http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/ Engadget Comments for Acer working on frameless laptop with touchscreen keyboard? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Mar 8th 2010 6:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Mar 8th 2010 6:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Mar 8th 2010 6:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Mar 8th 2010 6:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/If we're talking features, maybe include some sort of piezoelectrics in the keyboard so it can give SOME tactile feedback, but something better than surepress]]>Mar 8th 2010 6:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/
how about the keyboard is a metamaterial and it uses an effect similar to muscles flexing that raises keys which depress under your touch ]]>Mar 8th 2010 7:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Better still if we could have the screen make physical exdentations when its in keyboard mode so you can 'feel' the keys, and turns into a flat surface in tablet mode. Not THAT I would buy.]]>Mar 8th 2010 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Mar 8th 2010 8:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/I want one. Though can we replace the LCD if it's broken? I just replaced my LCD on my laptop for $60. I don't think I can with this one. Though, you can never say never.]]>Mar 8th 2010 8:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/
No USB 3.0 ports. Disappointing. ]]>Mar 8th 2010 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Mar 8th 2010 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/
]]>Mar 8th 2010 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Dream form]]>Mar 8th 2010 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/
If the keyboard is just glass then that is even more spill proof than a keyboard tray, as there should be zero openings into the guts of the system from the top of the unit (just wipe away). Keyboard trays have come a long way though...my Dell Latitude E4300 tray is made so if I spill I can just dump the contents out quickly and the mobo is inverted so spills aren't nearly as hazardous. ]]>Mar 8th 2010 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Mar 8th 2010 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Hmm. I'm not seeing the usefulness of this as a portable laptop. I would love to mount this thing into my coffee table though due to its spillproofiness.]]>Mar 8th 2010 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/
Thats actually a big one for me. But also the fact that the keyboard layout can be easily changed (different languages).]]>Mar 8th 2010 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Mar 8th 2010 6:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/ I want two!]]>Mar 8th 2010 7:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/No in this decade- unless you don't want to compute. I don't even think Moore's law supports this mockup. Maybe if it was just used as a calculator... but I don't see ANYTHING like this in ten years. Nice Look tho.]]>Mar 8th 2010 7:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/And that same spirit is what drives those people that still use XP.]]>Mar 8th 2010 7:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/No, I actually could care less about the shiny. I care about safety, efficient use of resources and support. And I've had less crashes with 7 than with XP, and I'm not alone in that.]]>Mar 9th 2010 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Mar 8th 2010 6:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/
Sony - "island" keyboard
Apple - OSX
ASUS - netbook
Acer - em... frameless laptop with touchscreen. Not bad though]]>Mar 8th 2010 6:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/None of those ideas were original anyway;
Sony - chiclet keyboard - dates back to calculators and ZX Spectrum.
Apple - OS X - UNIX code is stolen (without thanks, may I add) from the open source community.
Asus - Netbook - Basically just an under-priced, underpowered ultra-portable notebook.
In a market so saturated; it's difficult (verging on impossible) to find a product with true, original inspiration.]]>Mar 8th 2010 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/
http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/certificates/1190p.pdf

]]>Mar 8th 2010 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/
Convergence is all the rage now. =)]]>Mar 8th 2010 6:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Add the possibility to bake your pancakes between the two lids when shut, and i'm sold.]]>Mar 8th 2010 6:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Mar 8th 2010 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Mar 8th 2010 6:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Mar 8th 2010 6:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Mar 8th 2010 6:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/it might be fancy, make things thinner, and be useful for some applications, or some functions of applications.
yet, any typing more than a few LOL or IMHO are cumbersome.
even with tactile feedback it is not great, you need to constantly watch where and what you are typing., and constantly either readjust your hand position, or do corrections.

most of the applications we use need some kind of keys you can feel, and where you feel the difference between the keys easilly.
these would be: typing longer than a few words, gaming (your fingers know what key you are on) drawing, moving a mouse on the screen without making huge arm gestures....

I dearly hope some show me wrong, but I have yet to find any appli on my convertible notebook, or 3GS where I do not need to grab the mouse or type on the keyboard instead of touching a flat surface, just because it is more precise, and more easy.

oh and the future: I always found it weird in Star trek, raising meters on a touch screen in the middle of combat or the teleportation where they say they need to be precise....]]>Mar 8th 2010 6:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/replying to myself:
the frameless screen is a great thing though!]]>Mar 8th 2010 6:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Mar 8th 2010 6:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Mar 8th 2010 6:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Mar 8th 2010 6:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Mar 8th 2010 6:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/
then Apple legal calls down,

"Relax, we're on it."]]>Mar 8th 2010 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Mar 8th 2010 6:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Mar 8th 2010 6:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Mar 8th 2010 6:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/
Or I can just be blowing this out of my ass, for it could just be for looks and have bragging rights.]]>Mar 8th 2010 6:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Mar 8th 2010 6:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Mar 8th 2010 6:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Mar 8th 2010 6:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Mar 8th 2010 6:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Mar 8th 2010 6:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/
Please cover your mouth.]]>Mar 8th 2010 7:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/acer-working-on-frameless-laptop-with-touchscreen-keyboard/Mar 8th 2010 8:42AM