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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: theOwlol on Sat, 25 February 2012, 11:15:10

Title: Apple, making them even thinner.
Post by: theOwlol on Sat, 25 February 2012, 11:15:10

This might be old news, but I found it kinda interesting.   Link (http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/23/apple_wants_to_reinvent_keyboards_making_them_even_thinner.html)

Have anyone made any thoughts about this yet?

Title: Apple, making them even thinner.
Post by: Jamesbeat on Sat, 25 February 2012, 16:26:14

I'm no touch typist, but I can't imagine 0.2mm key travel being very comfortable to type on.

The glass and polished meteorite ideas are intriguing though...

Title: Apple, making them even thinner.
Post by: shaippen on Sat, 25 February 2012, 17:20:49

cherry mx polished meteorite key group buy inc?

Title: Apple, making them even thinner.
Post by: Jamesbeat on Sat, 25 February 2012, 17:45:05

I imagine that, if my encyclopedic knowledge of meteorites (gained from watching Meteorite Men on the History Channel) is correct, polished meteorite as a keyboard material would be pretty expensive...

Title: Apple, making them even thinner.
Post by: sordna on Sun, 26 February 2012, 02:06:18

It's pathetic, "reinventing the keyboard" while keeping the HORRIFIC mindless appalling counter-productive zig-zag staggering, as if there's still typewriter pushrods to accommodate.