“Bah!” I hear you say, “learn to touch type!”

I do touch type (however untutored), but there's a reason that typing in a nearly dark room is harder — for me, and I know I'm not alone — and why Apple's illuminated keyboards are really useful. Even if I'm not looking *at each key,* knowing the basic position of hand-on-board helps me type comfortably — subtle, but a big difference.

I wonder if this means the keyboard of my on-order Eee 1000HA (which comes with XP) will be like this one; I hope so, even I'll be running Linux on it. I could always rub out the Windows icon if I really want to

timothy

“Bah!” I hear you say, “learn to touch type!”

I do touch type (however untutored), but there's a reason that typing in a nearly dark room is harder — for me, and I know I'm not alone — and why Apple's illuminated keyboards are really useful. Even if I'm not looking *at each key,* knowing the basic position of hand-on-board helps me type comfortably — subtle, but a big difference.

I wonder if this means the keyboard of my on-order Eee 1000HA (which comes with XP) will be like this one; I hope so, even I'll be running Linux on it. I could always rub out the Windows icon if I really want to

timothy

“Bah!” I hear you say, “learn to touch type!”

I do touch type (however untutored), but there's a reason that typing in a nearly dark room is harder — for me, and I know I'm not alone — and why Apple's illuminated keyboards are really useful. Even if I'm not looking *at each key,* knowing the basic position of hand-on-board helps me type comfortably — subtle, but a big difference.

I wonder if this means the keyboard of my on-order Eee 1000HA (which comes with XP) will be like this one; I hope so, even I'll be running Linux on it. I could always rub out the Windows icon if I really want to

timothy

“Bah!” I hear you say, “learn to touch type!”

I do touch type (however untutored), but there's a reason that typing in a nearly dark room is harder — for me, and I know I'm not alone — and why Apple's illuminated keyboards are really useful. Even if I'm not looking *at each key,* knowing the basic position of hand-on-board helps me type comfortably — subtle, but a big difference.

I wonder if this means the keyboard of my on-order Eee 1000HA (which comes with XP) will be like this one; I hope so, even I'll be running Linux on it. I could always rub out the Windows icon if I really want to

timothy

The strange thing to me is that they would make wholesale, though subtle, changes in the keyboard without addressing the problem with the crummy right shift key and up arrow.