Keyboards can become intensely personal as muscle memory and familiarity often decide typing speed. Including the standard Dell, Microsoft and Apple QWERTY keyboards there has not been much deviation from that style. The iPhone for instance has a touchpad which is QWERTY based just like the Blackberry which came before it.

But color is a variation that is open for debate. The all black variant which Count Zero would be proud to patch into while looking for the Yakuza or something else unter-cool from das keyboard which apparently clacks like an old type writer too.

Or there are the colourful stickers from Photojojo which can be pasted on to a standard keyboard and provide color coded help for applications such as Final Cut and Photoshop.

Don't know if either of those is good or bad, I am sure those that are used to them love them and swear by them.

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