I'm used to them now, but I know what you mean. At least there are keyboards. Soon millennials will only use touchscreens and force the rest of us to do the same.
But, but, but touvhscreens are so gimmicky, inefficient, and silly. they are so awesome.
You can get used to them but the keys never rebound right and stick kinda if not hit straight. Ugh these things are stupid. I need to get to the store and get a real keyboard.
Figured that out after I posted. Thanks. I don't prefer it, but that's what I've got on my laptop and now my keyboard at work. Just hope they don't take away my mouse!
Sorry to hear that. I think that somewhere in the deep, dark recesses of a closet, I have an old-fashioned, unused keyboard. I'm saving it for when I have a desktop computer at home. I just don't like the feel of the flat keys. So far, I haven't had the mouse issue. I do, however, have one plugged into my laptop because I find it much easier and more precise to use than the keypad.
Meh, it's my own laziness to go 45 miles to get a new one. lol. I think I got this thing from someone to use on the entertainment center but never employed it.
Personally I always plugged a regular key board into my laptops at home. Better keys and can sit back with just board on lap.
Chicklet keyboards have come a long way since the 1970ties. the first ones (on the Sinclair machines) had no click and no tactile feedback, the only way you could know you had pressed a key was by watching the computers response on the screen.
Personally I rather like them because they have a membrane separating the keytops from the electrical contacts. That is great for people like me who tend to sneeze in their keyboard. It makes Chicklets much easier to clean up after they get too dirty ;-))
Oh yeah. The old soft rubber key chiclet boards were damn near useless. There are regular key keyboards that have membrane contacts too.
This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at November 22, 2017 1:06 PM MST
No they aren't. Chiclet is how the keys are layed out and designed. Not what is underneath. Chiclet or floating island keyboards means the keys have a flat area in between them are flat themselves. Dome switch keyboards are basically a type of membrane keyboard and come in both standard and chiclet. When you said membrane I assumed you meant dome switch which has a membrane under the keys. I very much doubt you meant these which aren't chiclet keyboards.
This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at November 22, 2017 1:06 PM MST
I remember when they became all the rage. Started with the MacBook Pro of course. Now almost every laptop has one, and more desktop keyboards have them too.
I hates it soes much... They are so awkward to type on and horrible response. I'm being hyperbolic about "right mind" I figured some people would like them better but I cannot fathom why.