I need suggestions as to where to get a replacement laptop keyboard

brian lists at karas.net
Fri Aug 1 11:29:30 EDT 2003


> But I thought Ben was trying to say that this company invested some 
> [potentially significant] resources studying the physiology of the human 
> hand, and devising an innovative keyboard that minimizes the strain 
> associated with typing.  I've seen one of these keyboards up close when 
> a friend showed it to me, they are not run-of-the-mill pieces of 
> plastic.  As just one example of how these keyboards might even cost 
> more to build, in the concave dome-shaped recesses where the keys are 
> housed, just about every key depresses in a different direction.  It 
> must be difficult to mount the keys onto the housing.  I don't know much 
> about it (perhaps Richard could shed more light on it), but it seems to 
> me that this company didn't just make another clone of the classic 
> 10x-key keyboard to make a buck, and you're paying for the expertise 
> that was invested in coming up with the design.

Believe me, I totally grok that they probably put a lot of R&D time into
it, and that its not just another fancy keyboard.  What we don't know is
if the price tag reflects $5M in R&D, or $5K in R&D and $5M for the
CEO's summer house :)




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