Adesso Tru-Form Keyboard

I got an email about the Adesso Tru-Form Keyboard so I decided to take a peek. It looks similar to other split keyboards I've seen, except it has a "Glidepoint Touchpad" for a mouse incorporated into the board, below the space keys. That part looks very similar to the touchpads you see on some laptops. I think the mouse was one of the prime aggrevators in my RSI, so any mouse alternatives that might diminish some of the click-click-clickiness sound good to me.

You see a picture of, and read more about, the board at Tru-Form at Adesso Tru-Form Keyboard Review and at the Adesso home page

Comments

[Casey Allen Shobe]

This looks just like a keyboard I had about 7 years ago, except it's black.

I had a similar model with a touchpad underneath the arrow keys, which I actually liked a bit better, because even though the touchpad got in the way sometimes (it does sometimes when it's centered under the space as well), it was in a more logical place for the right-handed touchpadder. I ended up not really liking either keyboard, nor the Microsoft one which I also tried, and have been using the plain sort of keyboard since.

I always did like touchpads though - I bought one of the first ones when they came out as a standalone PS/2 unit in 1995 or so, for a cost of $75. Though expensive for a mouse at the time, I thought it was a brilliant idea that would become popular overnight. I wasn't completely wrong, as it's become the standard on laptop machines, but it seems nobody actually likes using them for desktop workstations.

I prefer the standalone touchpoint model because I can move it wherever I like, on either the right or left side. It's also worth mention that I don't like keyboards with a numeric keypad, as I never use it and it forces me to have to reach farther for the pointing device if it's on the right side of the keyboard. If I am using a keyboard with a numeric keypad, I generally put the mouse on the left to balance things out.