Ugliest, most pointless, most confusing thing I've ever seen. How can you even type on that? Why is the keyboard divided? Imagine typing with every key directly below the next. There's a reason the keys are spaced the way they are, and even if there wasn't, it's what we're used to.
I actually type on a similar keyboard: http://www.typematrix.com/ which I bought after I started feeling pain in my wrists while typing. The change was rather successful, though took a week getting used to. The only reason the keys are staggered is because of typewriters, which used little 'hammers' to hit the page, and had to be staggered to not overlap... It is actually less tiring to not to have to unnaturally twist your hands counter-clockwise to be able to type "y" and "b", and would prevent quite a bit of carpel tunnel... Now just give me an eee 1000 with a keyboard like that and I'll be happy... :-)
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Ugliest, most pointless, most confusing thing I've ever seen.
How can you even type on that? Why is the keyboard divided? Imagine typing with every key directly below the next. There's a reason the keys are spaced the way they are, and even if there wasn't, it's what we're used to.
I actually type on a similar keyboard: http://www.typematrix.com/
which I bought after I started feeling pain in my wrists while typing. The change was rather successful, though took a week getting used to.
The only reason the keys are staggered is because of typewriters, which used little 'hammers' to hit the page, and had to be staggered to not overlap... It is actually less tiring to not to have to unnaturally twist your hands counter-clockwise to be able to type "y" and "b", and would prevent quite a bit of carpel tunnel...
Now just give me an eee 1000 with a keyboard like that and I'll be happy... :-)