New laptop - what do I need to be looking for?

matelodave

flaneurs_lobster said:

matelodave said:

I've got an Asus Vivobook and the computer is really good except that its got silver keys with backlit grey lettering and they are truly awful unless you can get the reading angle just right. I wouldn't get another with silver keys

Black keys with white lettering are infinitely better.

That's what's really wrong with the World these days - nobody bothers to learn how to touch type.

If either my job or hobbies required me to touch type, then I'd put the effort into learn. I'm well past the stage of hunt and peck and can type reasonably fast and accurately with just a couple of fingers but can't see the point of learning to touch type when I'm just coming up to 79 years old.

All I need to do is to be able to see the keys which I cant easily do with grey lettering on a silver keyboard and which gets worse in low light levels when the backlight renders them virtually invisible. I personally dont have a need to type in total darkness either so I turn it off.

GDB2222

matelodave said:

flaneurs_lobster said:

matelodave said:

I've got an Asus Vivobook and the computer is really good except that its got silver keys with backlit grey lettering and they are truly awful unless you can get the reading angle just right. I wouldn't get another with silver keys

Black keys with white lettering are infinitely better.

That's what's really wrong with the World these days - nobody bothers to learn how to touch type.

If either my job or hobbies required me to touch type, then I'd put the effort into learn. I'm well past the stage of hunt and peck and can type reasonably fast and accurately with just a couple of fingers but can't see the point of learning to touch type when I'm just coming up to 79 years old.

All I need to do is to be able to see the keys which I cant easily do with grey lettering on a silver keyboard and which gets worse in low light levels when the backlight renders them virtually invisible. I personally dont have a need to type in total darkness either so I turn it off.

Speech to text is pretty good these days. 

missile

matelodave said:

flaneurs_lobster said:

matelodave said:

I've got an Asus Vivobook and the computer is really good except that its got silver keys with backlit grey lettering and they are truly awful unless you can get the reading angle just right. I wouldn't get another with silver keys

Black keys with white lettering are infinitely better.

That's what's really wrong with the World these days - nobody bothers to learn how to touch type.

If either my job or hobbies required me to touch type, then I'd put the effort into learn. I'm well past the stage of hunt and peck and can type reasonably fast and accurately with just a couple of fingers but can't see the point of learning to touch type when I'm just coming up to 79 years old.

All I need to do is to be able to see the keys which I cant easily do with grey lettering on a silver keyboard and which gets worse in low light levels when the backlight renders them virtually invisible. I personally dont have a need to type in total darkness either so I turn it off.

Why would back lit key board be useful to anyone who can touch type?

flaneurs_lobster

missile said:

matelodave said:

flaneurs_lobster said:

matelodave said:

I've got an Asus Vivobook and the computer is really good except that its got silver keys with backlit grey lettering and they are truly awful unless you can get the reading angle just right. I wouldn't get another with silver keys

Black keys with white lettering are infinitely better.

That's what's really wrong with the World these days - nobody bothers to learn how to touch type.

If either my job or hobbies required me to touch type, then I'd put the effort into learn. I'm well past the stage of hunt and peck and can type reasonably fast and accurately with just a couple of fingers but can't see the point of learning to touch type when I'm just coming up to 79 years old.

All I need to do is to be able to see the keys which I cant easily do with grey lettering on a silver keyboard and which gets worse in low light levels when the backlight renders them virtually invisible. I personally dont have a need to type in total darkness either so I turn it off.

Why would back lit key board be useful to anyone who can touch type?

I learnt to touch type 50 years ago. No way would I be able to find @ or # without looking.

Since I no longer have to write 000's of words reports I don't bother, plus I swap between three keyboards, often daily, and the key positioning is just different enough that I would spend more time correcting mistakes than typing if I tried to TT on them.