[tech] New clubroom peripherals

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On 24/08/2015 10:57 AM, Jordan Meerwald wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> We are looking at buying new keyboards, monitors, mice and speakers 
> for all clubroom machines that need them, does anyone have any 
> recommendations?
>
> We are looking for:
>
> Mice – ambidextrous, around $50-$70, Steelseries Sensei Raw and Razer 
> Deathadder are good options. These are the first priority as we have 
> several dying mice currently in use.
>

Last time we bought mice (or maybe the time before that), about 2 years ago,
we did a ask around.
No-one who is actually left-handed cares about ambidextrous mice.
Pretty much everyone just uses mouse with off hand.

Most mice that are not ambidexerious are still very useable with left 
hand anyway
-- they just have a thumb indent or a slight change to the shape.
Those that are not are will be not worth having for other reasons (eg 
crazy gamer-macro mouse)

If you look at our logitec mice, they are not truely ambidexerious.

Don't le ambidextrous  constrain you.
(We did the ask around because almost all the ambidextrous ones 
available at the time were really crap)


> Keyboards – mechanical, either Das or Ducky has been requested, 
> preferably a quieter switch for Windows machines
>

I continue to request something with buckling springs.
We can shift a quiet one from one of the linux machines to windows.

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