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British:
Heh.

Can't wait to see what TrustedReviews has to say about this one (if they ever do such a review), out of pure curiosity :smile:

Bruce:
Good spot British.

It's quite a thing.
We're still finding more things to do with it after three days.
We've got some people with specialist applications who will pay the money if it does the job.
I find out next week :ohwell:

muchadoaboutnothing:
The word on the street is that it's not comfortable to type on but the display software does work pretty well.

Certainly the specialty applications will use it.

I saw some reviewers (on various sites; CNET was one of them) complaining that the screens were failing after a year, and they're ~$20 each.

itlnstln:
MLs aren't horrible switches, but I wouldn't want to type on them all the time.

muchadoaboutnothing:

--- Quote from: itlnstln;199951 ---MLs aren't horrible switches, but I wouldn't want to type on them all the time.
--- End quote ---


Engadget said the force required to depress keys was high and that the force increased with key size:

--- Quote from: Engadget ---Okay, why does typing on the Optimus suck, you ask? Well, although the keyboard uses mechanical switches and a lot of high quality components (evident when we pulled off some keys), and there is some clicky tactility to keypresses, as a whole it just requires way too much force to depress keys. And the larger the key, the more force is required, so enter is easier than space, but harder than tab. Let's put it this way, we sit around and type all day long and this thing wore us out in about 30 seconds to a minute. Carpal sufferers, beware.
--- End quote ---


It may be the implementation rather than the ML switches themselves.

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