I am wondering if any of you prefer your keyboard that goes to a desk top over the keyboard that is on a laptop. I love the convenience of my laptop but typing on the keyboard makes me crazy. for some reason it jumps and hops and opens things I don't want open.
a couple of weeks ago, I got so aggravated with it, I took out the wired keyboard that came with my desk top, which is 9 years old. I prefer wireless keyboards and this one has been in the box it came in and never opened.
I sat laptop on table, put the keyboard usb in and wow, what a difference. I sat the box it came in on my lap and I can type as fast as I did in high school on a typewriter. Totally different experience.
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I just hate lap tops etc. I have an iPad that drives me mad . give me my 2 desktops any day.
Briony
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I prefer a desk top over a laptop for a lot of things and keyboards is one of them. Of course a laptop has the convenience of being able to go anywhere you want. I haven't used mine in a really long time though. It was working so slow that it took forever to do anything.
Hello,
I do not like the laptop keyboards. I prefer the wired kind too. Both the mouse and the keyboard have to be wired. Enjoy your day!
Now your talking my world. 30+ years of office work. My set up which began at the office is laptop to the right; wireless keyboard and mouse (wired is fine too); 17" monitor in front of me attached to the laptop with a HDMI cord. In other the words the laptop becomes the same as a PC.
Yet the laptop is easily disconnected and carried to another location. Sometimes along with the wireless keyboard but almost always with the wireless mouse. My recliner armrest works great as a mouse pad.
The added bonus with the use of a monitor is your can use both screens and have two programs open at once such as photo editing on one and internet on the other.
I had never thought of using a keyboard with laptop! My first laptop I could turn off the touchpad with a physical button that I had to push to turn it back on...I still miss that.
I have gotten used to my laptop keyboard. It took a while and I had to learn to 'curl'my fingers a bit higher so as to not hit things I didn't want to open. lol My hubby uses his separate keyboard all the time though.
Happy weekend. xo Diana
Hari OM
I have worked my laptop this way for years! It has the added advantage of placing the laptop up a level to suit the eyes and therefore, more ergonomic. When I travel with Voovoo the Vaio, though, I generally make do with her onboard k/b. That jumping and opening you refer to? That is not the k/b itself, but a result of the thumbs or other parts of the hand getting too 'intimate' with the control patch at the front. The warmer the machine gets, the more sensitive does that patch. When I use the onboard k/b, I cover that patch with a paper or cloth. I use a peripheral mouse for navigation so don't require that patch at all. YAM xx
My Mad Tecchie is in full gear!! You are so clever! I never learned to touch type. I type fast, but with my own method that I learned myself. So I love my little laptop keyboard. Phil is like you, he can touch type and does not like laptop keyboards. He would not get a laptop for that reason. That is why I bought him the Fire last Christmas, which you were so helpful with. He likes it.
I do not like laptops period! I have one for a backup just in case but I will always be a desktop lady! The keyboard and small screen is the main things I don't like about laptops. I have a few keyboards I will have to try to remember what you did the next time I update my laptop. Hugs
I like sitting at my desk to do computer work. I have my laptop on, a flat screen monitor and use a wireless keyboard and mouse. If I want to sit in a comfortable chair I can access apps on my mobile phone to read blogs etc. I sometimes comment from my iPhone but prefer to write and edit from my keyboard and monitor. XxL
I love my laptop, keyboard, touchpad and all. But, you have to do what works best for you.
I use my laptop as "desktop" most of the time, it sits on a special computer table in my study and is attached to an extra monitor and printer as well as extra keyboard and mouse :) It's just good to also be able to detach it and use it somewhere else if I want to...
This strikes home SO much! Brilliant!
I've never done more than experiment with a laptop …..and once trying to work that little finger pad, I nearly erased my boss' boss essay. (That's what she gets for asking me to proof it while she went to the ladies room!)
While at the church I have to work on a MAC, and the keyboard is so little, it looks like something in a Barbie house. I'm wondering now, when I have to go up there if I couldn't bring along my own HP keyboard. Hmmmm…..
I don't mind my laptop at all. I guess I have just gotten used to typing on it. I do ove having a wireless mouse though...Wish I had a wireless printer to go with it though.
Hubby has the desktop in his computer room and can go lickety split on the keyboard 2 finger wise.
We do bring the laptop into the family room when watching tv and puttering on the computer at the same time. That's about as techie as I can get..(:0)
About 3 years ago we bought a new desk top it has a wireless mouse and key board I love them.
I LOL'd at the 9 years. When B retired he got a new watch; however, nothing was wrong with his watch...so he put the new one in the drawer. 9 years later
he got it out and lo and behold it worked.
Hugs Cecilia
Wow! I can see from Sandra and comments that I am in the low, low range of tech savvy. I thought that hop, skip and jumping thing was my laptop misbehaving but maybe it is my own fumbling. What I learned in my high school typing class no longer applies for my one-handed efforts. Also having the option of sitting on our window seat with my legs stretched out in front of me, the laptop on my lap and the option for taking in the trees, birds and critters out the windows next to me gives my eyes a break and feeds my spirit. So aggravating or not, it is a laptop for me.
Sandra - I am sooooooooooooooooooo with you. Had the laptop keyboard. My hands are too big. I have a desktop and a keyboard - that is how I fly! I can type the same way as in high school too - they don't offer keyboarding at school anymore. sandie
I HATE wires...all wires...LOATHE THEM...:)jp
I hate wires too. My pet peeve are the ones to the TV.
I'm happy with the attached keyboard on both of my computers but I do understand where you are coming from. Glad that is working for you.
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