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> No thanks. Bad idea to replace the keyboard and have to carry a separate thing. There is a reason why the current laptop format is popular. My daily driver i
by rektide 5y ago
> No thanks. Bad idea to replace the keyboard and have to carry a separate thing. There is a reason why the current laptop format is popular.
My daily driver is a tablet style x86 computer plus a Lenovo bluetooth keyboard. I feel so bad for people on laptops. It is so so so excellent to be able to raise my display up to eye level at a coffee shop or office (with a tablet arm, or just pile of whatever), and have my bt keyboard wherever I want.
The built-in folio keyboard is fine for couple hour sessions on a sofa or what-not, if there's not a good place for mounting the arm. But the gooseneck tablet arms are quite flexible & capable, so often I can find something to mount onto & don't need the folio keyboard.
In general, I find it kind of condescending to assume we're all doing it right already, to rule out change. I don't think many people have tried other ways of working. I field ~2 questions/hour about my setup most places I go- people see it & are blown away, they have to know. It's obviously much better, far better ergonomics & freedom, to separate the screen and keyboard. The conventional laptop form factor makes one stare semi-near-by where your hands are, and that coupling either a) leaves your hands weirdly high up or b( your eyes lowered / neck craned. The typical laptop is quite the usability compromise.