Comments on: Keyboard Evolution

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:08:03 +0000

If you’re looking for keyboard evolution then John Lewis have the ideal, quirky Christmas gift – a roll-up keyboard! Just stick the rubberised keyboard in your coat pocket and you’ll never have to worry about carrying a cumbersome old plastic model again. Sadly it doesn’t come with a roll-up laptop! Maybe next year.

By: Itzy Sabo

Itzy Sabo — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:45:55 +0000

Actually, I looked for a keyboard with a laptop-sized footprint, and ended up settling for the smallest one I cold find. I like the number pad, but would easily give it up for a smaller keyboard. Because this wasn’t a “strategic” purchase for me, I did not invest any time in surveying the market for the ideal keyboard — just went to Office Depot and picked one up.

By: Dave F.

Dave F. — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 22:15:05 +0000

The space bar is the size it is because touch-typists hit it with the side of the thumb, harder to do accurately if the key were only the size of the shift or the enter key.

Itzy, in your research did you consider or try a keyboard that doesn’t have a numeric pad and other keys taking up a lot of real estate to the right of the normal typing keys? I’d like a wireless keyboard with a footprint more like a laptop’s so that there wouldn’t be so much distance between the enter key and the mouse.

By: alwayswritng

alwayswritng — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:48:57 +0000

i think that the deleate keys and enter keys should be smaller, as well as the space key. the space key has no right to be as large as it is.