Originally Posted by
Visconti
In my view, that's like the perfect travel laptop--it's light, thin, absolutely stunning screen, and very easily portable.
However, as they say, old habits die hard and though I came of age as a Mac person, my long ago Corp days introduced me to the IBM, now Lenovo, Thinkpads and I've found their keyboard to be the best of any laptop I've ever used. When I anticipate needing to type a bunch, which happens from time to time, I picked up an X Series as a compromise between the keyboard I prefer and light weight form factor.
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Now, if Apple could produce the current Air with an Thinkpad keyboard, it'd be my perfect laptop.
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People fundamentally underestimate the importance of a good, responsive and well laid out keyboard - laptop or desktop. Given how much time one spends cognitively outputting ideas and responses into multiple applications as well as FT for us, having a good, if not great keyboard is essential.
Having a crappy user interface - which is what I'd characterize as any modalities that use touchscreens and/or audio - are always prone to errors and requires, in my mind, heroics to change and modify text inputs is a royal pain in the ....
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Getting back to the ThinkPad keyboard, having good/great tactile feel and responsiveness (and either audible and/or tactile feedback) allows one to keep typing and know that one's thoughts are actually being captured. Marshmallow keys on some/many Dell (and other) keyboards annoys me especially - when I have to actually look down to see if I'm depressing a key or three since no feel or feedback is provided.
David