Pro 2, the keyboard I finally found…

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By: hamazy

hamazy — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:49:11 +0000

oh, there’re two type M keyboards in our office, though they are not mine but my colleagues’. So, i know the nice feeling, crazy sound and heaviness… One of the owners described it as “You can kill people with this.”

And, as for ThinkPad’s trackpoint, that is one of the several things i’m missing after quitting IBM. While feeling of ThinkPad keys is getting worse, i think, that of trackpoint is getting better year by year, model by model.

By: ianc

ianc — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:02:43 +0000

I’ve used two keyboards that I think are better than the HHK Lite or Pro, both made by IBM.

One is the original Model M, the keyboard feel is *amazing* but it is heavy, noisy and takes up a lot of space. The other one is the UltraNav or ones built into Thinkpads. The trackpoint means my hands never have to leave the keyboard to reach for the mouse. Eg. to change stations on last.fm while coding :) The feel and action is not as good as the Model M though :(

Not sure about emac users but a lot of vi users use Ctrl [ for escape, and remapping the Caps Lock key to Control if they aren’t using a specialist keyboard like the HHK.

By: hamazy

hamazy — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:29:48 +0000

Hi, Hiro. Any vi-like key bindings (vi, vim, ksh, etc.) heavily rely on escape key. For vi users, escape key is much more important than tilde. I think that’s why it is placed at next to 1 key on HHK, instead of tilde. The same thing also applys to emacs users, when they use escape key for Meta- binding as I do.

BTW, HHK Pro 2’s type feeling is really amazing. I’ve also used HHK Lite 2 and found that Lite and Pro are totally different things.