This is just a great breakdown of the Dvorak keyboard. Many times I've thought about switching to Dvorak - I know it's better on the hands, has a much more logical layout, and enables faster typing. But the problems are easily laid out as well. I love my Microsoft Natural Keyboard - I can't find a date on it, but I've had it for a good seven years now - I really could use a new one as this one is quite nasty and in need of cleaning, but the new Microsoft Natural Keyboards have a strange arrow key layout I don't like. Enough about my keyboard - back to Dvorak. I've never switched because I love my keyboard and I'm quite good at touch-typing with QWERTY (anywhere from 70-90 wpm). If I switched, it would take some learning and I'd probably revert back to QWERTY every so often, forgetting I'm on Dvorak. If only I had learned Dvorak as a kid growing up with my first couple computers, I'd be set today. Yet another reason to dislike Apple (I learned most of my computing skills on an Apple ][c at grade school and an Apple ][gs at home). From there I graduated to an IBM 386-25mhz and from there to a Pentium I-100mhz and then my Pentium II-350mhz (still running in my mom's room) and then to the computer I'm on now, though I've upgraded the crap out of it and there isn't one piece of hardware (other than the case) that is from the original computer - the original parts are scattered throughout my other machines. Perhaps I'll document my computing history in another entry.

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