The great keyboard showdown.
My MS Natural Keyboard is grimy. Not just the key surfaces (which I haven’t cleaned in a while, now that the ‘board lives at the office and not at home where I have numerous surfactants close to hand), but the keypress mechanisms. The more force I have to use to push each key through its accreted gunk, the less “natural” the keyboard becomes, veering instead into the general milieu of “tiring” and “painful.”
I’m not sure how effectively I can repair the key action. I suppose I could do the old keyboard-in-the-dishwasher trick to get it all soapy clean, but I’m afraid the end result will be even stickier keys (the detergent having stripped off whatever magic lube is supposed to be in there).
While I mull my keyboard’s prospects for recovery, why don’t you all tell me why I’m using the wrong keyboard and what I should really get is some expensive Keyboard From The New World (Op. 9). Humbly proffer your suggestions in the comments.