Reddit reviews Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 5000
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Comfort Curve design promotes a more natural wrist posture.Bluetooth wireless technology allows connection without cords, transceivers or a USB port.The minimalistic, slim design makes it lightweight and convenient to carry.High-quality construction designed for travel.
> I was wondering if anyone has made a similar setup for coding.
I have a very similar setup, using Vim and an iOS SSH client. I'm using Microsoft's Bluetooth keyboard, which is incredibly quiet, comfortable, thin and light (the picture doesn't do it justice).
I prefer Prompt to iSSH. It's slower and lacks some of iSSH's bells and whistles, but it has vastly better extended key support. This may not be an issue if you have the Apple keyboard. I don't know.
However, rather than using the iPad as a remote terminal, I code directly on the device. I jailbreak the device and run OpenSSH. My SSH sessions are connected to the localhost where I use an iOS build of Vim (a console build, not the GUI Vim in the app store).
I'm using the MOAI SDK, which allows me to build a native host in XCode which is scriptable via Lua. So I code my entire game directly on the device using Vim.
It's neat. But doing it in a professional capacity, like the article in the OP, strikes me as profoundly hipsterish. I did it just to see if I could, because I'm a geek and it's neat, and I wouldn't dissuade anyone from trying it for those reasons. However, the screen is freakin' tiny, multitasking is weak at best, and the software landscape is terribad for real production tools. There's a handful of SSH clients, which will run you $10-$15 bucks, all of which suck giant donkey balls compared to the shittiest free client available on a real operating system.
If you're wondering if it's possible, the answer is yes. If you're wondering if this makes a viable alternative to a laptop, when you really need to get shit done as efficiently as possible, it's a resounding no.
I personally love the Microsoft Mobile Bluetooth Keyboard. It's actually a really good keyboard of its own right, not qualified by the fact that it's portable. Most mobile keyboards just seem mushy and crappy to me, and I'm not particularly fond of chiclet keyboards. This one is actually better than most laptop keyboards and is a bit ergonomically designed and has excellent travel. It's not super overpriced too like a lot of "Android"/'iPad" keyboards tend to be. The only drawback is that you don't have some of the extra mobile specific hotkeys but I don't think that's really a common use case, and if you're really enterprising you can rebind keys on the keyboard to special keys.
MS 5000, if you can try it in a store first.
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Bluetooth-Mobile-Keyboard-5000/dp/B005HU0LX4/
I have a laptop I plug into a 30-33" tv (I don't remember exact size) on my desk when I'm done working. I use this cheap keyboard and the Taipan. I got a washable keyboard after hating this one.
Medigel is set to middle mouse button, ops packs to back-left, thermal clips to button behind the scroll wheel, missles to 5 (no shortcuts).
Skill 1 is set to Q, 2 to E, 3 to V and the back-left mouse button. The two right mouse buttons are for scripts (spacebar to stay alive, tested one with the Mattock).