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Why I love notebooks: you barely need to move your fingers and can get a boatload of shit done. Just leave your hands on the keyboard and touchpad and you can c
by apunic 13y ago
Why I love notebooks: you barely need to move your fingers and can get a boatload of shit done. Just leave your hands on the keyboard and touchpad and you can control the universum.
Thinkpads with their red pointing sticks even top this: you can lie like dead in front of your Thinkpad and have even less finger movement -- your forefinger sits on the red pointing stick and your thumb lies on the left mouse key and again you control anything + you are damn fast.
Why do people try to use touch-based devices for productivity work where classic keyboard and trackpad/pointing stick setups and respective UIs/OSes are clearly superior? If people are using Android/iOS as productivity device they need also some kind of mouse pointer on the screen, otherwise finger movement exceeds the limit.
Finally, with current notebooks I get hours of battery time, Retina screens and total silence too (e.g. Macbook Pro Retina 15"). The cost is negligible since it's my working horse.
- AYBABTME 13y agoTo be honest, the time I spent developing on my Transformer Prime, I found the touch screen to be much more efficient to use than the mouse pad.
- apunic 13y agoDepends on the quality of the mouse pad too. Macbook touch pads with all the gestures and Thinkpad pointing sticks outdo the competition by far. And Androids UI is just not optimized for mouse pointing uses. But still I'd love to hear where you are faster than on a Macbook Pro with OSX.
- AYBABTME 13y agoOh I'm much more efficient on the MBP, but not because it lacks a touchscreen. Simply because Android is not meant to do work, but to consume medias. The touchscreen is useful because it's right next to your fingers, and you don't have to think about a pointers to click on something, you just unconsciously reach for it. If you get your hands on a device with a good touchscreen and a mouse, try it. You'll find yourself going back to a regular laptop and reaching for the screen.