DIY Eee Keyboard is big, beautiful, and highly coveted
By Ross Miller 
posted Aug 2nd 2009 6:52AM
posted Aug 2nd 2009 6:52AM
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Would be much cooler in a C64 case with authentic keyboard :P
why no one try macmini fit into mac keyboard ?
that would be nice
STEVE JOBS, did you hear me! ?
why apple not fit macmini into mac keyboard ?
STEVE JOBS, DID YOU HEAR ME ?
hahahaha, they will call it
apple extreme keyboard.
I'm thinking more along the lines of "Mighty Keyboard Pro".
The iBoard! Our advanced scientists here at Apple California have developed a never seen before product. Now, you can TYPE your emails and send them to all your friends. All with just a bunch of wonderfully crafted buttons!
That's not a bad idea at all...
Like with the MacMini, I'm sure Apple will make upgrading as difficult as possible.
And it would have just one button.
They'd call it Apple IIe.
I laughed out loud at zfurie's comment.
The Kiiboard. Now with two is.
Yeah I had an apple IIc+, it even had a carrying handle.
I think "Apple IIi". Or I dunno, "Apple iII" for Beastie Boys fans?
Gross......
OK let's see your masterpiece of modern electronics.
yeah it does look pretty fugly
I'm pretty sure anyone with a basic knowledge of computer assembly can put a keyboard on top of a mainboard. Hundreds of companies already make them, they're called laptops.
laptops have screens, and batteries, silly goose
Wwhat: That was the point. How god damn hard is it to make a laptop without screen and battery?
Bet there is a market for the all-in-one laptop-without-a-screen form factor. After all, there was in the 80's.
Maybe once wireless display technology matures a bit.
It was called the Dana, had a wee little screen and is still in use in schools. They were/are especially useful for kids who don't write very well/quickly: it often allowed them to keep pace with their more pencil-facile classmates, and if they weren't fighting with the mechanics of writing, often were able to produce real interesting work you didn't know they had in 'em.
And as there's no fiddling with fonts and other layout silliness, there're no other features to serve as distraction: it's really just about the writing.
I have a Dana and used it for a couple of years as my main writing machine. It has perhaps the best keyboard I've ever used in 30 years, and is very robust. The small screen is painful but works. It runs for 20 hours on a rechargeable set of 3 x AA batteries. In theory it also runs Palm OS software but there are no apps for the Dana's widescreen. And it has SD slot expansion so a $1 512MB SD card gives me room for years, decades of writing. It works as a USB keyboard so although there is random to/fro software for Windows, the simplest way to upload text is to open an editor on a real PC, plug in the Dana, and press "Play", and it re-types the current document into the editor.
Downsides: when the battery runs out, it loses everything and mysteriously also wipes the external SD card. Not nice.
It's 2x the size of my Eee 1000 so lost favor as my main writing machine. I'm keeping it for my daughter for when she starts to type.
I´d love a new AMIGA-type computer...
Seriously, why is this not yet in the stores? I don´t want a shitty nettop, i want THIS!
fire hazard !!!!!
What's up with the green turkey costume behind the monitor? How appropriate.
what is up with that work are? Shanty-town?
area...
Boy, not to live up to my screen name, but I remember when pretty much every home computer was based on this principle. My first machine was a TI-99/4A (came out the year I was born) and for a while I was rocking that and a Commodore 64.
Fond memories... it took seven days one time to render a Mandelbrot set to a file at a high enough resolution to print out on my old dot matrix printer.
Kiru
Hold on a second my keyboard broke I'm going to buy a new computer to replace it.
Just replace the numberpad with a PocketPC and load up Innobec SideWindow- there you have your touchscreen display, over USB, leaving the VGA intact. Also works when the Eee is off for a quick check of the Email, thanks to Windows Mobile.
Wonderful if your idea of heaven is living inside a video arcade! Otherwise, yuck!
Beautiful?!?!??
you on crack?!