[FRIAM] keyboard and hard drive recommendations wanted.

[Gary Schiltz]

In my experience upgrading laptops, double is an understatement. 5-10x
often.

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 9:46 AM Barry MacKichan <
barry.mackichan at mackichan.com> wrote:

> Late to the conversation, but here’s my 2 cents:
>
> The best keyboard I’ve used is the Das keyboard for the Mac. Mine has
> cherry brown switches; the cherry blue are a bit noisier. The aural
> feedback helps my typing. It has all the Mac keys I need, and also the
> Windows keys, a necessity since I use both OSes via virtual machines.
>
> They are expensive, but I spend a good bit of my life tapping at it.
>
> Again, solid state drives are more expensive, but few things come as close
> to making your computer seem brand new and twice as fast. The switch to SSD
> reminded me of the ’80s when every new processor generation doubled your
> speed.
>
> --Barry
>
> On 9 Apr 2019, at 20:30, Gary Schiltz wrote:
>
> I had a "Happy Hacking" keyboard when I last worked for a living, and
> loved it. The "light" version that I had doesn't have the Cherry switches,
> but it was still good for the price. As for hard drives, they are cheap as
> heck these days, and I have no real preference among the major brands (WD,
> Seagate, Hitachi).
>
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 7:08 PM Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Alas my super nice keyboard from at least 2 years ago is showing age and
>> having been used pretty well. Mechanical Cherry Mx Green (blackwidow if
>> that makes a difference)   feels fantastic to type on. The key cap for
>> space is wearing, and I feels like the swich to it and vowles are loosing a
>> bit of spring.
>>
>> Any recomendations for a solid replacement? Loved a logitech I got as a
>> gift years ago, other than faulty "e" key it was also  fantastic and served
>> me very well.  Leentwards mechanicle because they feel fantastic. Not
>> ,must. full sized required.
>>
>> Hard drive:
>> Looking for hard-drive recomendations as well. I Ask because I ran FSCK
>> and the graphicle disk checker tool that came with ubuntu 19 (forget
>> thename) FSCK only said " have 50 bad sectors" while disks(?) cautioned
>> spin up and spin down are a little on the week side.  Not surprising as
>> it's a 4 year old hard drive that's been used pretty hard.  Also it's for a
>> desktop PC, regular internal hard-drive. Nothing fancy.
>> Thanks!
>>
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