I love it when my quietness OCD leads me to discover something perfectly designed for what I’m looking for. I feel so vindicated!
We just moved to a new house and my office was situated right across from our daughter Ella’s room. It is convenient if she needs anything, but also the noise computers can generate can be a problem.
Especially the keyboard.
Ella can’t stand the sound of typing on a keyboard and I can’t blame her. The sounds of computer typing like there are two caffeinated mice running around in a cage. Unfortunately, since I write a lot, that’s pretty much all I do on my computer. Additionally, I also owned the cheapest old PC keyboard in history and setting it on a wooden desk just made it sound even more like there were squirrels trapped in the walls. So I needed a solution fast.
After a few fruitless searches (why does Best Buy keep so few keyboards on their shelves anyway?) I found the perfect winner.
The Logitech K300
It satisfied all my demands:
- It was relatively cheap.
- It didn’t need to be wireless.
- Had to have normal, full-sized keys.
- The keys are quiet!
In fact, this thing is nearly silent. I was impressed.
It also had the additional benefits of:
- Being low profile which I find easier to type on.
- Backlit button bar on the top which just looks kind of cool.
So if you’re in the market for a quieter keyboard, I’d consider this one. It’s priced at about $30.00. Anything cheaper seemed to be the old noisy kind, and there are a lot of more expensive models for gamers and ergo-fetishists. I chose the middle-way.
The price sure is right and now I can type and Ella can get her snoozes without interruption.
