On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 22:27 -0500, [email protected] wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:25:57PM -0500, Nick Nobody wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 08:56 -0500, [email protected] wrote: > > > It seems a lot of these laptops come with 92% keyboards. Now I have > > > big hands, and my only experiences with 92% keyboards have not been > > > encouraging. But I never sat down and tried one for more than a > > > minute or so before saying "Ugh". > > > > > > I simply don't know if I could get used to one -- finding out would > > > require me to use one for at least a few hours. > > > > > > Does anyone have a machine that they could lend me for a day or so with > > > such a keyboard? > > > > > > It could be as little as a USB keyboard I could plug into my regular > > > desktop. It could be an old ten-year-old laptop with dead > > > batteries -- as long as I can get plain ASCII text files in and > > > out of it and spend the day text-editing and writing. > > > > > > -- hendrik > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > How can you tell if you've got a 92% keyboard? Are specific key > > dimensions available? > > > > I've got a really old toshiba portege 3110ct which had a small keyboard, > > but I'm not sure if it'll match these new netbook keyboards (the keys are > > about 16x15mm). From what I remember, it wasn't that bad once you got > > used to it. > > My keyboard here is eleven inches from the left edge of the caps lock > key to the right edge of the return/enter key. My alphasmart has the > same width. I call that standard. > > By those measurements, 92% would be 10.12 inches, give or take a bit. > > -- hendrik > > _______________________________________________
I just checked, the full width is 250mm (about 10 inches). nick _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
