Your wrists will thank you with the Comfort Curve Keyboard 3000
Personally, I’m a maximum comfort kind of guy and prefer a split keyboard. But I understand that split keyboards might not be for everyone. One of the challenges has been – how can I provide better comfort and posture for people who prefer working with a straight keyboard? The original Comfort Curve layout was the first step in this direction. The new layout on the Comfort Curve Keyboard 3000 represents the next step.
Building on the original Comfort Curve, this new key layout is designed to be a better option for straight-keyboard users and has been improved in two fundamental ways. First, the QWERTY keys are uniformly sized in a way that is more similar to a standard straight keyboard. That increases the familiarity. Second, the curve has been modified to be more organic – adding curvature in the third dimension. That increases the comfort.
This keyboard has been three years in the making and I’m excited that people can finally benefit from it after all of those rounds of research and iteration.
The Comfort Curve Keyboard 3000 will be available in August for $24.95 at Amazon, Office Depot, and the Microsoft Store.
- Dan Odell, Certified Professional Ergonomist
Wow, that’s cheap! How much will it be in the UK?
6:55 am Tom Clarke
Very cheap, hope to see it soon in Brazil.
7:26 am Helder Ferreira da Luz
Now, how about bringing back the Microsoft trackball optical mouse?
9:40 am Christopher Beaver
I’m sure that in Brazil will cost much more.
2:07 pm Rocha
Microsoft’s Keyboards are some of the best I’ve ever tried. I’ve had pretty expensive wireless keyboards filled with features only to settle on the very affordable microsoft keyboard 600, simply because it is the best I’ve ever “felt”.
I’m not usually an ergonomic-keyboard kinda guy but I am really intrigued with this product. I guess I’ll wait until I can try it in a store and see how it feels.
Great stuff.
12:43 am Nuno Sousa
A wireless one with Mac compatibility please! A $10 or even $15 markup for that wouldn’t be minded.
10:36 am B
hi there, this is really nice. I’m your counterpart actually – maximum comfort kind of girl. I’m into ergonomic chairs, keywords, and all ergo stuffs. And this is a good find right here. I just might change my keyword next week. Thanks for sharing this!
6:58 am Ehm Mendoza
Hmm, compared to the previous model this is not a keyboard, it’s just a toy. Actually, it has nothing common with previous model – Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000. There was no marketing reason to use same name other than to annoy customers.
New keyboard does not have Break key, so it’s impossible to open System properties by pressing Win-Break.
New keyboard has wrong Delete key and Insert Key, so it’s impossible to copy and paste text with Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert. Print Screen is also misplaced.
New keyboard has small substandard functional keys so it’s impossible to use them.
New keyboard does not have enough space around arrows block so it’s hard use arrows.
New keyboard does not have standalone context menu key so you have to use mouse or Shit-F10 or Fn-Shift.
New keyboard does not have back/forward buttons which could be remapped to Media Previous Track/Next track with Original software or with Autohotkey software.
New keyboard does not have Mute button.
The only thing that seems to be better than in 2000 model is a spacebar but we cannot be sure looking at the images.
Hopefully, Microsoft will release real Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000 replacement, which actually had only two issues – its overly curved (it’s harder to reach backspace) and rather noisy spacebar.
11:43 pm Vyacheslav Lanovets
There’s one thing that drives me crazy. Why the hell did you move the keys? The rows ASDF and ZXCV are half a key to the right compared with the Comfort Curve 2000.
I’ve used it for less than half an hour, made about a hundred typos, and my left arm already hurts.
I’m not sure if it matters, but I’m using a Spanish keyboard.
6:10 pm Patrick
***Newly Edited 03.26.09 So although I am a Mac, and not a PC, I still iialntebvy end up using Microsoft products. Most recently, their Comfort Curve keyboard, which I chose over the Logitech Wave. I pretty much refuse to use Microsoft’s mice because a number of them have died rather early deaths. This time Microsoft has come out with something to make even Apple and Logitech jealous. It’s this splendidly, sleekly stylish bluetooth keyboard and number. It’s about as thin as the instruction manuals that came with it. It also is the perhaps the only keyboard of its kind (ultra-slim, designed primarily for mobile/laptops, bluetooth, very portable) that I’ve ever seen to have an ergonomic layout. (If you, like me, get pain & cramping after even short typing sessions with regular keyboards, trust me the ergonomic keyboards on the market are well worth it.) It is PRICEY, but relative to its competition of this genre of keyboards, it’s priced fairly reasonably, though it does lack many of the multimedia and hot keys that I’ve gotten accustomed to (likely sacrificed to keep it compact.) One final note: regarding infamous delay time. It occurs with startup and power save mode, which it does quite often. Everyone seems to have a more negative opinion of this, but the time it takes to wake on my older Mac from start to type is less time than connecting my bluetooth headset to my phone. I’d estimate about 2-3 seconds to wake up, and when it does, it instantly types out whatever keys I have begun typing. I’m a pretty impatient person, but I enjoy this keyboard enough that it’s relatively minor to me personally.
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