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The next '$100 laptop' may be the future design for all
- shawndrost 18y agoIt's pretty, and kudos to someone for doing something unusual with laptops. However, typing without tactile feedback sounds miserable, and it looks like $100 is getting farther away, not closer.
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- jcl 18y agoAlthough lack of tactile feedback doesn't seem to have hurt the iPhone any...
- robg 18y agoI remember seeing something that tactile feedback can be simulated in the mind's eye. If I remember correctly it was some combination of 3d buttons, an audible click, and a very subtle delay/rebound. Any one know who did that work?
- pchristensen 18y agoNokia did that on one of their new phones (unreleased?). Apparently they nailed it and it feels just like typing on keys.
- hugh 18y agoSure, but ten-finger 50+wpm typing is a very different proposition to one-finger hunt-and-peck on a tiny screen.
- hernan7 18y agoI guess you could get a transparent keyboard-shaped overlay for when you need tactile feedback.
- swombat 18y agoWho needs tactile feedback? Business users and programmers, mostly. I own a macbook pro. Its built-in keyboard is excellent. Yet I very rarely use it, because no matter how well designed, it can't beat an external keyboard for ergonomics. Just because the laptop keyboard is a touch-screen doesn't mean you can't use a Bluetooth keyboard with it.
- robg 18y agoA perfect example where a company could use revolutionary design to sell highly profitable products AND support non-profit initiatives simultaneously. This 2.0 version would demand a Mac-like premium - and likely enough to help subsidize or give away the cheaper alternative. They could have sold a product line (even as I understand the costs of marketing and distribution) and kept the goals of the original product intact. Instead, they compromised the initial vision to increase the raw number of partnerships.
- me2i81 18y agoLooks like a big Nintendo DS.