On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 8:14 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 06:17:02PM -0500, Peter Silva wrote: > > I feel your pain, > > Pain? >
the pain of large fingers on a small keyboard... the pain of taking four times as long to type something, because they keys aren't quite where they ought to be. After five to ten minutes, my fingers adjusted, but for things like backspace it was a pain forever. > > > I bought an Asus 701, and the keyboard is annoying for > > touch typists, especially if you use another kb regularly. > > Is that one of the systems with the very small keyboards? > yes. it's the eee pc. standard netbook of the first generation. The latest generations are 10" (display) and have bigger kb's, as well as higher resolution displays. > > > I got used to > > it, but the screen real-estate, I never got used to. > > I'm extrmrly near-sighted. I use a Nokis N800 holding it about 15 cm > from my nose. Lovely wide screen at that distance! But no keyboard at > all. > a 701 might be just the thing. I happen to have one lying around, with ubuntu netbook remix on it. (If this one goes away, it gives me an excuse to buy one of the new ones ;-) > > > > > Acer aspire 1, and Asus 1000 series are 92% size keyboards. > > They are not tiny like the EEE 700 & 900 series... > > These are, then about 11 inches wide? > might want to go to microbytes, they usually have one you can touch... > > > > > also, if you can wait a few weeks, Dell Mini 10 is coming (already shown > at > > trade shows, due RSN.) > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 5:10 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I find myself imagining myself with a Dell Inspiron Mini 12 > > > ( > > > > http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-inspiron-12?c=ca&cs=cadhs1&l=en&s=dhs > > > ) > > > -- the Ubuntu versin, of course. > > > > > > The attractions on this device are > > > 1. It runs Linux > > > 2. It has a keyboard with standard key spacing. ( don't need a > > > number pad) > > > 3. It's lightweight (under 3 pounds) > > > 4. It isn't huge. In fact, it's about as small as it can be and > > > stull have a standard size keyboard. > > > > > > Does anyone have any experience with this device? Or with other Dell > > > Linux laptops? > > > > > > In particular, is it likely to run with *any* LInux distro, or does the > > > hardware require proprietary Ubuntu drivers? > > > > > > -- hendrik > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > mlug mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mlug mailing list > > [email protected] > > > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >
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