[Eli Gundry (Unverified) Posted Jan 8th 2009 12:37AM]

I am seriously not a Mac fanboy, but doesn't the keyboard look like a Macbooks? Not that its a good thing or bad thing, but I'm just curious as to whether or not anyone else had this impression.

[Shyam D (Unverified) Posted Jan 8th 2009 1:01AM]

You mean the chicklet keyboard that Sony did first? Yah, it does. Several manufacturers have been moving to this style. It looks better but it sucks more if you're a touch typer.

[Zunavio (Unverified) Posted Jan 8th 2009 2:31AM]

No, SONY stole that design from
this - http://salestores.com/stores/images/images_747/250015VBA20M2.jpg

[Raul7 Posted Jan 8th 2009 4:48AM]

I definitely have to disagree with you Shyam D. I have got a MacBook for about a year now, and I could touch type on it much faster and easier than on my 4 laptops I had before with normal keyboards as well as desktop keyboards. The spacing feels just much more natural, and it's harder to click the wrong key. Whenever I use a normal keyboard now, it feels really weird and feels kind of hard to type on it..

[Beau Posted Jan 8th 2009 8:45PM]

@ Shyam,

I'm typing this on my Apple Aluminum keyboard at work connected to an XP box. I'm a 90+ WPM typer (software engineer programming for over 25 years) and I've never typed faster. FWIW