I've switched to using a laptop style, short-travel keyboard. As a matter of fact, I just stocked up on some spares, anticipating the product's inevitable demise.
I also have a comfortable but firm 3M gel palm rest (I don't actually rest my wrists on it). No longer sold -- of course.
I was finding the normal keyboard stroke length -- combined with the increasing binding during travel that inevitably occurs with today's budget keyboards -- to be increasingly tiring. To the point where I think I was subconsciously adjusting my workflow to avoid typing.
I'd just use the laptop keyboard, but they insist these days on manufacturing laptops with a "ginormous" shelf in front of the keyboard. As a result, the edge of that shelf ends up pressing into my wrists.
(On older models, years back, the shelf would end somewhere under my palms and so was not a problem. I may try a small form factor laptop (e.g. Lenovo X220) the next time I change machines, if I have a choice.)
I also have a comfortable but firm 3M gel palm rest (I don't actually rest my wrists on it). No longer sold -- of course.
I was finding the normal keyboard stroke length -- combined with the increasing binding during travel that inevitably occurs with today's budget keyboards -- to be increasingly tiring. To the point where I think I was subconsciously adjusting my workflow to avoid typing.
I'd just use the laptop keyboard, but they insist these days on manufacturing laptops with a "ginormous" shelf in front of the keyboard. As a result, the edge of that shelf ends up pressing into my wrists.
(On older models, years back, the shelf would end somewhere under my palms and so was not a problem. I may try a small form factor laptop (e.g. Lenovo X220) the next time I change machines, if I have a choice.)