Keyboards: The Verge's choices shed light on everyday trade-offs

The Verge has published a selection of keyboards used by its team members. The overview reveals varied preferences: ergonomics, features, key feel, sound or appearance. These are accounts of everyday use, whose value lies in the trade-offs described rather than in a systematic comparison of the devices.

One account about the Kinesis Freestyle Pro explains a choice motivated by wrist pain and the comfort experienced with tilting accessories and palm rests. This documents an individual preference. The account does not establish a general medical benefit from the keyboard.

Noise is another criterion. One team member describes giving up mechanical keyboards when their sound became disruptive during calls. After using the Logitech MX Keys S, this person says they switched to an Apple Magic Keyboard to gain Touch ID and reduce the need to enter their password in 1Password.

Another account presents the Logitech G713 as a choice that saves space compared with a previous keyboard equipped with a numeric keypad and programmable keys. These examples suggest a simple approach to choosing a keyboard: start with the actual constraints of the desk, calls and software used. The selection does not, however, provide any common testing protocol that would establish one model as superior to the others.