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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