Stop Trying To 'Innovate' Keyboards, You're Just Making Them Worse

FuzzNugget writes "Peter Bright brings the hammer down on the increasing absurdities of laptop keyboard design, from the frustrating to the downright asinine, like the 'adaptive keyboard' of the new Lenovo X1 Carbon. He says, 'The X1's Adaptive Keyboard may have a superior layout to a regular keyboard (I don't think that it does, but for the sake of argument, let's pretend that it does), but that doesn't matter. As long as I have to use regular keyboard layouts too, the Adaptive Keyboard will be at a huge disadvantage. Every time I use another computer, I'll have to switch to the conventional layout. The standard layout has tremendous momentum behind it, and unless purveyors of new designs are able to engineer widespread industry support—as Microsoft did with the Windows keys, for example—then their innovations are doomed to being annoyances rather than improvements.' When will laptop manufacturers focus on perfecting a standardized design rather than trying to reinvent the wheel with every new generation?"

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[hessian]

Can you provide a reference for your claim that the ergonomic keyboard produces more stress?

Yes, of course.

Did you know that most people are entirely dependent on rationalistic thinking, which they use to justify their own inclinations by taking selective samples of reality?

You can see it manifested in passive aggressive behavior on the internet. Someone will relate useful data, and immediately people will come out of the woodwork hoping to "disprove" this information by demanding published data, which they full well know doesn't exist.

It's their way of making themselves feel better, don't you think?