From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Markus Friedl To: Boyd Roberts Cc: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] BTC 5100 keyboards Message-ID: <20010208232732.A11611@faui02.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> References: <05ce01c0902d$64569da0$0ab9c6d4@cybercable.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <05ce01c0902d$64569da0$0ab9c6d4@cybercable.fr>; from boyd@planete.net on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:10:19PM +0100 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 23:27:32 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5ecaf85c-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:10:19PM +0100, Boyd Roberts wrote: > admittedly the keyboard (some 12"x4") on the vaio 505 is not > just a keyboard it looks pretty similar to the BTC 5100. the > whole laptop is only 22.2mm (nearly an inch [25.4mm]) thick. > so as paul says it's great to sit it on your lap and put your > feet up. the mousepad thing would be perfect if it only had > 3 buttons. i used to hate those things, now i like them 'cos > you can put your finger (almost) anywhere and mouse, unlike > a pointing stick. some vaio touchpads allow you to use 1 finger for button #1, 2 fingers mean button #2, and so on.