Inside the World's Greatest Keyboard

Let's take a look at the Model M's competition. Here we have a modern, generic, $1-bill-of-materials, Chinese-made keyboard, the kind they toss out as confetti during parades and give away with PC clones as mere afterthoughts in a mouse-centric world. Compared with the tanklike Model M, this fragile, 1.5-pound keyboard is a lightweight (you could easily break it over your knee). Like most modern keyboards, it includes several extraneous keys and buttons that either annoy the seasoned typist or threaten your computer's stability because of the drivers required to make them work.