Looks like I’ve found the perfect Mac-compatible wireless keyboard!
But they ship directly from China and I’m worried about that new virus! 
Might wait a few months then order…
Can this site have any more trackers though? I feel like 20 aren’t enough. 
Looks promising. I’d consider it seriously. Recently getting very unhappy with my CODE keyboard. Sadly they turned out to be pretty average. 
What’s alerting you to the trackers? I use Safari with no-track option in prefs 
Firefox’s uMatrix. 46 external scripts. 
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I use a Kinesis Freestyle Pro with Cherry Silent Red switches, tent kit, and pro palm supports. I also have an Ergodox EZ Shine, which is a great keyboard, but I plan to sell it. Unfortunately, I’m one of those people that it just doesn’t work for even though it did work for awhile… https://people.ergodox-ez.com/david-baldwin/
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I’m using a Whitefox (https://input.club/whitefox/) with CherryMx Clear.
It works on QMK (https://qmk.fm) so that it can be customised at every level: for example I moved the modificators to the home row (if I press S, it prints S, but if I keep pressed S it become SHIFT).
Nice keyboard, solid, beautiful, heavy and open source.
bye
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Nice article! Also learned about mert, thanks a lot for that!
You only have the Shine variant and not the Glow, correct? I am pondering buying the Glow for like a year now but I can’t make myself dedicating who knows how many weekends to fine-tune it to work exactly like I want.
I do have some small pains in shoulders and neck and in the upper back due to sometimes forgetting proper pose but it has been tolerable, and lately I have been able to reduce and eliminate them completely with the right exercises. So the ErgoDox Ez Glow, while it sounds really awesome to me, also sounds like a lot of work… And a cognitive dissonance when you inevitably have to type on a normal keyboard on a laptop eventually. 
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I use a Leopold FC750R PD Mechanical Keyboard (Cherry MX Brown Double Shot PBT) in the Grey-Blue color configuration. It is a TKL size, but I have been looking to go 60%, we will see with time.
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Correct, mine is a Shine. I got the blank, sculpted keycaps so the Glow wouldn’t have worked with them. There are a ton of people that swear by the Ergodox. If I could have been on it all the time, it would have been fine. I have the travel case and considered just taking it everywhere.
I just found that I value continuity above all else. There is no adjustment for me from a Kinesis Freestyle Pro when switching to my laptop keyboard. It’s mechanical, split, tentable, with integrated wrist rests, quiet, and has a standard layout. Pretty much checks all the boxes for me.
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I find that surprising since your keyboard is pretty far from standard with 3 columns (in total) of keys on the side of what normal keyboards have as their leftmost or rightmost limit. I am guessing it’s a smaller cognitive shock and you got used to the switch.
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My concept of “standard” is really a MacBook keyboard. I don’t use the leftmost two columns or the rightmost column so it doesn’t feel any different to me.
I map caps lock to esc on all my keyboards. The only difference beyond that is the placement of the Fn key, but I rarely use that.
I know some people have an issue adjusting to the split as they might typically hit “b” or “y” with a finger on the other hand. Luckily, I did not have that issue.
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After seeing it in this thread (and on DT) I tried the Planck but did not like it at all, and came to the conclusion that a mechanical probably keyboard isn’t for me.
Things I didn’t like about the Planck:
- Not low profile, meaning I would need a wrist rest, meaning it ends up taking too much room (with wrist rest) and too cumbersome to move (I frequently need to push my keyboard back to make notes).
- I hated the depressing ‘grey’ white colour (Apple’s Magic Keyboard is a warmer white)
- It felt cheap and plasticy.
- I probably should have picked different switches as I did not like the cherry browns.
- I missed the standard keys/layout.
So I’m back to the Magic keyboard, and for me a nicer Apple keyboard would be:
- Slightly bigger, with full size arrow keys, bigger modifier keys.
- More customisability via software, such as for allowing layers.
Perhaps an older style one cut into two with the num pad as a separate unit:
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After seeing it in this thread (and on DT) I tried the Planck but did not like it at all, and came to the conclusion that a mechanical probably keyboard isn’t for me.
You could try a low-profile Nuphy or Royalkludge mechanical keyboard. I think you might get a better feel with these.
I am using Royalkludge rk84 with brown switches and i like it a lot. Anyway currently i would choose low profile mechanical 
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Just an update on that front: still using UHK, the v1 pictured still works, nothing ever got broken. It did thousands of miles in my backpack without any case, had to clean it like twice inside from dirt but that’s about it.
My daily is now a UHK v2, which I really like as well but to be fair the differences are minimal, it’s been an upgrade rather than a new product.
Highly recommending UHK to anyone who is looking for a small size, split keyboard.
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Thanks @shzgfx, this Nuphy looks nice:
The sound with the blue switches reminds me of an old PC keyboard I had which I actually really liked typing on.
If you used liquid to clean it I hope you used Isopropyl - I killed an Apple Magic keyboard once by using washing detergent with warm soapy water, and I didn’t even use much 
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~10-11 years ago I started having wrist pain while using an old wired Apple keyboard. At which point I decided to try an ErgoDox, and it was very nice and relieved me of my wrist pain.
A couple years ago I switched to a MoErgo Glove 80, and I love it, can’t recommend it enough.
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I’ve went back and forth quite a bit. I used a wired Apple A1243 for many many years but a few years back my right thumb and wrist started to hurt so I got a ZSA Moonlander. I couldn’t get used to the columnar layout no matter how I tried and switching between a laptop and an external keyboard didn’t make it any easier. After that I got a Mistel Barocco MD770, which is a split keyboard with a non columnar layout. It was fine but had some reliability issues, forcing me to unplug/plug every now and then. Currently I’m quite happily using an Apple A1843 with an external trackpad, but I do wish the keyboard would be a bit smaller. A smaller version does exist but the fn key is wrongly placed imo, so it’s gonna be a no for me.
I’ve been looking at those low-profile Nuphy keyboards for some while now and I’d buy one right away if it was split in half. I miss having my trackpad between the keyboard halves, it worked great for me.
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I have the Nuphy Air and it’s great! Lubed the switches and the typing experience is great. I’ve also built a Corne Keyboard but i couldn’t find the time to adjust to a split keyboard yet. I first started to learn to type on an english layout because german umlauts don’t fit great on a small keyboard like this. It’s much easier for programming and now (neo)vim keys make sense
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Nuphy user here as well.
I’m using a nuphy gem80 (mocha) https://nuphy.com/collections/keyboards/products/gem80?variant=40756703723629
By far the best keyboard (haptics, weight, sound, quality) I’ve ever used with a nice retro mac vibe.
The Air96 is nice as well.
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I am guessing you guys don’t like backlit keyboards? To me no backlight means I wouldn’t buy the keyboard for a dollar. 
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