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Cook reckons iPad Pro is the final nail in the PC's coffin
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Fogmeister
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I can genuinely type faster for random stuff like blogs and tweets on my iPad than I can on my MacBook.
There was an apple patent that I read the other day about keyboards with no moving keys but with a haptic engine in each.
The trackpad on the current MacBookPro has no moving parts but the haptic feedback makes it feel like you are pressing it inward.
A keyboard with the same technology would be interesting and much thinner than a conventional one.
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Wed Nov 11, 2015 12:32 pm |
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big_D
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My keyboard requires 2 USB ports to draw power... Not seeing many tablets with 2 USB ports.
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Wed Nov 11, 2015 12:57 pm |
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jonbwfc
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Your keyboard needs 10V? Does it use valves?
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Wed Nov 11, 2015 1:17 pm |
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Spreadie
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OK, I'll bite. What keyboard have you got, Dave?
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Wed Nov 11, 2015 1:35 pm |
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paulzolo
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I do prefer mechanical movement on typing. I still find typing on an iPad troublesome. It's not just the travel/damping that's the issue here, it's also the lack of anything real. You don't really know if you hit a key or not, and software guesses incorrectly a lot of times.
This is why I'm rather interested in the iPad Pro and the Pencil. I found writing on a Newton far better than using a keyboard, and I think in the situations where I use such a device, I am more inclined to use a stylus rather than a soft keyboard, but the universal support the Newton had is not there in iOS.
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Wed Nov 11, 2015 1:36 pm |
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davrosG5
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Shouldn't be too difficult to implement - there's a handwriting recognition engine built into OS X so it shouldn't be too hard for them to port it over (assuming the want to of course).
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Wed Nov 11, 2015 1:56 pm |
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big_D
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_________________ "Do you know what this is? Hmm? No, I can see you do not. You have that vacant look in your eyes, which says hold my head to your ear, you will hear the sea!" - Londo Molari
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Wed Nov 11, 2015 1:59 pm |
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BigRedX
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Tablets, Laptops and desktops are completely different devices each with their own strengths and weaknesses.
For a lot of people the facilities that a tablet offers are more than enough.
For me, until a tablet supports all the applications that I currently run on my MacBook Pro and has the same physical size screen it won't be a feasible substitute. And there is unlikely to be a tablet in the near future that will have enough processing power and connectivity to replace my desktop system.
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Wed Nov 11, 2015 2:31 pm |
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Spreadie
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One of those is just for the passthrough ports, it won't stop you using the keyboard.
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Wed Nov 11, 2015 2:57 pm |
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hifidelity2
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Try using your fingers next time 
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Wed Nov 11, 2015 3:19 pm |
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jonlumb
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Yup, I've got a Blackwidow too and it runs quite happily on just one USB cable.
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Wed Nov 11, 2015 6:28 pm |
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big_D
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When I only plug in one, it doesn't work... I've tried both on their own and it doesn't respond.
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Thu Nov 12, 2015 4:54 am |
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Spreadie
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Thu Nov 12, 2015 8:59 am |
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paulzolo
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There are handwriting recognition keyboards for iOS, but you need a slightly faster iPad than I have, and it’s all going on in the keyboard space - very Palm. The thing with the Newton is that you could write anywhere on the screen, and the text would appear where you wrote it, much like you would expect it to do so in a notepad. The exception to that would be NewtWorks (Newton’s own Claris/AppleWorks software) which would put text where the cursor was. I still think that Siri and dictation are hit or miss - it’s far less accurate for me than I expect, and I don’t mumble. Apple handwriting recognition on the Newton was pretty savvy, and it learned as you went, so on mine it got very accurate. What is on the Mac has been left to languish for a long time, and doesn’t have the depth of tuning that it had on the Newton.
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