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For the longest time, I haven't used a separate keyboard and mouse with the laptop because I didn't have anywhere to hook them in unless it was a USB set. I like the laptop keyboard - the action's very easy and it feels nice - and the pointer device built in is fine.
Problem: At work, they sit on a desk that is, no matter HOW I adjust my office chair, too high for me, resulting in my elbows angling up & wrists flexed to reach. Notgood.
So I have a usb adapter for keyboard and mouse now (which I've started using at home for my glidepoint and a keyboard I got for the purpose). I asked for a mouse and keyboard, at work, but we were out. So they ordered them in for me.
I asked yesterday and got them today. Basic, normal little mouse and keyboard, nothing special, but I'm happy - I now have the keyboard on my lap, where the angle is just about right - if I sit back from the desk which is fine by me.
The keyboard has a nice easy typing action, too. Extra points for that. :)
Problem: At work, they sit on a desk that is, no matter HOW I adjust my office chair, too high for me, resulting in my elbows angling up & wrists flexed to reach. Notgood.
So I have a usb adapter for keyboard and mouse now (which I've started using at home for my glidepoint and a keyboard I got for the purpose). I asked for a mouse and keyboard, at work, but we were out. So they ordered them in for me.
I asked yesterday and got them today. Basic, normal little mouse and keyboard, nothing special, but I'm happy - I now have the keyboard on my lap, where the angle is just about right - if I sit back from the desk which is fine by me.
The keyboard has a nice easy typing action, too. Extra points for that. :)
Whoo!
This is so barely related, but. Kel and I went to CompUSA a few weeks ago to get him a replacement keyboard (his died.) We were looking at all of them, and oh wow if they don't have some of the -strangest- keyboards these days. There was this one that was like, a mat. Totally rubber, all one piece, and it was a mat with all the keys on it. The 'indestructable' keyboard.
I can't imagine typing on it - I'm a click typist! If I can't hear myself type, it's like not being able to hear myself talk!
What -will- they come up with next?
Re: Whoo!
The one they had out as a display model didn't work. Someone had, somehow, managed to destroy it. He got another one. That one worked, but it was REALLY hard to type on - you had to have a solid surface under, and press pretty hard before it registered.
Color me not thrilled. ;)