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Ryan131

8:09 PM on 19 November, 2009

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What's an isolation keyboard?

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Helmore

8:42 PM on 19 November, 2009

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@Ryan - It's a special kind of keyboard that better isolates your hands from the heat emitted by the laptop and thus gives you cooler and less sweaty hands.

He means a chiclet style of keyboard as used on the Sony VAIO X505, which was one of the first laptops to use this style of keyboard.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/laptops/review/2004/06/03/Sony-VAIO-VGN-X505VP-Ultra-Slim-Notebook/p1 <<-----Sony Vaio X505 review.

Most people think it was Apple who came with the idea to use it on a notebook though.

Wiki:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiclet_keyboard

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Helmore

8:46 PM on 19 November, 2009

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Oh sorry, my mistake. Too bad there is no edit function. The latter part of my previous post is a bit wrong though, as this laptop does not have a chiclet style keyboard. The keyboard on this notebook simply has keys that have a more apparent spacing between them and are actually 'open' underneath (i.e. no downward facing slopes on the sides of the keys).

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Gordon394

2:10 AM on 20 November, 2009

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@Helmore - Sony came up with isolation keyboard, Apple copied it ;)

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Tony Walker

2:53 AM on 20 November, 2009

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Whilst I haven't been able to check the latest crop of Thinkpad keyboards, I assume they are still the best, despite Lenovo's own lappies having rubbish keyboards.

Earlier today (oops, yesterday, have just looked at clock) I think I stumbled into the new pretender for the "King Of Laptop Keyboards" crown. Namely the Acer FineTip keyboard. As present on the One 751, the 1410, the 1810TZ, and others, the quality and feel is quite staggering.

I was so impressed, I nearly walked out of PC World with a red 1810TZ under my arm.

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Steve

9:20 AM on 20 November, 2009

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@ Gordon

Actually, shouldn't the ZX81 be credited with using the isolation keyboard first? ;-)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Sinclair_ZX81.jpg

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Andy0d2

8:39 PM on 20 November, 2009

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meh. Just keep us posted about the acer 1820P tablet. I think that could be the biggest selling 'netbook' (ultraportable), if priced right, for the first half of next year.

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Xiphias

10:27 PM on 20 November, 2009

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@Steve: Well, the ZX Spectrum at least.

It's a shame these Thinkpad Notebooks are so big, I'd prefer a proper 9" one. I wonder how they'll be priced and what sort of quality they'll be. £500 and X300 quality would be nice, but may be pushing it at bit at 12-13"

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