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A lot of laptops need to reserve the space to the side of the keyboards, for their ports - in fact, whenever you see a laptop where the keyboard is kissing the
by Qwertious 4y ago
A lot of laptops need to reserve the space to the side of the keyboards, for their ports - in fact, whenever you see a laptop where the keyboard is kissing the edge of the laptop, it usually has a dire shortage of ports (typically 1 USB port, a charger, a headphone jack, and nothing else).
This makes sense if you realize that it's a choice between keyboard girth and thin-ness; you can either have the keyboard on top of the ports, or you can squish the keyboard to the side and be potentially ~4mm thinner. Or just don't have ports.
I'm starting to think that the future of laptop keyboards is the old thinkpad butterfly design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRVJCtREW38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRVJCtREW38
- eviks 4y agoNot really, the bigger laptops don't need to preserve more space for the ports, right? Yet they all expand the space sideways instead of adding space between the keyboard halves I mean, even with the same width, moving backspace between halves has no impact on the ports, where is that useful innovation for the few of us that make typos? Or replacing the spacebar with a few thumb keys - that is also port-effect-free