Lap top Keybpoards suck

[Zak33]

OK, guys you all knowi CANT TYPE FOR TOFFEM BUT thgis is from a lap top with no deleting or back spacing, and frankly I wonder.....what on earthg possses people to use these for dailywork>
have typed this line AFTER thatone vbelowem but smehow I've hit anotherkey and moved the cursor up the page 2 ines,#

Thisbits the big one!!!!
I mena, christm the keys are all the same heightm anfd this is a nice one,

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[Zak33]

ok...slower now!I hate lappy's....more than yesterday, and I hated them a lot then!!

Why is Cntrl not bottom left? Whyis backspace not top right?Why am i crap?

[schmunk]

Get a ThinkPad - the keyboard's brill!

[Shmee150]

I so much prefer laptop keyboards to desktop ones, so much in fact that I bought the Logitech diNovo which has very laptop like keys

ShMeE

P.S. My ctrl button is bottom left, and my back-space button is top right

[Dr. X]

Ah, but the diNovo has laptop 'feeling' keys (like the ultra-x, which looks jazz) but not the confudling layout that ruins most keyboards on laptops!

Laptops also suffer as there is less spce between the keys, on a normal keyboard you can hit a key slightly off and not hit the adjacent key too

[autopilot]

I hate laptop keyboards too. But there is an art to it. I find i have to raise my hands more at an angle. But i still hate them. What i don't get is all these 'laptop style' keyboards for desktop systems come out athe the moment.

[SilentDeath]

Thres nothing wrong with laptop style keys. Blame the manufacturer if you dont like the layout.

Ive used maybe 5 full size laptop-style keyboards. I much prefer the smaller travel flatter keys + the low hight of the keyboard. Having a low height keyboard also makes it easyer to aviod RSI.


Also for normal chuncky key-style keyboards, apart from the adition of multimedia keys theres absolutley no difference between the cheap one you get for £2.50 at a computer fair and the £20+ ones you get anywhere else. They are all cheap and crappy.

[directhex]

i bought a logitech ultrax recently to replace my cherry cymotion

it's an absolute joy to type on, my typing standard and speed have already increased massively simply within the first day

[noTHINGface]

I have an IBM T40 that work gave me and I love the keyboard on that machine. Has to be said that IBM does make the best laptop keyboards and they're the exception as opposed to the rule.

[BenW]

I hate them too, hate the touch pads too

I'd probably miss the number pad as much as anything

[daverobev]

Been using Toshiba laptops for a while, got no probs at all with the keyboards on them by and large...used to have an iBook, but the keyboard wasn't great. Have used the odd Dell and IBM....they have a very different feel...but I like the short depression required. At the moment, I'm using my Tosh at work with the laptop keyboard AND trackpad only...sometimes I grab an external for the number pad, but that's all...

So...I disagree, its just what you're used to.

[mike_w]

Whenever the sun comes out, I always think about buying a laptop with a wireless network connection so that I can sit outside and enjoy the weather... and then I remember that using laptop keyboards makes me hit about five keys instead of one at a time. I just like normal desktop keyboards. I think the problem is, if you accidently tap a key on a normal keyboard, nothing happens, whereas on a laptop, that causes the key to be pressed.

Still, I don't like laptop keyboards!

[cm_uk]

yeh only good thing about lappy keyboards is that they look good. the practicality is utter sh*te... so squashed up and if they arent then the return key is the size of a shift key shame... if someone was to make one evenly laid out and spaced nicely exactly the same as a normal keyboard i would buy one. also because of college etc i use different computers day to day so there is no point in getting used to a crappy lappy squashy keyboard and then using a normal one afterwards... utterly pointless... looks not preformance IMO...

[Voodle]

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[OmarSantiago]

It could be worse. Half our staff are from our offices in Germany or Spain and every laptop I work on is even further off the scale, with symbols you take for granted like @ vanishing into the ether never mind / or \ which makes mapping drives or web addresses something to be relished

[Twigman]

I used to hate laptop keyboards....but since using them loads i love em now.
Desktop keyboards involve too much movement and effot now.
Laptop keyboards rock