Re: Dock padding_pixels suggestion
Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]>
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On 2007-07-12, Ben Hutchings <ben-/[email protected]> wrote: > There exists a second-hand market, where laptops are much cheaper. And much more broken too. And I really don't have much use for a bulky laptop. >> The OLPC is probably the best laptop out=20 >> there, supposing the screen really works in low-power mode too... > > The screen is a thing of beauty, but I doubt you'd get on with the > keyboard. The only good laptop keyboard I have met, was on a 8086 "suitcase computer". For the kind of device I'm really after, I actually think that an integrated keyboard should be dropped. The device would normally be used by its touch screen when mobile. It could, however, be docked to a keyboard with full-sized keys with full range. (But not a full-sized keyboard. Modern keyboards are way too bulky, and getting bulkier with the multimedia shit. The numpad -- which makes the right-handed mouse even more painful than it has to be -- can be dropped straight off. The cursor keys etc. can also be compacted as has been done on some keyboards.) ... Having read some new information about the OLPC screen, it's worse than I expected. The monochrome mode is OK, but the colour mode is an awful blurred hack, because it doesn't have proper pixels: colour is essentially created by diffracting the backlight into a diagonal rainbow spectrum, and shutting it off with the monochrome pixels [1]. I probably couldn't stand it (unless the resolution was much higher than even that in the OLPC). Still, at least it tries to use little power etc. I'm still waiting for the dual-mode e-paper/colour display... or the fast colour e-paper display. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC -- Tuomo