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I've been using a "screen" keyboard (the Lenovo Yoga Book) for ~5 years now and it's a big initial adjustment, but one you eventually stop even thinking about.

I've been using a "screen" keyboard (the Lenovo Yoga Book) for ~5 years now and it's a big initial adjustment, but one you eventually stop even thinking about. Being able to free up your keyboard space for more screen space (or, for the LYB, use alternative inputs) is actually incredibly freeing for your device and workflow, IMO. If this laptop is priced right, it'll be an instant-buy for me to replace this old boy. I might even start carrying around a small Bluetooth keyboard so I can get an even bigger screen sometimes. Being able to decide whether you want smaller, more portable devices and/or huge screens to dive into seems to be a trend with most foldables; I can't wait to see it (hopefully) become an option in laptops, too.

EugeneOZ 5y ago
Do you type a lot? Do you look at the keyboard when typing?
- drusepth 5y ago
  I'm both a coder and an author, so I'd say I'd type a LOT (I have a little under 2.5 million words written in my Grammarly total over the past few years and I wrote 50k in 30 days a few months ago for National Novel Writing Month, but I'm generally pretty much always coding and/or writing). I don't look at the keyboard. There's a few spots you can touch-anchor with on the LYB (both with fingers and e.g. wrists) so you don't really have much problem with drift, which was my main issue at the start. It's a slightly different stance than the typical only-fingertips-touch one I use on "real" keyboards and you need a little bit of the muscle memory you have on e.g. hitting multiple physical keys at once and making sure they register in the correct order, but I type roughly 120WPM on touch and ~130WPM on tactile. The convenience factor for the former makes it so much more worthwhile for on-the-go writing IMO.
  - EugeneOZ 5y ago
    Thank you for your detailed response! Now I definitely want to try it too.

EugeneOZ 5y ago

Do you type a lot? Do you look at the keyboard when typing?

drusepth 5y ago
I'm both a coder and an author, so I'd say I'd type a LOT (I have a little under 2.5 million words written in my Grammarly total over the past few years and I wrote 50k in 30 days a few months ago for National Novel Writing Month, but I'm generally pretty much always coding and/or writing). I don't look at the keyboard. There's a few spots you can touch-anchor with on the LYB (both with fingers and e.g. wrists) so you don't really have much problem with drift, which was my main issue at the start. It's a slightly different stance than the typical only-fingertips-touch one I use on "real" keyboards and you need a little bit of the muscle memory you have on e.g. hitting multiple physical keys at once and making sure they register in the correct order, but I type roughly 120WPM on touch and ~130WPM on tactile. The convenience factor for the former makes it so much more worthwhile for on-the-go writing IMO.
- EugeneOZ 5y ago
  Thank you for your detailed response! Now I definitely want to try it too.