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I've been through both types over the years including a stint with a microsoft ergo keyboard (carpal tunnel or at least nerve issues), so I feel ya.
But mainly my point is the screams about e.g. 'apple charges $100 for a keyboard!" (or whatever the krik du jour is) are off base. Good quality keyboards are not cheap - and frankly the time spent figuring out what is a good keyboard is a cost, too. (Irony their main laptop keyboard was so mediocre and problematic for so long- that kept me from buying).
And that general quality for a premium largely holds true across a lot of different product offerings with apple. (I'm still disappointed they dropped the airport / wifi routers - I haven't found a comparable set of router offerings that are as simple, reliable and functional at a reasonable price as the airport series. Still using several of them. They were never as whiz bang on features but man, so many routers from other companies are awful)
Sometimes specific apple products are really in a great sweet spot of price/quality/capability, sometimes less so. But it's pretty rare they're junk.
The importance of brand/marketing (that some make fun of): with brands I trust, I'll go out and plop down $100 for e.g. that (now mythical) keyboard without too much worry. Everyone has brands like that for clothes or whatever that works for them. That's not just marketing. (And sure, some companies eventually destroy their brand by making bad stuff - and they can't fix it by marketing genius)
Of course, not for everyone, do what you want, etc. I'm not a fanatic for apple stuff, just I've had better experiences with their stuff than any other company's over a long period of time.
