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4 Mini-laptops: Which Is Best?
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Rich58h 
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Posted 17 September 2008 - 02:30 PM
I can't understand why the keyboard is a problem on all of these. Is it done intentionally to prevent them from being useful for uses that require typing. In the 90s I had a battery powered Microsoft note book. Then I got an NEC 770, which I still have and still use. Both were small but had very useable keyboards. Why can't the new minis match this 1990s technology.
(They both also were instant on. You don't know hoiw great that is until you've had it.
Rich Nicholls
(They both also were instant on. You don't know hoiw great that is until you've had it.
Rich Nicholls
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Posted 17 September 2008 - 05:20 PM
Rich, I also had good luck with a Dell Latitude laptop keyboard. I am a bad typist but that keyboard was fine and had the perfect impact to the touch. Why can't they make the same thing on the ultra-portables?
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Posted 21 September 2008 - 01:36 AM
Mini-Keyboard for Mini-Notebook as Quick as a QWERTY
Of all the mini-notebooks produced by all the manufacturers nowadays there has been a big problem: whenever they attempt to have a small screen, there is no enough space for so many keys of a keyboard to be as quick as a QWERTY. Of almost all the keyboards or touch-screens to the present, they just have the same operation method: press and then release. Thus one input requires two motions altogether. How about one motion, or to say, what if pressing onto one key to give one input and then releasing to another key to give another input?
I hereby recommend a pen like mini-keyboard, with every motion you will move from one key position to another, making the operation twice as fast as before.
This keyboard is composed of an axis, a pulling key, a pressing key, and a hand-holder.
Either the pressing key or the pulling key has 2 positions. The axis has 3 directions. Thus 223=12 key positions may be obtained.
The keyboard will be operated by two or more fingers always pinching the hand-holder, and the fingers will not be up in the air to touch nothing at all.
The hand-holder will be pressed downward or lifted upward, pulled inward or outward, and will rotate around the axis.
12 key positions may give a variation of 11*11=121 buttons, with a speed approximately the same as that of a QWERTY.
See figures @ http://pp.sohu.com/user/24146083
Of all the mini-notebooks produced by all the manufacturers nowadays there has been a big problem: whenever they attempt to have a small screen, there is no enough space for so many keys of a keyboard to be as quick as a QWERTY. Of almost all the keyboards or touch-screens to the present, they just have the same operation method: press and then release. Thus one input requires two motions altogether. How about one motion, or to say, what if pressing onto one key to give one input and then releasing to another key to give another input?
I hereby recommend a pen like mini-keyboard, with every motion you will move from one key position to another, making the operation twice as fast as before.
This keyboard is composed of an axis, a pulling key, a pressing key, and a hand-holder.
Either the pressing key or the pulling key has 2 positions. The axis has 3 directions. Thus 223=12 key positions may be obtained.
The keyboard will be operated by two or more fingers always pinching the hand-holder, and the fingers will not be up in the air to touch nothing at all.
The hand-holder will be pressed downward or lifted upward, pulled inward or outward, and will rotate around the axis.
12 key positions may give a variation of 11*11=121 buttons, with a speed approximately the same as that of a QWERTY.
See figures @ http://pp.sohu.com/user/24146083
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