The best keyboard ever is back

You may not know the Model F by name, but you know it by sound – the musical thwacking of flippers slapping away. The sound of the ’80s office. The IBM Model F greeting the world in 1981 with a good ten pounds of die-cast zinc and keys that crash down on buckling metal springs as they descend. It’s a sensation today’s clickiest keyboards chase, but will never catch. And now it’s coming back.

I used several of these growing up, and I’ve come to understand I’m the only one who didn’t – and doesn’t – like mechanical keyboards one bit – I find them tiring and way too loud. I want the thinnest possible keyboard with the shortest possible travel while still having a decent, satisfying, but very quiet click. I find Apple’s Magic Keyboard is the exact right keyboard for me, but I also know I’ll be one of the very few, especially on a site like OSAlert.

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