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Jeff Jonas <jeffj@panix.com> wrote:
keyboard. I compute from a deep armchair with my feet up and
have the keyboard in my lap when entering text like now.
Even the pre PC double injection moulded keyboard,
a DEC LK01, was much too heavy in that situation.
There is no race to the bottom with high end
cordless mice like the Logitech MX700 etc.
And they use standard AA NiMH batterys so its trivial
to replace those when that is necessary, for peanuts.
silly enough to use them even when they lose the remote.
than to have the buttons on the front of the VCR itself.
different media even with something like a Yamaha.
spindle that someone else bought for me at a dollar store
which were so bad you could literally see right thru them.
All the rest have never been a problem.
The main problem there is that I need a proper modern cordlessThe main thing I detest with modern products is keyboards. I used
to be able to buy proper double injection moulded keyboards in the
pre PC days but they arent even buyable now even with the branded
products like Microsoft and Logitech and the stupid cheap stuck on
lettering never lasts very long at all.
I'm pleased to agree with that comment since it's on topic
and something that's near and dear to my heart.
I use my computer keyboard every day so it's not just an appliance,
it's a tool. It ought to fit my hand and operate reliably.
You'll have to pry my original IBM PS/2 space-saving keyboard
from my cold dead hands - I ain't giving' this up for anything!
keyboard. I compute from a deep armchair with my feet up and
have the keyboard in my lap when entering text like now.
Even the pre PC double injection moulded keyboard,
a DEC LK01, was much too heavy in that situation.
Yeah, thats the only effect I ever got with those.The keys FEEL RIGHT and really click, not fake springs here!
It's survived a lot of pounding and frustration
and NONE of the keycap legends are smudged.
Only recently I noticed that the matte finish has rubbed off
the left shift key and the "A" key, making the surface smooth.
I dont, I prefer modern scroll wheels.The keyboard has been in daily use for perhaps 10 years.
But I wouldnt go back to corded mice and keyboards again.
In spades with non optical mice either.
I favor trackballs
Its not that so much as just that hardly anyone liked trackballs.and I lament how the award-winning ergonomic ones are
not available anymore. That's not planned obsolescence
or feature-itis so much as the "race to the bottom":
There is no race to the bottom with high end
cordless mice like the Logitech MX700 etc.
And they use standard AA NiMH batterys so its trivial
to replace those when that is necessary, for peanuts.
That isnt happening with high end cordless mice.whoever sells the parts with the lowest price or highest markup wins
by slowly deleting or removing options until they're no longer available.
Which is a much more cost effective approach.My Itac trackball's buttons are fully reprogrammable so
they work without any specialized drivers. Nobody else
does that in hardware, it's always part of their drivers
Doesnt have to be.(which are a nightmare to configure & update).
Yes, because so few use those buttons and so few areSimilarly:
- VCRs have been stripped of all their buttons so
there's no way to use them without the remote control.
silly enough to use them even when they lose the remote.
It makes a lot more sense to have replacement remotes availableIf the remote is lost or broken, then most of the features are "lost"
because the universal remotes don't give all the original buttons.
than to have the buttons on the front of the VCR itself.
And because its such a tiny niche market now.- home camcorders keep losing features such as aux
mic input, which several friends require for their taping.
They can't afford the $xx,000 "professional" cameras just to get
features that are no longer included in the $x00 home versions.
- high end audio equipment is hard to get: some is no longer
made AT ANY PRICE due to Chinese products flooding the
market with lower prices and lowered expectations.
Reliability is irrelevant now with DVD burners so cheap.- similarly, the Yamaha CD burners were top rated for
reliability of mechanism and firmware. They're no longer
available thanks to market erosion to Chinese CD burners.
Thats bullshit.For the home-professional, I don't care if I can buy a new CD
burner every week or every day, I need RELIABLE OPERATION
that these new disposible ones cannot provide.
Anyone with a clue burns more than one copy onI need CDs that are burned precisely to read well a week, a year or 10
years later. It's unsure if the cheapie CD burners can really achieve that :-(
different media even with something like a Yamaha.
I've never had a problem with CD blanks except oneAnd similarly, the CD blanks are sometimes crap-tastic despite
all the advances in manufacturing tech that makes it possible to
create high-reliability media, if anyone's willing to pay the extra pennies.
spindle that someone else bought for me at a dollar store
which were so bad you could literally see right thru them.
All the rest have never been a problem.