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Acer has seen the future
PC MAKER Acer intends to launch an über-thin laptop with a frameless touchscreen keyboard.
According to Digitimes, sources have had a few interesting glimpses of the laptop, which they claim will be launched by the end of this year.
Acer's very thin laptop will use the back of the panel's glass substrate as the cover for the frameless touchscreen keyboard. Sources claim that Acer will "adopt Corning's reinforced glass substrate and simply print colour on its back to allow the substrate to function like a notebook cover for a frameless design."
Just how thin will this laptop be? The touchscreen keyboard already saves Acer valuable millimetres because it doesn't need the depth of incorporating a real keyboard with real, er, keys. Add the nifty glass panel design technique to make whatever it's working on even smaller and you might have a contender for the world's thinnest laptop.
Several big players have already laid claim to that title, with the Apple Macbook Air, HP Voodo Envy 133 and Dell Adamo XP all having previously held the crown, and all of which are stiff, and thin, competition indeed. µ
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Without Tactile or Haptic feedback, this thing wont work well.
We longed for the feel of real keyboard, and haptic feedback does offer some of that realistic keyboard feel.
Because that requires landing your fingers initially -- were you typing "fjdkls;a", or just getting into position? Also, hitting a solid surface will KILL your fingers with a FEW impacts.
Nope, hunt-and-peck is the future. The number of words used will reduce until selectable from short lists... and it will be doubleplusUNgood.
@Mil
I'm with you on this one.
fashion struck against reason when laptop mouse-pads became flush fitted instead of sunken with distinct borders. my pointer frequently 'teleports' to elsewhere on the screen - bring back the old style one that goes EXACTLY where you want it to, nothing more, nothing less.
its nothing short of shoddy
If your left pinky twitches up, that could be a q, twitches down a z, simply makes a stabbing motion would be an a. Just do similar motions to a keyboard and have a way of detecting what the hand is doing. The first few prototypes would be guaranteed to suck, but I think long-term it's a good idea. Of course, it would have to be a head-mounted display, but that'll arrive at some point.
IMHO, this is silly at best. People who type fast and were taught to type fast and good know the basics:
1. Index fingers TOUCH the F and J (thats why you have those bumps on them so you can find them without looking)
2. Thumbs on space
3. Other fingers TOUCH A-F and J-;
This is a basic position from which you can easily reach all other keys with minimum effort and high precision. If you have touch sensitive keyboard you have to keep your fingers well abouve the surface with no tactile clues about the whereabous of the fingers.
Silly. Useless. Fashionable. I am sure it will sell well. Still useless.