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clonex10100
155
Nov 12, 2017
What do people use these for?
This is a real question by the way, I just can't think of what I would want a six key keypad for.
pLaStiKMaN
195
Nov 12, 2017
clonex10100some people just want to watch the world burn
Pawnerd
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Pawnerd
Nov 12, 2017
clonex10100Good question! This keyboard has many uses since it can be programmed to do a theoretical infinity number of things. A few example user cases can be seen in the comments, like people that program it to play games. Instead of using the keyboard of a laptop, people program this mechanical keyboard with cherry mx switches to do the requested actions in-game. People also use it to send default messages in the game-chat, such as "Good game!".
I've also seeb people using it for media control to pause/play multimedia and to mute/change the sound volume.
A third thing people do is setting it up for programming/software development. They simply use it to write pieces of code they use often with the press of a button. Idk if you know anything about programming, but examples of this are for/while-loops and framework specific codes which are often used in frameworks like Laravel for authentication.
Many things can be done with this keyboard. If you have a repititive task, it's possible to make your life easier with this.
PoekRose
76
Nov 17, 2017
PawnerdWhile your response is great, you sort of stereotype "work" into programming. I've gotten macro pads for all my data entry, purchasing, and finance co-workers. The data entry people have 'copy', 'paste' and 'alt-tab' programmed in as that's ~80% of their job. Finance and purchasing have Vlookup's installed... and the eCom people (me) have URL builders programmed in (I manage Amazon, so getting from ASIN to URL is a lot of my day).
I've got about 10 macro boards in the office (at various co-workers desks) and it's been a blast "training" people on what pressing a button can do.
Pawnerd
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Pawnerd
Nov 17, 2017
PoekRoseThe stereotypes I gave are from friends and people I work with. Friends play games and people I work with are software developers. I sure believe that there are people that use this or other macropads for stuff I have never considered. Data entry employeea can probably increase their efficiency tremendously by using macropads.
Another purpose of a macropad I hadn't thought of myself is using it to display novelty keycaps. In that case you don't even need a computer :).
Would you mind sharing what kind of macropads you use and how many keys are generally used by the average worker in your office space?
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