Chassepot’s mechanical keyboard is super tall and super silly
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I love a compact keyboard. Once I’ve got a cup of coffee, a glass of water, mouse, headphones, and a notebook open on my desk, I don’t want to dedicate any space to a bigger keyboard than what I need. But this approach comes with trade-offs. When you use a keyboard without a function row, for example, you have to get pretty used to holding down multiple keys just to perform fairly simple commands, and inputting a lot of numbers can be a chore.
The Chassepot Keyboard C1000 is an attempt to get the best of both worlds. It’s still just as narrow as a compact keyboard like the Happy Hacking Keyboard, but it includes all of the regular full-size Windows keyboard keys, meaning there are multiple keys to access the function row or...