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"carry another keyboard" is a bullshit excuse with a laptop. There is no way to feasibly use an external keyboard while on the train/plane or in many other situ

• jacobolus 10y ago
  Laptops suck on modern no-legroom planes. Total ergonomic nightmare. An external keyboard on your lap hooked up to a smartphone or something is a much nicer way to handle any significant amount of typing. I think a stand + split external keyboard at appropriate tent and tilt angles could be designed to clip to a laptop where the laptop is opened to a 135° angle and propped up at the back. Maybe more trouble than it’s worth though. Would take a lot of design effort, and would be a niche product to be sure. Overall I think you just need to accept some level of compromise when typing on a plane or train. If the new Apple laptop keyboards bother you that much, get something else I guess.. Among people who have tried them opinions overall seem split. I know several people who much prefer the new Macbook Pro keyboards to the old ones. And several others who prefer the old ones. In my opinion (as a very snobby keyboard connoisseur) both are comparable – acceptable but uninspiring; same goes for all laptop keyboards since about 1992, most of which are even crappier than anything Apple has put out.