Re: Dvorak Laptops

At 1:54 +0000 3/3/07, nkmcalli wrote:
>Hi Everybody,
>
>I finally want to buy a laptop, but I'm a committed Dvoraker now.  I
>use a hard wired keyboard on my desktop.  What do you recommend in
>terms of laptops? Are there any Dvorak laptops?  (I already know the
>answer is no, but I'd love to be wrong.)  Are there any laptops with
>easily moveable keys?  Can anyone recommend a laptop the love as a
>Dvorak typist?

Due to the constraints of space, many laptops end up with keys that 
aren't symmetrical and you may not be able to swap them all.

My suggestion would be to take any Windows or Macintosh computer with 
a normal keyboard and switch the computer to Dvorak using the built 
in software keyboard mappings and see if you can type on it.

Even if you don't think you can touch type, you may find that when 
push comes to shove, if you don't look at the keyboard and try it'll 
just happen.  That's how I discovered that I'd reached the point that 
I could touch type.  Typing in the dark.

There are many benefits to being able to type without needing to look 
at the keyboard and I'd recommend learning to touch type to pretty 
much anyone who asked.

Craig