I had some wrist issues a couple of years ago and that pushed me to go to the split keyboard route.
I really love this keyboard. I’m someone who actually quite likes the low profile, laptop style keys, so I didn’t know if I’d enjoy this set up. But I quickly grew to love it.
Bright lights and flashing stuff isn’t really my thing, so I’m really glad I was able to find these keycaps that’s just look nice and clean. Underneath are the most silent cherry reds I could find (I’m also not a big fan out loud keyboards. Blasphemy, I know! 😃).
And for my biggest nerd cred: I’m so glad I can save my precious Dvorak layout straight to the keyboard. No longer have to deal with Windows’ layout switching.
Nice setup! What was the total cost? Looking into something similar. What made you choose the lily over other alternatives?
Oh thanks!
I think all told I spent about $250, but $70 of that was paying someone to do the initial soldering. It’s something I probably could have done, but I decided it’d take me forever to do it.
I didn’t have any specific reason to go with this one other than that I know some people with some Ergodox, and while they are neat, I just wanted something different. And all told I saved $100 with this one. I don’t feel like I’m losing any functionality, either, which is nice, and theoretically I could add more stuff to the screens that the Ergodox obviously doesn’t have.
I also like that they are really small and pretty thin, so taking it with me in my bag isn’t that hard. And setting up on a table is easy and doesn’t take up too much space.