Better IMHO. The integration of pointing devices, especially the trackballs really changes the game.
You really just never take your hands off the keyboard, everything is in nice close range, etc. :)
You really just never take your hands off the keyboard, everything is in nice close range, etc. :)
Aside...
Datahand moved RSI pain from my wrist to my knuckles. These keyboards don't magically prevent all RSI, which is ... only obvious if you actually think on it, which i didn't back then.
I know I personally found mouse keys unusable for day to day use, and another local DH users thought much the same, we had other pointers we used. (I used a fingerworks trackpad back when, clamped onto the side of the laplander, the other guy used a mouse, if I remember right.)
The amount of time wasted moving my hand from one keyboard-half or the other to the mouse and back was very substantial, and it meant compromising on a comfortable position of both.
Svalboard is way more comfortable!