Logitech's Upcoming Ergonomic Keyboard Leaks Ahead of Launch

[trsttte]

US keyboards are too limited in Europe

They're more common than you'd think, whenever I do a quick search for mechanical keyboards most stuff I find is ANSI only. Kind of nuts given the population of europe is 1.5x the population of the US but given there's at least 10 different variations of the ISO layout across Europe I guess they'd rather throw the towel and just try to push ANSI and hope people buy it anyway (which a lot do to my disbelief).

Personally I don't mind buying whatever regional ISO layout is available, I can live and i'm already used to having misplaced symbols anyway, but I refuse to buy anything that's not ISO

 

[TheLostSwede]

They're more common than you'd think, whenever I do a quick search for mechanical keyboards most stuff I find is ANSI only. Kind of nuts given the population of europe is 1.5x the population of the US but given there's at least 10 different variations of the ISO layout across Europe I guess they'd rather throw the towel and just try to push ANSI and hope people buy it anyway (which a lot do to my disbelief).

Personally I don't mind buying whatever regional ISO layout is available, I can live and i'm already used to having misplaced symbols anyway, but I refuse to buy anything that's not ISO

The worst ones are these. I have no idea how they came about.

You can also get a weird ISO/ANSI hybird.

 

[Haile Selassie]

Is anyone making mech variant of the ergo style keyboard?

 

[LabRat 891]

Is anyone making mech variant of the ergo style keyboard?

Perixx does: https://perixx.com/products/px-ergonomic-mechanical-keyboard

~$99-119 USD on Amazon, Newegg, etc.

 

[Bwaze]

They're more common than you'd think, whenever I do a quick search for mechanical keyboards most stuff I find is ANSI only. Kind of nuts given the population of europe is 1.5x the population of the US but given there's at least 10 different variations of the ISO layout across Europe I guess they'd rather throw the towel and just try to push ANSI and hope people buy it anyway (which a lot do to my disbelief).

I think this started with first LED lighted keyboards. All of a sudden there was no easy option to just print the additional odd characters of many EU nations, regions, states. So the companies tried to push the "universal" one, screw the local traditions. And all of a sudden you got Razer Black Widow with just the US layoit, and imprters then laser etched couple of local language signs on appropriate keys. The fact that much of secondary signs layout doesn't really match was just ignored.

This really took off, so many companies followed, and now even the companies that do make proper EU local keyboards also offer US layout, and it's a mess.