natural keyboard pro died, need replacement suggestions?

[jkresh]

Have a 3+ year old natural keyboard pro which has gotten serious use and has been going for a few months. Cleaned it today (rubbing alcohol and compressed air) let it dry for a few hours, and now it appears to be useless. E only works about half the time (though it registered as pressed every time and on my desktop if I hit e it goes to all shortcuts with e but in word/notepad it wont type e) and spacebar no longer works. So I need a replacement ASAP (though I will leave it unplugged and upside-down and hope that it works in the morning. Any suggestions, it appears that if I stick with Microsoft I am stuck either with wireless or going back to ps2 which I would prefer not to do, or I could go to the natural keyboard elite and give up on all the extra buttons which I use. Any suggestions are appreciated.

 

[jkresh]

now i am thinking of gettting an elite and a nostromo n52 and using the n52 for programible buttons and macros, benefits of both worlds?

 

[CJP]

I've got a n52 and it's great, especially the versatile programmablility. Only downsides are the buttons are stickier than most keyboards and the thumb buttons are awkward (one is hard to press (orange) and the jump/space button is a bit hard to reach). Overall though a great little device.