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I don't understand the point of this article. It could have benefited from some editing by someone who knew more about the subject. On the first page, the auth
by mscarborough 15y ago
I don't understand the point of this article. It could have benefited from some editing by someone who knew more about the subject.
On the first page, the author complains about having to type 'our' instead of 'or' for some British spellings, key mapping requirements, inclusion of the TouchPad but exclusion of a TrackPoint (keyboard nipple), Macbooks not having dedicated home/end/page up/down keys (which is just function + each arrow key, and should not really require four extra dedicated buttons), Bootcamp not being good enough to run multiple versions of Windows, etc...
I can't speak to the # symbol being on a different key, but the author complains about not having the return key taking 3 spots instead of two. And framing that as some kind of US-centric thing!
Plenty of keyboards designed for the US use a giant return key, and others do not. It's a design and user choice issue which optimizes for space, not some conscious US-centric, ignoring-international-design-standards type of decision.
- pat2man 15y agoI was following along until he said he loved the TrackPoint. No one who uses one of those can be taken seriously.
- jseliger 15y agoWhy? I like them: they're much more precise, in my experience, than trackpads. And I say this as someone with MacBook who, if he could get one with a nipple mouse, would.