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On 11/20/14 15:20, Daniel Frey wrote: |
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> On 11/20/2014 11:16 AM, thegeezer wrote: |
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>> yeah at first it's odd, but then when you start getting used to |
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>> navigating without removing hands from keyboard it does become almost a |
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>> prerequisite. |
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>> does anyone know if you can get usb keyboards that have the trackpoint |
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>> style mini-joystick in the middle of them ? |
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The trackball is still one of my favorite features on laptops of all |
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time. It's a shame they do not license that trackball to other manufactures. |
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>> the other big thing with the thinkpads used to be the keyboards. the |
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>> x201 had a great almost totally full size keyboard, but they are |
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>> increasingly becoming a thing of a bygone era with apple style |
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>> calculator buttons that have nothing like the tactile response they used |
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>> to have. as lenovo are moving away from these big-key style keyboards, |
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>> does anyone have any recommendations of a laptop supplier that is |
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>> starting to use them ? |
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> I've been looking around too and it seems like everyone's doing the |
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> chicklet keyboards. I haven't looked that hard, but almost every laptop |
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> I've found seems to have the goofy keyboards. |
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I not sure how to "categorize" keyboards, but I purchased an Asus |
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ZenBook a year ago, and it has the nicest feel I have ever experienced |
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of any keyboard. Very thing and reliable. And Asus has a direct warranty |
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support for one year, without any additional costs. It is |
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simple a very wonderful lappy. ymmv. |
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Also, take a look at aarch64 (arm) based tablets with keyboards as |
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removable half of the device. Very cool, but make sure you get the |
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ports you want/need. This segment of the market has new entries everyday |
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so you'll have to google for a good and reliable model. |
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Sven & company should be adding that new 64 bit arm (amd and others) |
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architecture support to the gentoo (handbook) docs soon. LXQT has |
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requested arm flags in BGO, so all that new arm_stuffage should be |
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permeating the gentoo very soon. |
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Lastly, "gentroid" is a new player in this space, depending on how |
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divergent you are willing to go. [1] |
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hth, |
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James |
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[1] https://code.google.com/p/gentroid/ |
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[2] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/embedded/287663 |
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