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dad has big hands and arthritis. any suggestions?

 

 

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There all the same size, but if he wants something with a giant wristrest i would say anything and one of these 

http://www.amazon.com/Filco-FKBPR-Wristrest-Standard-Keyboards/dp/B000KJTP4S/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1378617880&sr=8-8&keywords=wristrest

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ergo dox

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What kind of arthritis? In the wrist? Fingers?

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What kind of arthritis? In the wrist? Fingers?

he calls it all over arthritis so yeah. I know that's not much help but I don't know what to say

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he calls it all over arthritis so yeah. I know that's not much help but I don't know what to say

I guess any mech keyboard with mx cherry reds and a nice wrist rest should help if he doesn't have shaky hands. It would ease his fingers.

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I have a CM Storm Trigger, and the wrist wrest on this is absolutely gigantic. Personally I like it, and even my grandfather (also, arthritis) doesn't mind it. Just my two cents.

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get an ergonomic keyboard?  the ergodox is pretty fad these days.

 

otherwise, there is no such thing as a large keyboard.

 

consider getting him to start using macro keys to save keystrokes.

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Cherry G80-3000, simple and large.

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Cherry G80-3000, simple and large.

thanks for the suggestion. I talked to him a few minutes ago and I told him that I want to get him a mechanical keyboard that has the keys spread out a bit and when he asked what a mechanical keyboard is (this coming from a guy who has an information systems degree from 1995) I told him it's like the old keyboards from the 80s and early 90s that actually had a spring underneath the key and his response (remember, information systems degree, 1995) was that he doesn't want anything too complicated. He has a $150,000 artificial leg (insurance ftw) that has a very complex and realistic hydraulic knee and ball bearing loaded ball joint for the ankle that could pass for a terminator leg, and he is lecturing me about not wanting too much technology in a $100 keyboard that he will use all the time.

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...is your dad also afraid of door knobs? cause they're much more complicated than cherry MX

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...is your dad also afraid of door knobs? cause they're much more complicated than cherry MX

you missed the point.

I get 60 frames at 1080p on a dual core APU. Ask me how.

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So did you get him a keyboard in the end?

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So did you get him a keyboard in the end?

nope. he won't accept a new one.

I get 60 frames at 1080p on a dual core APU. Ask me how.

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