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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: joneslee85 on Wed, 16 December 2009, 03:24:38
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http://litl.com/essays/hardware.htm
Check out that link, here is how the keyboard looks:
(http://litl.com/resize_image?path=/dotAsset/372940.jpg&w=630)
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I'm probably going to be one of the only ones to say this, but I think it looks ghastly.
The layout is nice, and I like the computer that it's attached to. More companies should design notebooks like that, where you can flip it into an a-frame.
But the keyboard just looks like a toy, I don't like the rounded everything... Looks like fischer price made the keyboard
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The PC is a cool concept, but as for the keyboard... Yuck! I especially hate the arrow keys. I have those style of arrow keys on my ASUS EeePC. I would much rather have all my arrow keys the same tiny size rather than to have the left and right buttons full sized. It always throws me off when I need to use the up or down key. I end up trying to use it like an inverted T arrow set.
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The keyboard seems quite appropriate for that kind of device.
I wonder if they have an alternative way of locking caps, or if it's simply not needed for the tasks it can do. (Mainly web browsing.) Anyhow, good job getting rid of the capslock key.
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The keyboard seems quite appropriate for that kind of device.
I wonder if they have an alternative way of locking caps, or if it's simply not needed for the tasks it can do. (Mainly web browsing.) Anyhow, good job getting rid of the capslock key.
And bad job putting the escape key instead.
I really see no use for caps lock other than teenagers yelling at forums. But I put my control key in it's place. The escape key in that place gives a high tendency to type it for mistake.
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And bad job putting the escape key instead. The escape key in that place gives a high tendency to type it for mistake.
Knowing nothing about their OS other than the little (no pun intended) they say on their website, maybe escape gets a lot more use than it does elsewhere. In a web-only environment, the only things about this keyboard that would bother me are the awful arrow keys and the low contrast between key and label. I'd be looking down to find several of the keys for a while, and their dim labels would be little help.