On 1/18/2011 5:03 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: >> No doubt this has been primarily driven by aesthetics (and I guess they >> assume most of their buyers are too young to remember the junky >> keyboards that looked like this in the 80's), but manufacturers claim >> that the design makes typing less error prone. As you would expect, this >> claim has been debated, and the issue gets muddied due to Apple's >> involvement.
I don't like the chiclet keys on my latest HP as much as I liked the more conventional keyboard, but more because of the ultra-low travel. I also don't really like the flatter keytops. The separation is "meh"; makes little difference either way so far as I can tell. Like other recent HPs it has the reversed roles for the F keys. If I used software that used the F keys heavily (like Ami Pro back in the day, or WordPerfect in the even farther back day) I'd switch it back; the BIOS setting is available. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
