Since working from home, I’ve grown a bit tired of the glowing LEDs and click-clack of my Logitech gaming keyboard. What used to be a place of leisure and games is now also my place of work, so I’m looking to polish up my home office a bit and replace the gaming keyboard and mouse with something less distracting and more professional looking.
What are you currently using in your home office? Do you recommend it?
Do you prefer the gaming style or the standard office keyboards?
Wired or wireless?
Mechanical or plastic keys?
Easily best office mouse I’ve used has to be the logitech MX Master, perfect in every way imo.
And I go a little more gaming style for the keyboard but a bit halfway with the Razer Ornata (although I recently switched to the corsair k70 mk2), as it uses mecha membrane switches, which aren’t super clicky and have fairly low actuation points, so less typos when quickly writing up an email.
Wired & ergonomic for both. I have an sk-1000 keyboard that is born out of the 90’s. By far the most comfortable keyboard I’ve ever used. Mouse is a utechsmart Venus mmo mouse. Has programmable keys for those oft used functions. Totally worth it.
I agree on making sure it is as ergonomic as possible, since home offices are frequently lacking in this regard. My preference is for the Microsoft line of keyboards/mice that have the keyboard split. Since my shoulders are on the broad side (all bone, unfortunately) I need the extra space between my hands to be comfortable. I would go to BestBuy or some other store that has various keyboards on display and check them out for yourself.
As I use my mechanical keyboard for working from home. (It sounds like an old school type writer I love it) at the office I use a Logitech K850 paired with an M720 Mouse. Wireless. The mouse has three programmable buttons and the keyboard also has three programmable keys. The only thing that I had to get used to is this is a Windows/Mac keyboard. Instead of a windows key it is a start key. Works fine just looks odd. It is not a completely silent keyboard but quiet enough for the office as it does not bother anyone else. Action is good. Not as good as my gaming keyboard but good enough.
I’ve gotten these for some other people at the company and they’ve been well received. I still go into the office, but if I had to work from home I would be more than happy with these. Vertical mice have been a lot more comfortable for me to use for productivity.
My home stuff would probably work, my keyboard is a Ducky One with brown switches and an old SteelSeries Rival 100. They’re both very utilitarian designs
I’ve avoided becoming a m/kb connoisseur. I need to be able to sit at any computer and use it effectively. As long as I have a 10-key and a large backspace key, I’m good.
For the keyboard you might also just consider a change in key switch. A dominant portion of the mechanical keyboard market uses MX Blues which gives that click-clack a lot of people apparently enjoy. Try looking for something that has MX Cherry switches for example. All the durability of mechanical switches, a small ‘bump’ at the actuation point so you know the key has activated during quick typing, but none of the noise. I went from MX Blues to the Cherries on my home keyboard and haven’t even remotely regretted it.
I have quite a few keyboards. Most of them are TKLs and I have a few that are 60%. My “work” keyboard has Cherry MX Red switches and silicone rings to further dampen the sound. Mine is wired but I do have a couple wireless ones for my HTPC that I was thinking about connecting to get that minimalist home office look. I heard good things about 40% ortho-linear keyboards.
As for mice, I mainly use wireless “gaming” mice nowadays. I’ve got a couple from Logitech and Razer. My go-to is a Razer Atheris mainly because it’s compact, so I can dongle it up on a desktop and switch it over to Bluetooth on my laptop. It also has a Stormtrooper on it… actually that may be the only reason why I like it.