Note: The Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop also includes a goofy mouse, but I won’t be using it, so this is solely a review of the keyboard. I was hoping the Sculpt would be a worthy successor that also fixed some of the 4000’s shortcomings. And it’s cheap-feeling and ugly as sin by today’s standards, but keep in mind that it’s 8 years old - it was designed when PCs looked like this.ĭespite its flaws, the 4000 is a good keyboard overall for four reasons that have always made it stand out from other ergonomic keyboards: it has a standard key layout, it’s available in brick-and-mortar stores for easy tryouts and returns, it’s very comfortable, and it’s very cheap. It also never had a usable wireless version. The 4000’s biggest flaws are its mushy membrane keys and its tremendous size, which forces right-handed mousers to keep their mice too far away. When the new Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop was announced, I preordered one immediately: as a huge fan of its ancient predecessor, the Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000, I knew it had promise. And that I own a 1-kilogram tungsten cylinder. Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard shown with other objects for scale and subtle evidence that I’m productive and/or hip. A programmer, writer, podcaster, geek, and coffee enthusiast.Ībout Microsoft’s Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard
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