Clive Thompson
1 min readJul 26, 2022

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I will!

My desktop computer, by way of contrast, is a cheap Windows minitower, and recently I lent the keyboard (which was a 14 year old Dell keyboard in perfect working order) to my son so he could use it with his Windows laptop, since he had a few busted keys on his gaming laptop.

I was going to buy a cheap replacement keyboard for my Windows machine when I saw one that someone had put on the sidewalk here in Brooklyn, to give away for free. (That's a common Brooklyn thing, when you have gear or clothing you no longer want, you just put it out in front of your house on the sidewalk and usually someone scoops it up within an hour.)

So I grabbed that keyboard and brought it home and it works great.

Indeed, it is wildly superior to the one on my Mac!

So a keyboard that someone literally threw out is better than the one on my quite-expensive Macbook Pro.

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Clive Thompson
Clive Thompson

Written by Clive Thompson

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net

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