Random Rants
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Indeed. Regarding the MacBook, I have been a Mac user since 1991, but the keyboards on their laptops just plain suck, and this new ultra-thin design means even less key travel. My daily driver is a 2011 MBP, but I am compelled to use a Windows gaming laptop (that features a great keyboard) when I need to write.The physics of the matter are, a great keyboard requires a thick laptop, and I suppose customers have voted with their dollars that the keyboard is good enough, give us thin.
Its funny to me that they range into 5 figures. The reason people pay a premium for a watch is that it is an heirloom item that will work the same and provide the same value for generations. Apple Watch will be obsolete every year. I'm sure they'll find some suckers and prove me wrong though.
The new MacBook and MacBook Air are totally mystifying in terms of product line segmentation. Consumers are given Sophie's Choice: to get an underpowered machine with a single port for charging AND interfacing, or to get a more powerful machine with better connectivity but an embarrassingly obsolete screen.
I was considering an upgrade until I saw what they brought, now I'll have to look elsewhere.
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Absolutely. And being a nomad is a great lifestyle. I have friends who are all about a "family home" and paid-off mortgage. I'd rather be a ramblin' guy (banjo music here).
Amen. Really a luxury than an investment IMO.
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Same here, hahaha. I have these loud, leaf-spring keyboards that I use when nobody else is around (which is seldom), because they are loud as hell.
(I have three such keyboards, all slightly different. This may indicate a "problem".)
^I love my mechanical (DasKeyboard) keyboards
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It's like tasting decent scotch for the first time. One can't then return to the whiskey equivalent of plonk.
When I connect one of these to my MBP, my typing speed and accuracy roughly doubles. But that racket . . .
^I love my mechanical (DasKeyboard) keyboards
feck, feck, feck. I have no idea I needed one of them until now…..
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@Bob:
It's like tasting decent scotch for the first time. One can't then return to the whiskey equivalent of plonk.
When I connect one of these to my MBP, my typing speed and accuracy roughly double. But that racket . . .
^I love my mechanical (DasKeyboard) keyboards
feck, feck, feck. I have no idea I needed one of them until now…..
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feck, feck, feck. I have no idea I needed one of them until now…..
Take a look at The Keyboard Company @Giles.
If you want to get really geeky then there are different types of switches. I've got one with the Cherry Blues, which are like the old school IBM keyboards.
And if you want an old IBM model, the Keyboard Company carries them.
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I'd be going http://www.daskeyboard.com/daskeyboard-4-professional-for-mac/ in Cherry Brown (less clickly, same feeling). Still like IBM feeling, and keeps the sanity of those around you :). I use brown @ work and blue @ home. Mrs Snowy wishes I'd bring the brown home
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I've got a BluetoothMajestouch Minila keyboard. I don't use number pads, so prefer a more compact design.
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@tmg there's also a very nice wooden wrist rest for the Minila. Not that I'm trying to push you over the edge, or anything…
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How can you run a business so incompetently, that one week you're running employees into the ground at 70+ hours a week and the next not have enough orders to produce a 40 hour week? I understand a port strike has had adverse consequences on business, but you can't honestly expect to keep people like this. Glad I'm already looking elsewhere
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Right now I am writing the most boring "dissertation" ever. The subject is quality control (EN ISO 9000 ff for example), due Friday.
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Sympathies, I have a 9 hour IOSH training course tomorrow hosted by the worlds most boring man
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I feel so sorry for you, I have something similar on Thursday AND Friday.
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I don't know about you, but my plan is lots of coffee and sugar…...all day.
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Coffee at my school… Well, I would not call it coffee. I don´t think they use water. Or coffee.
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…well...quality management and control is my job...
But somehow I survive
