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Or the USB to PS/2 adapters.

USB to PS/2 adapters don’t work, they only work if they aren’t an adapters but a passthrough which means the keyboard has to natively support PS/2.

The problem with PS/2 is that most motherboards today don’t have it anymore so you can’t use passthrough adapters.

> The problem with PS/2 is that most motherboards today don’t have it anymore

About two thirds of all current motherboards have PS/2.

Not mainstream / enthusiast / gaming ones check the IO those, ASUS and EVGA dropped it completely, Gigabyte offers it on some motherboards, same goes for MSI and ASRock.

Also the last gaming keyboard which still had native PS/2 support was the old non-macro enabled CM quickfire.

ASUS definitely still makes several motherboards with PS/2 ports. My Prime X370 Pro has one, and the updated X470 version still has it. The Prime B350M even has separate ones instead of the combo.

none of the Asus z370 ones have it, and almost none of the z270 had it either.

Despite Ryzen AMD is still negligible as far as market share goes.

AMD's overall marketshare is still low because of near-zero laptop or OEM penetration but their share of retail CPU sales (i.e. the only people that buy motherboards) is nearly 50% according to every recent sales report I've seen.

https://segmentnext.com/2018/05/23/amd-cpu-market-share-46/

https://wccftech.com/intel-coffee-lake-amd-ryzen-cpu-market-...

edit: Also they do have a Z370 board with PS/2, the ROG STRIX Z370-G GAMING.

AMD isn’t anywhere near 50% market share in overall sales when it comes to enthusiast hardware.

It looks like you got the only mono from Asus that comes with a PS/2 port other than the Apex: https://www.anandtech.com/show/11860/z370-motherboards-asus-...

ASUS has literally dozens of current motherboards with PS/2 ports, including 5 Z370 models. I really have no idea where you get the idea that they "dropped it completely".

https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N...

https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&I...

Geizhals lists 63 Z370 mainboards for me. 48 of those have PS/2. That's 76 %.

https://geizhals.de/?cat=mbp4_1151v2&xf=317_Z370%7E7088_PS%2... (I don't know a similar English/US site)

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