I ordered one (again, from with their Global Shipping option, due to the layout problems), and eventually it got here… Instead, I found a Kensington Pro Fit Ergo Wireless Keyboard, from a brand that was at least not unknown to me, and actually one that I remembered with a smidgen of fondness - they were the brand of the trackballs I got after Logitech stopped making their best one ever (the Optical TrackMan Cordless, which you can now buy from some absurd suppliers for over £400!) and before discovering the ELECOM trackballs. And even though I nearly got one of them, the fact that people complain that the keys themselves are smaller than the Sculpt dissuaded me from trying them.
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There are a few, identically-looking, but differently branded (likely AliExpress special) keyboard-and-trackball combos, but that’s where the selection ends. I was surprised to discover that there are not that many clones when it comes to 75% ergonomic keyboards. So after securing at least one from eBay (and eventually a second one from Amazon when they did get a bit more stock), I decided to look at what other alternatives are there for ergonomic keyboards with a negative wrist angle. When I went to order a new Sculpt keyboard, though, I found that didn’t have any stock available! The Microsoft Store did have them, but I can’t order from the US store, and the UK store only has the UK layout ones - so hopefully this means it’s not entirely out of production, and it’s just a temporary stock problem, but it did make me go a bit paranoid, as the other Sculpt I had at hand is also the same age, and I would be stumped if I didn’t have a good keyboard to work with.
KENSINGTON PRO FIT ERGO KEYBOARD DRIVER
Unfortunately, a few weeks ago my daily driver keyboard failed: the number 6 stopped typing, and without a number it’s fairly difficult to keep working. In particular, I have been using the US layout because, rare among the WordPress users, I have been using the US International layout for many, many years (including getting upset for when it was broken on Xorg, and building my own version of it for OS X when it was not bundled with the system) and particularly using it with an actual US physical layout (ever since I ordered the wrong keyboard from Apple and I fell in love with the horizontal enter key. You may not know this, because I usually only rant about this on Twitter, but for the longest time I have been a Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic keyboard user.
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