R-Go Ergonomic keyboard, Split design, Natural Typing Keyboard for Carpal Tunnel, Keyboard in 2 parts, With Break software, Ultra Thin, QWERTY(UK) Layout, USB Wired, Black

I love the fact I now have a portable split keyboard as I work away a lot.As with other reviews the key presses are quite stiff. Personally I like this but I can see why people don’t like it.The magnetic joining of the keyboard is also great when I am working with colleagues I can just push the keyboard together to give them a regular small keyboard to use.The micro usb also makes this very very flexible. I have ruined keyboards before with wind in the cable around when travelling. This keyboard allows me to unplug the lead completely and no more knackered cables.

Love the concept and the slim form factor. It feels really great to use and I love having the option to recombine and move things aroundI have one big problem with it:It's a cable nightmare. Seems obvious but with added factors. I ordered this listing and then the separate numpad unit. The keyboard came with micro usb ports and the numpad with usb c. And the provided cables are mostly pretty short. Which isn't detailed particularly clearly on the page so make sure you get the right cables. The usb c ports work just fine but unfortunately the micro usb ports are fiddly and by virtue of the design of that port type any wiggling around of the cables results in disconnection/reconnection. So just picking up and moving the keyboard around can be really annoying and result in fiddling with usb ports and cables to get them picked up again. Imo making moving the keyboard around a frustration is pretty antithetical to its purposeAnd GOOD LUCK finding a micro usb to micro usb cable to connect the two halves. It's actually kind of astonishing that they would use micro usb ports on this unit at allI would give ANYTHING if there were any way to turn out a wireless version of this product. Or at least a listing of the keyboard that uses usb-cAnother smaller complaint is the lack of media/custom keys. It might be nice to have some bindable options to help smooth the transition to the keyboardOverall feels competently made, albeit with the typical lack of mod-cons that we're always relegated to on the ergonomic marketIf you plan on getting this, setting it up and then never moving it, it would be a great purchase to make. But if you like to incorporate variation, for ease and for your health, this will unfortunately bring a bunch of annoying little caveats to your workflowI wish it were possible to have both the convenience of what some standard keyboards offer AND the ergonomics of something like thisEDITAfter being locked into this keyboard for quite some time now, I've found that it's incredibly fragile. I've had to buy it several times now, after having it break on me from pretty much any of the most mildest forms of transportation. Which hurts at the steep price point (which doesn't match the build quality or functionality you get)In my prior searches I've found this keyboard seems to be a surprisingly unique form factor. And at this point I'm feeling burdened by the market's lack of options that keep me coming back here. I have to pull this down to a 1 star and I'm going to search the import market instead

Great from an ergonomic perspective. You can move the two pieces around separately and it’s thin and flat so you wrists aren’t being flexed up and down. However, it is ridiculously temperamental. Given it is hard wired I don’t understand why but one minute you can type, the next you can’t. It connect and reconnects itself without you even touching it sometimes. Other times you have have to unplug and replug several times to get it going again. Then on some occasions it’s fine for the whole day?! I’m only keeping it because of the ergonomic benefits. Shame really as a pretty expensive piece of kit.

An excellent flat laptop style keyboard very good for my wrists.The product information doesn't mention it but both halves are keyboards in their own right. You can therefore plug each half into the left and right side of your system rather than have a cable connecting both halves together. This leads to a greater (and tidier) separation if needed.Another feature, not promoted, is that the two halves of the keyboard are USB hubs (two ports on the left and one on the right) allowing other accessories like mice to be connected too.

For the price, this is terrible. The keys type well and split-join together. I am disappointed this doesn't work with USB 2 and requires USB 3 (that's my suspicion after trying out different USB ports to make the thing work), this shouldn't be the case, it's a keyboard and nothing intense... The lack of a wrist rest and the ability to tilt the keyboard does not justify the price. I was hoping this is Europe's take on American's Ergodox EZ but it ended up being disappointing.

If you plan to use this with a Mac, then you will need to install Karabiner (or something like it) and also mess around with Keyboard Layouts. Once that's done, the keyboard is a joy to use.It works as two separate keyboards, hence the need for Karabiner to get the right shift key working with the left side of the keyboard (and vice versa).It has a proper UK layout, with @ and # near to Enter and " above the 2, with \ and | to the right of the left shift key.This makes a big difference to anyone doing a lot of commandline work or Perl programming, and I love it. The only problem is that Apple have never heard of this keyboard layout, and you will need to track down and install a working Keyboard Layout file to get it working as expected. This is *not* the keyboard's fault.Other plus points are the magnets to hold the two halves together in a traditional keyboard layout. This makes it easy to stow flat against the laptop in your bag. I would also have liked the option for magnets to hold the two halves back-to-back for storing in a pocket.The sizing is good, and there's enough travel on the keys to make typing comfy.For some reason, the logo above the F1 key continuously cycles through rainbow colours. It doesn't mean anything, and I find it a little distracting (though a bit of tape will soon fix that). If you absolutely need rainbow LEDs on your keyboard, r-go have you covered.The only downside is that this is a lot of money for a keyboard. It's a good keyboard, sure, but then so is the Microsoft Natural 4000 for half the money. If you like the Kinesis Freestyle 2, and can afford it, this is a great portable alternative.