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> My theory is that most folks these days learned to type on membrane keyboards where you have to bottom out the keys (often with quite a lot of force, if the
by dkarl 6y ago
> My theory is that most folks these days learned to type on membrane keyboards where you have to bottom out the keys (often with quite a lot of force, if the keyboard is old)
I hate this. It's uncomfortable. If you aren't old enough to have used a good laptop before laptops could be thinner than two inches, you can think of modern laptop keyboards as the 21st century equivalent of a girdle. You give up a certain amount of comfort, but hey, at least you look sexy.
I guess we won't have comfortable laptop keyboards again until the electronics and battery are small enough to fit entirely under the palm rests and trackpad.
- cmiller1 6y ago> If you aren't old enough to have used a good laptop before laptops could be thinner than two inches, you can think of modern laptop keyboards as the 21st century equivalent of a girdle I miss old laptop input devices, wish someone still made a laptop with a built in trackball too!
- dkarl 6y agoI never got to try a trackball. I remember that touchpads back in the day were garbage compared to touchpads now, though. I remember the Thinkpad nub was better than any touchpad I ever had until I got my first Macbook Pro. The Apple touchpads were so amazing I assumed they would eventually figure out keyboards, too. Still waiting ten years later.
- ghostpepper 6y agoIt's not too late! Thinkpads still come with a nub.
- toast0 6y agoThere are plenty of trackballs available to plugin, just not anything mainstream in a laptop. I personally would love a return to keyboards at the front edge of the laptop, with a side mounted trackball; but I doubt I'll see that.
- cmiller1 6y agoOh baby https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Macintosh_Portable-IMG_7541.jpg/2560px-Macintosh_Portable-IMG_7541.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Ma...
- toast0 6y agoThat's pretty awesome. Although I was thinking of something more like the Microsoft Ballpoint Mouse https://www.microsoft.com/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=224 https://www.microsoft.com/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=22...
- admax88q 6y agohttps://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform
- war1025 6y ago> the 21st century equivalent of a girdle. You give up a certain amount of comfort, but hey, at least you look sexy. My wife does a lot of sewing and garment making. She has convinced me that a properly designed and fitted girdle is actually a net-benefit for people. The trouble is proper fit is hard at a mass scale, which is why women transitioned to bras, which also have notorious fit issues, but are at least manageable when mass produced.
- mycall 6y agoI've ordered an opti-mechanical new laptop to hopefully rediscover comfort in typing. Wish me luck)