Some rumours have suggested that Apple's next keyboard will have a pad for use with InkWell. Apple will apparently eliminate the keypad in favor of an InkPad for use with a stylus and InkWell under OS X.
Discuss.
[ 05-08-2002: Message edited by: Nostradamus ]</p>
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I thought of a 0.7" Titanium or carbon nanotubes (they're growing them as long as 20cm now) powerbook with 2 15.4" screens, the second where the keyboard is now. A thin keyboard with a frame snaps on top of the second lcd - or not -. You can prop up the computer like a book on your desk, seperate the keyboardand and fold the frame under it. This would be your desktop as well.
InkWell enables this.
<strong>Some rumours have suggested that Apple's next keyboard will have a pad for use with InkWell. Apple will apparently eliminate the keypad in favor of an InkPad for use with a stylus and InkWell under OS X.
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I dunno, It seems kind of hard to write on a surface with no visual feedback. It seems kind of hard to write on a near horizontal surface ans seeing your writing on a near vertical screen. I never have been able to write well while looking somewhere else.
I really enjoy my Newton but I think I'd give him a rest if Apple could create a new ibook that could take keyboard or pen input, something like the "clipperbook" discussed here some time back or perhaps like this <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s=1474&a=25081,00.asp" target="_blank">Acer prototype</a>
and I can type way faster than I can write.
You have to be a really avid Graffiti-user or have skills in stenography to write faster than a unschooled but experienced keyboard user.
So.. Inkwell might seem like a good idea, but if you're going to write fast, the keyboard is the way to go. When a ballpoint pen an a paper pad can't compete with a keyboard, how could Inkwell ever do?
Plus Apple would kill themselves in the enterprise (again). <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
Edit: But bring on the iPad!!!
[ 05-08-2002: Message edited by: Nitzer ]</p>
When you get home, put your PDA within Bluetooth reach of your Mac and you're done!
And if you'd rather use a pen than the keyboard, your PDA is right there...
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1) 13" x 7.5", slide out keyboard of an additional 3", so a little smaller than the tibook KB, fuction keys could be onscreen when the kkeyboard is out
2) 8"x 4.5", on screen keyboard, with a slower proc, and 256 megs ram.
both should have and audio in/out via miniplug jacks(earphone jacks)
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<img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
That's awful.
[ 05-09-2002: Message edited by: Fran441 ]</p>