The Lenovo ThinkPad X100e and ThinkPad Edge 13 have a completely new keyboard design. For the first time, Lenovo is using a chiclet, or island-style keyboard. Lenovo likes to call it an isolation keyboard, since the defining characteristic is that there’s more space between each of the keys.The company has posted a detailed article about […]
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Aisonic’s mini-keyboards could be the perfect companion for mini-tablets
Tablets were everywhere at CES this year. NVIDIA had them, Freescale had them, dozens of Asian companies had them, and the Notion Ink Adam tablet was one of the most hyped products of the show. And many of the tablets showed a lot of promise as portable media players and web surfing tools. But call […]
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Apple Tablet could have an on-screen, multitouch keyboard
Microsoft, Apple, TechCrunch, Archos, and a fair number of other companies are throwing some weight behind the tablet concept. And I’ve been pretty skeptical for one major reason: text input. The idea of a handheld device without a physical keyboard for surfing the web, reading eBooks, and watching video seems like a good idea, until […]
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Typing test: Bigger keyboards aren’t always better
As I mentioned the other day, I have a whole lot of mini-laptops sitting on my desk at the moment. So I decided that today would be as good a time as any to do a little keyboard face-off. I’d already kind of decided that of the netbooks I’m using this week the Samsung Go […]
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Asus starts outfitting older netbooks with newer chiclet-style keyboards
We already knew that the Asus Eee PC 1000HE chiclet-style keyboard was compatible with older Eee PC 1000 and 1000H models, thanks to the work of some nebtook hackers. But now it looks like Asus has confirmed things by playing a little mix and match with some netbook parts. Netbook News.de spotted a few older […]
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A closer look at the Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2
When Lenovo unveiled the IdeaPad S10-2 yesterday, some eagle-eyed readers noticed an update that had slipped my mind. Lenovo retooled the keyboard so that it features a nice big shift key on the right side of the keyboard that you won’t mix up with any of the arrow keys. Now the folks at Laptop Magazine […]
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Asus Eee PC 1000HE keyboard is compatible with Eee PC 1000H
The Asus Eee PC 1000H and 1000HE are very similar. But the newer Eee PC 1000HE has a slightly faster processor, a better battery, and a new “chiclet-style” keyboard that many users find easier to type on. But if you already have an Eee PC 1000H and don’t want to buy a new computer just […]