The new Apple Macbook features what some are calling a Chiclet keyboard, though the Wikipedia definition seems to suggest it is not. Rather, it shares the square keys of my first computer, a Tandy Color Computer. Nostalgia is great and all, but I’m looking forward to some typing reports from the field. I still remember how my S key would get stuck under the template and have to be poked at until it returned. It doesn’t appear to be the best set up for touch typing, but who knows? I can’t imagine that Apple would have picked form over function (wink).
Macbook Chicklets?
The new Apple Macbook features what some are calling a Chiclet keyboard, though the Wikipedia definition seems to suggest it is not. Rather, it shares the square keys of my first computer, a Tandy Color Computer. Nostalgia is great and all, but I’m looking forward to some typing reports from the field. I still remember how my S key would get stuck under the template and have to be poked at until it returned. It doesn’t appear to be the best set up for touch typing, but who knows? I can’t imagine that Apple would have picked form over function (wink).
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