Studio

TEX keyboards such as the Shinobi are probably a better choice anyway besides being cheaper, as the HHKB Studio is the weird non-Topre black sheep of the lineup. That said, if the Studio had Topre, the premium may have been worth it.

The integrated pointing device is awesome! The gesture pads get in the way more than they help IMO, but they’re easy to disable. There’s too much “lip” in the front, but I understand why they did it (to put mouse buttons there). It would be nicer if that lip extension was limited to the area in the

HHKB hoarder here, if you are after the classic topre feel, forget about the studio, gesture pad is cool until you put a wrist rest there and the two front gesture pads become unusable. Love the mouse buttons, I just wish they have the topre version for Studio.