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I've made a point of staying away from more radically different layouts precisely because I live in a reality where use of laptop keyboards is frequent and drag
by cosmic_cheese 1y ago
I've made a point of staying away from more radically different layouts precisely because I live in a reality where use of laptop keyboards is frequent and dragging an external board around isn't really practical.
It would be nice if laptop manufacturers standardized on a modular keyboard deck design, making it viable to do small-batch group buys of replacement decks with relatively esoteric layouts. This wouldn't cover every possible layout due to size constraints but it'd be a marked improvement.
- Nicholas_C 1y agoMy work laptop and personal laptop are the same model for this reason. Switching between two different keyboard layouts is very frustrating.
- eikenberry 1y agoI find laptop keyboards to be so poor in general that catering to them seems like a lost cause (in my case). I would prefer a laptop w/o a keyboard (basically a beefy tablet) where I would bring my own keyboard. Ideally I'd like it to be even more modular than that and I might even look into it one day using frame.work components and a 3d printer.
- cosmic_cheese 1y agoThe issue with the PC tablet form factor, in my opinion, is that it's extremely limiting so long as you're trying to keep the device reasonably light and portable. It's also awkward at sizes larger than ~13". If I think about a tabletified form of a 16" M4 Max MBP for example, it'd be so clunky (including kickstand an all that) that I'd question the usefulness of it being a tablet. A 13" MacPad Air would probably be the upper limit.