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Dell criples its latest business laptops with 'casual' keyboard layout
"A picture is worth a thousand words", so here are the details:
Dell Latitude E6*10 (E6410/E6510/...): Dell Latitude E6*20 (E6420/E6520/...): In other words ... no more 'classical' navigation keys layout like that: [INS] [HOM] [PGU] [DEL] [END] [PGD] With that 'improvement' Dell business laptops became 'just another laptop' instead of a real ThinkPad rival, if You want to get real Dell business laptop, then E6*10 series is last of the models to have *REAL* business keyboard to work with, the newer models are just toys, move on (like ThinkPad EDGE to be precise).
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I would agree that's a bit too big for a netbook. Personally, I can't live without my numpad. I 10-key pretty regulary, and it would drive me nuts to have to use the top row numbers.
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For us old-schoolers, I think we like the traditional keyboard layout because, well, that's what we're used to. For newer computer users, they may not have those biases. I sometimes wonder if these alternate layouts are not, in part, an attempt by manufacturers to develop a new set of biases and thereby a new sticky/loyal set of users. If they can capture a bunch of newbs and get them used to their special layout, they may find it hard to switch to another brand. Whereas if they had made a more traditional layout, users could easily switch to another of the same or similar. Of course, they risk alienating the traditionalists.
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I don't know, I think it has more to do with design v.s. usability. From a pure design point of view, these "crap" keyboards are actually better and more aesthetically pleasing ... From a usability point of view ... well ...
It's the same with the reflecting glare screens and shiny blingbling covers so many laptops sport these days ... By the way, at work I use a "standalone" thinkpad keyboard (this one), they have an enlarged ESC key, moves the INS key to the left, and enlarged the DEL key. This is probably the only deviation from the standard US-international layout that I really like.
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You're probably right about that; no doubt there are several factors at play, and commercial differentiation is only one. Perhaps I'm too paranoid about how the big corps are trying to harvest our fleece.
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Sometimes its also about cutting costs: wide-screen is cheaper to manufacture than a 4:3 screen. apparently the wide-screen monitors are great for watching movies. but how many ppl watch movies on their computer? i don't :-P |
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The reason is simple, on the African planes there was very little reason for humans to loop up, and very good reasons to look around the landscape 16:9 ratio might be overdoing it though, especially with smaller screens ... AFAIK 4:3 isn't more expensive to produce, rather, widescreens are produced more, so they're cheaper to produce per unit.
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For example, a 21" 4:3 has 218 square inches while 21" 16:9 widescreen has 211 square inches ... its very little for a single screen, but its huge if it comes to thousands of sold screens.
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4:3 has 211.68 sq in 16:9 has 188.44 sq in Cute problem though, a square maximizes the area for a given diagonal rectangle. Last edited by IdOp; 27th April 2011 at 12:21 AM. Reason: diameter --> diagonal |
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There is also such keyboard with numeric keyboard. I sometimes watch movies on the laptop ;p
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@IdOp
You are right, my bad.
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