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Re: A Touchpad Embedded Keyboard

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Post by elyobo »

pintxo wrote: post #89
elyobo wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Figuring out how to disable that damn thing was my top priority when I had a thinkpad. Maybe I should have stuck with it, but it was just an annoying thing that was impossible to control and easily knocked to where I didn't want it to be (a problem when input focus is mouse based rather than foreground app based). So this looks interesting to me... but possibly suffers from the same problem of inadvertent activation.

It is the other way around for me, I always disable the track pad, as I else will randomly move the cursor while typing, which is really annoying.

Yeah, I have tweaked the settings on them before; they generally have a sort of palm detection that prevents them from misfiring which works pretty well for me - only in one case have I ever had to adjust a laptop for that.

Re: A Touchpad Embedded Keyboard

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Post by kkarakk »

so when the switches fail you gotta plug in a mouse anyways. switches fail on an average of one every 5 years in my experience(shorter if you're using one of the chinese clones like kailh instead of cherry since they don't have as good QC in my experience)

These guys haven't mentioned switches so i guess they're using cheaper variants to cut down costs. something to be aware of...

Re: A Touchpad Embedded Keyboard

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Post by kkarakk »

lorenzhs wrote: post #85
innocentoldguy wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you remove the rubber nub, you still have a little plastic joystick poking out of the center of your keyboard. Also, the trackpads on Thinkpads are pretty worthless when compared to offerings by other manufacturers.

They certainly used to be pretty worthless, but some two years ago Lenovo seems to have realised that. Being firmly on team trackpoint, I don’t use it personally, but my X1 Carbon (2017) has a nice feeling large trackpad that I’ve heard many good things about.

i think it was actually microsoft that started pushing OEMs towards better touchpads with it's surface touchpad certification program. any laptop with those is pretty comparable to a mac touchpad...

Re: A Touchpad Embedded Keyboard

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Post by k_ »

PerfectElement wrote: post #55
DominoTree wrote: post #6

BlackBerry has been doing this with the keyboards on their phones for some time now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn6DRcUFj8Y

Came here to say the same thing. I used the KeyOne and now the Key2 and I can't imagine going back to software keyboards.

Did you notice any improvement on this in the Key2?

I have the KeyOne and while I love the feature and it works somewhere between OK and excellent, I have trouble correctly using the typing-oriented gestures (auto complete, delete word). I end up avoiding them because I just can't make them work with near 100% accuracy (accuracy being one of the main points of a physical keyboard to me).

Re: A Touchpad Embedded Keyboard

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Post by sethish »

pintxo wrote: post #42

I don't get it. The "keep your fingers on the keyboard and use the mouse" thing has been solved ages ago with the trackpoint [1]. It's the number one reason for me not to buy a MacBook. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick

I got a mechanical keyboard without a trackpoint after requiring one for many years. I was worried about using a trackpad or mouse, but I tried out mousekeys and am very happy with the result.

Re: A Touchpad Embedded Keyboard

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Post by JustSomeNobody »

dogma1138 wrote: post #28
nicoburns wrote: post #17

Looks this would be perfect as a "sofa keyboard" for controlling a home media center or similar. I guess that the main difficulty would be not pressing the keys while using it as a touchpad, but I imagine it would be possible to get used to that.

Not sure how it’s any better than the Logitech K400 or the Microsoft All in One keyboard, especially since those don’t need any special software support so can work with your Android TV, Apple TV, HTPC and essentially any other device that supports USB HID, and those cost only like $20-30 I don’t see this thing being sold for less than $150-200.

> Not sure how it’s any better...

Because better is subjective.

Re: A Touchpad Embedded Keyboard

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Post by SirHound »

pintxo wrote: post #42

I don't get it. The "keep your fingers on the keyboard and use the mouse" thing has been solved ages ago with the trackpoint [1]. It's the number one reason for me not to buy a MacBook. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick

Gestures?

Re: A Touchpad Embedded Keyboard

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Post by kbumsik »

equalunique wrote: post #80
kbumsik wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because it's a Korean company. It's far less common to use email to contact a customer in Korea. As you can see email is not even a required field in the sign-up page. The customers prefer to receive notifications via SMS (or Kakaotalk nowadays) then email. Actually email is almost meaningless in Korea for contacting method to consumers. If the company send official release news to sing-up customers on email only, th…

Thanks for this interesting insight into Korean culture & customs.

No problem :) Because of these cultures Koreans often have worst email habits for the western standards. Most of them don't know what CC and BCC are.

The noticeable one is they often have worst email names such as cute_girl90@company.com and they use it in business. So don't suprise if you get a wired email name from Koreans.

Re: A Touchpad Embedded Keyboard

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Post by SomeHacker44 »

I would probably try this if the price point is reasonable.

Years ago I had a machine aluminum frame that held a wireless mac desktop keyboard and associated mouse together as a single unit and allowed typing and touchpading on the desktop just like a laptop. I found this to be much better than a touchpad to either side of the keyboard and especially much better than a touchpad to the right of a 104-key sized keyboard. Would love to have that again.

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