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Your dream keyboard?
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Your dream keyboard?
If you were to design your dream keyboard, what would it be like? What switches would you use? What layout would you use? This link can make keyboard layouts if your layout isn't standard.
For me, Alps Blue or Buckling Spring, and this layout.
And for mobile work, the Thinkpad keyboard reigns supreme, because this laptop can't be considered mobile when its bigger and heavier than a W700ds.
For me, Alps Blue or Buckling Spring, and this layout.
And for mobile work, the Thinkpad keyboard reigns supreme, because this laptop can't be considered mobile when its bigger and heavier than a W700ds.
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The efficiency of two screens equally sized with equal numbers if pixels are equal. The time spent by a 4:3 user complaining about 16:9 is proportional to the inefficiency working with a 16:9 display, therefore the amount of useful work extracted is equal.
The efficiency of two screens equally sized with equal numbers if pixels are equal. The time spent by a 4:3 user complaining about 16:9 is proportional to the inefficiency working with a 16:9 display, therefore the amount of useful work extracted is equal.
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Re: Your dream keyboard?
Around the turn of the century, my late father gave me his old Northgate Omnikey Ultra which I believe used Alps Blue key switches. I'm split between that or the keyboard on the Amstrad PPC640 as the most comfortable keyboard I've ever used.
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Re: Your dream keyboard?
Your dream layout does not have a backslash key?
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Re: Your dream keyboard?
Just might as well show you this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7H5uZTKcfMAlphaKilo470 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2017 11:43 pmAround the turn of the century, my late father gave me his old Northgate Omnikey Ultra which I believe used Alps Blue key switches. I'm split between that or the keyboard on the Amstrad PPC640 as the most comfortable keyboard I've ever used.
Blues and whites are very similar in feel but it could have been blues. You don't know till you pop a keycap.
Thinkpad4by3's Law of the Universe.
The efficiency of two screens equally sized with equal numbers if pixels are equal. The time spent by a 4:3 user complaining about 16:9 is proportional to the inefficiency working with a 16:9 display, therefore the amount of useful work extracted is equal.
The efficiency of two screens equally sized with equal numbers if pixels are equal. The time spent by a 4:3 user complaining about 16:9 is proportional to the inefficiency working with a 16:9 display, therefore the amount of useful work extracted is equal.
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Re: Your dream keyboard?
Don't use it, dont need it. Maybe I might change that for the one time I need cmd.exe but who knows?dr_st wrote:Your dream layout does not have a backslash key?
Thinkpad4by3's Law of the Universe.
The efficiency of two screens equally sized with equal numbers if pixels are equal. The time spent by a 4:3 user complaining about 16:9 is proportional to the inefficiency working with a 16:9 display, therefore the amount of useful work extracted is equal.
The efficiency of two screens equally sized with equal numbers if pixels are equal. The time spent by a 4:3 user complaining about 16:9 is proportional to the inefficiency working with a 16:9 display, therefore the amount of useful work extracted is equal.
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Re: Your dream keyboard?
Worse than that, it's also missing a Trackpoint and its buttons!
(not to mention a €, which may be needed sooner, rather than later, the way The Donald is going...)
(not to mention a €, which may be needed sooner, rather than later, the way The Donald is going...)
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Re: Your dream keyboard?
Oh, this would be a desktop keyboard. For me, trackball comes before trackpoint. Hey, that was the original Trackpoint for the IBM L40SX . Also, dont need a euro key, but can be added in a Fn Layer.RealBlackStuff wrote:Worse than that, it's also missing a Trackpoint and its buttons!
(not to mention a €, which may be needed sooner, rather than later, the way The Donald is going...)
Thinkpad4by3's Law of the Universe.
The efficiency of two screens equally sized with equal numbers if pixels are equal. The time spent by a 4:3 user complaining about 16:9 is proportional to the inefficiency working with a 16:9 display, therefore the amount of useful work extracted is equal.
The efficiency of two screens equally sized with equal numbers if pixels are equal. The time spent by a 4:3 user complaining about 16:9 is proportional to the inefficiency working with a 16:9 display, therefore the amount of useful work extracted is equal.
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Re: Your dream keyboard?
Haha.
Thinkpad4by3's Law of the Universe.
The efficiency of two screens equally sized with equal numbers if pixels are equal. The time spent by a 4:3 user complaining about 16:9 is proportional to the inefficiency working with a 16:9 display, therefore the amount of useful work extracted is equal.
The efficiency of two screens equally sized with equal numbers if pixels are equal. The time spent by a 4:3 user complaining about 16:9 is proportional to the inefficiency working with a 16:9 display, therefore the amount of useful work extracted is equal.
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