Comments on: What Apple’s Rumored Tablet Should Look Like

By: Himpoutarou

Himpoutarou — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:33:18 +0000

This might come as a surprise to way too many people, but:

this.laptop..is…for….children! get it?

It’s not for you, you touchtypertypes, it’s for children in developing countries etc.
And have you seen a 6-12 yo. needing to touchtype??
They look at ‘C’ and push it, they look at ‘A’ and push it, then they look at ‘T’ and push it and get really happy when the computer says “C, A, T, cat, that is correct!”.

The keyboard will respond to touch by light in the touched key and a sound like “tic” will be heard, this will suffice.

I still don’t master touchtyping, and look at the keyboard when starting a new word, but could not do with out a feel of the keys.
So I keep to my Eee 904 hd and let the kids have the XOXO.

By: Mitashade

Mitashade — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:36:14 +0000

Well in case of blindness, this wouldn’t be the laptop for you, would it? Besides… a laptop is almost completely useless for someone without sight.

By: Derrick

Derrick — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:53:30 +0000

Reece,

I suspect that Farfield’s comment refers to touch typing (i.e. typing without looking at the keyboard). Without any tactile feedback, it might be difficult to know which keys one is pressing on a touchscreen without looking down at the keyboard.

By: Reece

Reece — Mon, 26 May 2008 04:50:29 +0000

Interesting comment either below this one or obove I have no idea bexouse this is the second comment) how do you know what it looks like if your blind? I don’t want to be mean or anything, just curious.

By: Farfield

Farfield — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:23:03 +0000

Wow that looks quite amazing. I don’t know how you could type without looking though (blind).

I like the idea of using such a tablet for taking notes (when you’re a student for instance) since I don’t like people in sitting in presentations and classrooms with laptop screens in front of them.