Cheap Keyboard - but good!
- 9 June 2012 09:01177209For ages now I have been struggling with a knackered Dell keyboard. It has had some bashing for sure, years of use, everyday bash bash bash and so on. The keys had stopped returning so I had to type everything twice. My i's disappeared, then my u's, then my r's.....
But now with no expense spared I have unleashed the contents of the piggybank and lashed out on a new keyboard for the staggering sum of £4.97 at Tesco. This is what I am using right now in earnest for the first time.
It is soft and pliable and the keys are less murder on the hands with silky action. I've had years of injections to keep my arms working, I'm almost robotic
, had to even become left handed in order to continue...so now this feels silky and easier on the hands and arms. Always a consideration when you are getting a bit older.
So..Not bad at all for a miserly £4.97. So I would recommend it to anyone...so far, well you cant go wrong at that price. It is NOT wireless, they are quite a bit more expensive. This one is useable with multimedia, not quite sure what multimedia use means but there we are.
Quite a relief over the other one...which I must remember to drop off quietly in the lane behind Jacks !!......only kidding, dont want Roger after me !!lol
email: dover7@msn.com - 9 June 2012 09:16177213had the same problem a while back a new one cost me a tenner from the shop in priory street, i thought that was cheap enough.
tesco seem determined to muscle in on every type of small business until it is only the major supermarkets left. - 9 June 2012 09:32177217Yes these things have come down hugely in price since the old days. I think they used to be about the equivalent of about £25 or more in relevent terms..or to put it another way, in todays prices. Have just looked at the box and it was made in China. No surprises there, but will China continue to be able to produce goods at this low price in future. There are some reports over the past few days that their economy is stalling, hitting the buffers, faltering etc.
Yes Tesco are involved in almost everything nowadays from TV's to computers to cameras to clothing and the obvious food etc etc.email: dover7@msn.com - 9 June 2012 15:10177250Last year, one computer shop in Dover was selling 3 new keyboards for £5.
Sounds like the last days of boom and bust: use and throw away!
Old keyboards have bits of soldering that are worth pennies, as too is the plastic.
Old computers have bits of gold and platinum that are worth pounds.
China churns them out, India recycles them.
The recycled blocks of materials are then transported back to China, where the cycle continues: new computers, new keyboards, boom and bust...
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9 June 2012 15:53177260no alex,its called work creation. - 9 June 2012 16:50177277getting back to paul's comments on the future of the chinese economy i saw a piece on a news station that put a dampener on their future.
the policy of one child per family has meant that as manufacturing has boomed the number of workers hasn't meaning that wage demands have grown.
a chap that owned a factory was looking to relocate abroad to lower production costs.
as a side issue many old people had no-one to look after them and the pensions and benefits system was mainly non-existent.
not forgetting the problems in europe means their main markets are not buying as much as they used to. - 9 June 2012 18:08177297e bay