By: BrotherCaine
It's also impossible to touch on my Android touch screen when I'm not looking at it. That's one huge advantage of a physical keyboard.
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I still miss my Nokia 6800 desperately. It was the smartest non-smartphone I ever had, easy typing, decent calendar, just bulletproof. I'll still take a keyboard over a touchscreen any day. I used to...
View ArticleBy: Artw
Various Asus tablety things with keyboards. There;s also a quite nice array of iPad cases with built in keyboards these days.
View ArticleBy: BrotherCaine
They could stick all the Insert/Delete/PageUp/PageDown/Cursor crap to the left and leave the numpad on the right to center the alpha keys. I still miss my Nokia 6800 desperately. It was the smartest...
View ArticleBy: bonaldi
It is a full-sized keyboard -- same size as the standard Apple keyboard is. They didn't put a numberpad on it because that's a terrible idea on a laptop -- it forces the bit you use all the time off to...
View ArticleBy: caution live frogs
In some ways we've gone to the opposite extreme. The 17" MacBook Pro, for example, looks ridiculous with its tiny laptop keyboard inside that enormous case. I can't understand why Apple didn't put a...
View ArticleBy: SouthCNorthNY
More folding computing: The unreleased UMPC with a folding keyboard, Samsung SPH-P9200.Nokia's folding E70 cellphone.The Kohjinsha dual screen netbook.Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds dual screen notebook....
View ArticleBy: Samizdata
I loved the ThinkPad I used to have. The TrackPoint still strikes me as a brilliant portable pointing device. That I don't manage to accidentally drag my thumb across like my touchpads.
View ArticleBy: fritley
I actually still use mine sometimes. I have a pcmcia wireless card for it and everything. It's running freebsd 4.11, and is fairly responsive to use (except firefox takes a long time to start.) The...
View ArticleBy: Hogshead
Brightghost, this video gives a very good view of the Psion 5/5mx keyboard sliding out as the device opens (from 2:30 onwards) as well as close-ups showing the quality of the keys themselves. (Actually...
View ArticleBy: synthetik
It's like that Optimus keyboard but it exists. What are you talking about? I used to have one. It was a terrible keyboard. I bought it from ThinkGeek. Here.
View ArticleBy: brightghost
It's like that Optimus keyboard but it exists. ...as a 3d-rendered concept demo. Also that is about the cheesiest tech presentation I've ever seen — I thought it was a parody until the jokes failed to...
View ArticleBy: schmod
I'm still grousing about the switch from 4:3 to 16:9 laptop screens. For whatever it's worth, virtually no laptops have an actual 16:9 screen ratio. They may be "widescreen," but the ratio is still...
View ArticleBy: porpoise
For micro-PCs/Psion-5-replacement, there's the Sony Vaio UX series, and someone's modded one to run a Core2Duo CPU. That butterfly keyboard is freaking fly, but the author of the last link has a good...
View ArticleBy: Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese
The aluminum case on my 2006 macbook pro is literally bowed from hours of drunken abuse. I figured "No, biggie, this is what happens to computers," Dude, your computer is not Stella Kowalski. Be kind!
View ArticleBy: Artw
Yeah, I'm still on the search for a Psion 5 replacement. Netbooks are in the vicinity, but not quite there. And more and more netbook manufacturers are moving away from what made them Psion 5 like anyway.
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