>>>Al
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>>>>Having used MS Natural keyboards for 5+ years, "regular" ones feel cramped and awkwards to me now. With the "naturals" your wrists truly are flat & straight.
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>>>>Highly recommended.
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>>>Agreed. Only think I don't like about them is the mouse is too far away.
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>>On the old MS Natural keyboards, yes.
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>>The new MS Natural keyboards are the same overall width as a 5 year old NTC "space saver" (i.e. thin edges around the keys) standard keyboard I have, and the Enter key is actually about an inch closer to the right edge of the keyboard than the NTC.
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>Is the Natural Keyboard Pro I got this month an "old" one? I don't know what would be a good solution. Going back to the traditional keyboard isn't it, and it's not a lot better. I just wish I didn't have to move my arm so far away from the keys to get to the mouse. It's a good 1-1/2 hand spans away. For medium sized woman that's a pretty fair amount of reach. Not that I'm not used to it.
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>Hm. If I could get a keyboard w/o the numeric keypad, that might work.

I hear ya. I just wanted to point out that with the current MS Natural keyboards, you're no further away from the mouse than with just about any other 10x key keyboard.

...at least, that's measuring with my Natural OEM (no extra buttons on the top row) that I got in February.