I'm hooked on low-profile keyboards and I'll (probably) never go back

Seriously: Why even bother with chunky, clunky, thick keyboards anymore?

In the goings-on of daily life, your choice of keyboard isn't likely to rank among the most important things you have to think about. Heck, it's unlikely it'll even crack the top 20. That said, we could all be doing so much better with the piece of kit that a lot of us spend hours in front of every day.

Or at least that's the conclusion I've come to over the past couple of years as I've discovered the world of low-profile keyboards. Barring accessibility needs, which trump any other preference by far, I'm puzzled as to why these slim typing marvels are still a relatively small portion of the best keyboards on the market. And it's not all about looks (though, to be fair, they often do look great).

Low-profile keyboards: Losing the chunk



I spent most of my computing life typing much as I'm sure most people have: tapping and typing away on large, chunky keyboards. That includes the basic whatever-came-with-th...