Comments on: My netbook http://www.rhastings.net/archives/305 The Intersection Of Libraries, Computers and Web Trivialities. Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:25:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: webgoddess http://www.rhastings.net/archives/305/comment-page-1#comment-3444 webgoddess Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:40:18 +0000 http://www.rhastings.net/?p=305#comment-3444 I haven't noticed a problem, but my main beef with regular laptops is that as I'm typing, my palms are resting on the trackpad, making the cursor jump all over the place in my document. This machine is thin and, when my palms are down and resting on something, it's the table on which the netbook sits, not the machine itself. Because of the thinness, the curve of my wrist seems to be less pronounced. Having said all that - almost all of my long-form typing happens at my desktop - other than session notes, I never spend a lot of time typing stuff up on the netbook... I haven't noticed a problem, but my main beef with regular laptops is that as I'm typing, my palms are resting on the trackpad, making the cursor jump all over the place in my document. This machine is thin and, when my palms are down and resting on something, it's the table on which the netbook sits, not the machine itself. Because of the thinness, the curve of my wrist seems to be less pronounced. Having said all that – almost all of my long-form typing happens at my desktop – other than session notes, I never spend a lot of time typing stuff up on the netbook…

]]> By: talkingbookslibrarian http://www.rhastings.net/archives/305/comment-page-1#comment-3443 talkingbookslibrarian Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:28:55 +0000 http://www.rhastings.net/?p=305#comment-3443 Do you find that typing on these ever bothers your wrists? I find on a "regular" laptop my wrists hurt, so I'm wondering if these would be even harder on people's wrists? Any comments, as compared to a "regular" laptop?<br><br>Thanks!<br>Jaime/Talking Books LIbrarian <br><a href="http://talkingbookslibrarian.blogspot.com/">http://talkingbookslibrarian.blogspot.com/</a> Do you find that typing on these ever bothers your wrists? I find on a “regular” laptop my wrists hurt, so I'm wondering if these would be even harder on people's wrists? Any comments, as compared to a “regular” laptop?

Thanks!
Jaime/Talking Books LIbrarian
http://talkingbookslibrarian.blogspot.com/

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