To Wrist-Rest or Not to Wrist-Rest

[vic-k]

@Bluesman

Reminds me of this:
youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA

If they put this out for real, I’m willing to bet there would still be people lining up for it

Yeah, but, it was launched on April 1st, wannit?

[nom]

@Bluesman

The travel is too short, the click-moment is too soft, and the keys are flat (the recesses help our fingers orient, but I guess they don’t look pretty enough to keep them). No thanks. Lenovo is miles ahead over everything else with their laptop keyboards at the moment. Try one out and you’ll see, I guarantee it.

There’s that difference of opinion again. None of the “issues” you described are problems for me. Travel is just right, click movement is fine and I don’t need recesses to “orient” my fingers - that’s what the little ridges on the home keys (“f” and “j”) are for.

And I have tried Lenovo and was unimpressed at the time, but maybe they’re better now. It’s a moot point, however. I have a lot of software and hardware invested my Apple eco-system; it works, I like it, I know the operating system very well and have it tweaked to my liking, and it means I don’t have to use Windows or learn Linux. In short, I’m happy and have no intention of switching because someone else doesn’t like my choice of keyboard.

And yes, I do use Windows as well. After over 20 years (I first started using Windows 2 on MS-DOS), I still don’t like it. The only version I haven’t tried is Win8, but I haven’t read a good review yet.

@Bluesman

Logitech makes an external laptop-style keyboard that types properly, and has a backlight. Check it out:
logitech.com/en-us/product/i … board-k740

Wouldn’t work for me. If you read my post above, I need a small keyboard so I can use a mouse beside it on my keyboard tray. Besides, that monster isn’t even bluetooth. This Logitech keyboard comes closer, but other than the backlit keys, I can’t see any benefit over the keyboard I already have. That, and it uses a Windows layout, so all my muscle memory would be wasted. Creating new muscle memories doesn’t make sense; as I said earlier, my current finger memory works on both my laptop and my external keyboard. Why would I change, especially since my keyboards already “type properly” for me? If I really wanted to “type properly”, I’d return to using the 1930’s manual typewriter I first learned to type on. The keys on that thing had travel and real click!

I have at least three, maybe four, other keyboards in storage and so I choose to use the one I find best for me. Clearly your preferences are different. That’s good. Means we’re different people. This, in turn, means we’ll write differently and so our writing will please different audiences. I hope you enjoy your excellent keyboards and allow me to enjoy my excellent keyboards and that we both find excellent audiences for the words we type on those keyboards.

All the best,
nom

[Juddbert]

I’m with Nom. Not physically, you understand, though that’s nothing personal, simply a matter of geographic location. However, vis à vis Apple MacBook Pro keyboards, we’re closer than a wombat’s gonads. 'Nuff said!

[vic-k]

@Juddbert

closer than a wombat’s gonads. 'Nuff said!

LANGUAGE!!.. LANGUAGE!! F’ feck sake, you don’t now who’s reading this stuff! Jaysen could be reading it.
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[size=85]“closer than a wombat’s gonads”. Ill have t’ remember that one![/size]