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Wayland - Beyond X (The H)

Posted Feb 16, 2012 20:31 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: Wayland - Beyond X (The H) by khim
Parent article: Wayland - Beyond X (The H)

you can get full size keyboards with a trackpoint (or with a touchpad below the spacebar, almost as good)

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Wayland - Beyond X (The H)

Posted Feb 16, 2012 20:46 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] (3 responses)

you can get full size keyboards with a trackpoint

There are very few of them and they are no better then ThinkPad's built-in one, so what's the point?

or with a touchpad below the spacebar, almost as good

Not even close. Either you need to use thumb to move mouse pointer (way less precise then when you use index finger) or you need to move hands (and if I'll do that then I'll prefer traditional mouse over touchpad becase, again, it's more precise).

Wayland - Beyond X (The H)

Posted Feb 16, 2012 21:23 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (2 responses)

> There are very few of them and they are no better then ThinkPad's built-in one, so what's the point?

the rest of the keyboard is much better

Wayland - Beyond X (The H)

Posted Feb 16, 2012 21:53 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] (1 responses)

the rest of the keyboard is much better

How come? Most of the look like this - basically laptop keyboard without a laptop. Not exactly sure how separation of keyboard from laptop can suddenly make it "much better".

Wayland - Beyond X (The H)

Posted Feb 16, 2012 22:45 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

two things.

1. having it be separate lets you position it better.

2. I was actually assuming that you would get a 'real' keyboard. In the past I've seen full-size M series type 'clicky' keyboards that have the erasermouse pointer in them.

by the way, I somewhat question if a thumb on a trackpad is really that much less accurate than the erasermouse joysticks, but I guess that's a personal preference :-)