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My dream laptop: - Remove the function keys, remove escape, and all other ancient stuff like Sys Rq and Pause / Break, remove arrow keys, remove Page Up etc.
by gkya 10y ago
My dream laptop:
- Remove the function keys, remove escape, and all other ancient stuff like Sys Rq and Pause / Break, remove arrow keys, remove Page Up etc. Swap the places of the trackpad and the keyboard so the keyboard is closer to me and the mouse is farther away. I use the former most of the time, and it's more ergonomical that way.
- No moving parts; have a 64GB SSD disk, a 4-8GB RAM, a decent CPU that supports virtualisation, open-source compatible hardware (i.e. run any Linux and any BSD systems on it, OpenBSD for me, especially), no cam or mic, generally no recording devices, have a decent speaker, USB ports, two jacks, one for the mic one for the earphones.
- Thin, light, 15.6"-13" in size.
- Battery that guarantees me at least 3-4 hrs of time, under load. Weight or thinness can be compromised to achieve that.
- rahrahrah 10y ago> remove escape, ( ... ) remove arrow keys, remove Page Up etc. Do you even code bro?
- gkya 10y agoI run an emacs/vtwm/FreeBSD setup and I've done professional coding in the recent past and have very recently gotten two patches into GNU Emacs, though I'm a humanities undergrad nowadays.
- rahrahrah 10y ago> I run an emacs/vtwm/FreeBSD setup Not sure what that has to do with coding, but go on > I've done professional coding in the recent past and have very recently gotten two patches into GNU Emacs, though I'm a humanities undergrad nowadays. Yes exactly, you don't code, that's why you think it's a good idea to remove page up/down.
- grapeshot 10y agoWell I guess I finally know who this was made for: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/31/4380132/acer-aspire-r7-review http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/31/4380132/acer-aspire-r7-rev...
- gkya 10y agoThanks a lot! I'll see if it's any good in hardware and if it's possible to swap some things out if need be. I'm curious why home-row-all-the-time people weren't interested in this, as the palm-resting because of the large gap between the closer edge of the laptop and the keyboard is not really ergonomic.