>I am still not the "typist" I should be. I have used those split ones - but my skills are not yet at the point where it would offer me (or my patrons) any advantage. I still prefer wind-up mainspring watches - what do I know!:-)
That's right - the curved keyboard doesn't really offer an advantage in this case. But for ten-finger typing, it helps a lot - you don't get tired as quickly.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)