[RWP] A really simple notebook for writing only

Thu Sep 26 13:48:25 EDT 2013

Too bad you can't squish a MacBook Pro keyboard into a MacBook Air. I 
went from a pro to an air, and the keyboard is great for the size, but 
not quite as nice. Of course, buying an Apple bluetooth or USB keyboard 
gives you the same thing as found in the pro.

On 9/26/2013 8:21 AM, Stephan Merk wrote:
> Hmm, maybe you know that the Macbook Air was built by Pegatron, an ASUS
> company... :D That's why the VAIO PCs and UX31-Series looks the same. And,
> cheeper with more power if you compare it with an equal Macbook. Apple for
> me, no go for professional work. Sure, for musicians there are other
> criteria, but I don't mind that I must purchase a Macbook with Windows on
> it. In this case I can save money... ;-) According Netbook keyboards this is
> not true. Lenovo and Toshiba have keyboards they are much better as Acer
> built them in their Timeline series.
>
>
> Viele Grüße
>
> --
> Stephan Merk, www.merkst.de
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at reaaccess.com] On Behalf Of TheOreoMonster
> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 1:27 PM
> To: Reapers Without Peepers
> Subject: Re: [RWP] A really simple notebook for writing only
>
> Get and inexpensive ultra book, or dare i say, the originator of the genre a
> macbook air, and ausb numpad. Sure you can find notebooks around the $500
> price point with a  numpad, but they won't be small, light or quiet. There
> is always finding an old netbook, and putting in and SSD, but once again not
> quiet, no numpad, and keyboards usually suck. If you own an iOS device,
> there are plenty of great clean notepad apps on there, and io gear makes a
> device that takes a USB keyboard and turns it into a bluetooth one, so you
> can use any full sized keyboard with a numpad you like with any iOS device
> or other tablet or computer wirelessly.
> On Sep 26, 2013, at 6:15 AM, Stephan Merk <dl7fos at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I know also no Ultrabook with a numpad smaller than 15". The UX51VZ
>> has it, but approx.. 2.600-2.000 EUR...
>>
>>
>> Viele Grüße
>>
>> --
>> Stephan Merk, www.merkst.de
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at reaaccess.com] On Behalf Of Patrick
>> Perdue
>> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 2:31 AM
>> To: Reapers Without Peepers
>> Subject: Re: [RWP] A really simple notebook for writing only
>>
>> I doubt you'll find anything smaller than a 15-inch notebook with a
> numpad.
>> I used to have an Acer Aspire 1 netbook, which had a boring 8GB SSD,
>> 8.9 inch screen. The keyboard wasn't so great, and it definitely
>> didn't have a numpad, though it did have the virtual numpad which is
>> now also getting pretty hard to find in laptop keyboards. You could go
>> the way of a Windows 8 tablet, like the Acer iconia i3w and a
>> bluetooth keyboard (USB if you have a micro to standard USB adapter,)
>> though it isn't all that easy to find a bluetooth keyboard with a numpad,
> either.
>> Most are separate numpads that happen to come with the keyboard, and
>> some of them are completely useless for us, as every button press
>> turns numlock on, presses the key you requested, then turns numlock off
> again.
>> Or, just find an older, reasonably quiet laptop and replace it's hard
>> drive with a cheap SSD. I bought an OCZ Onyx a few years ago for my
>> netbook, which I have now given to my father. It was the smallest,
>> slowest, cheapest thing I could find at the time, a 32GB thing rated
>> at 85MB/sec read, 75MB/sec write, and it runs Windows 7 pretty good
>> for an Atom 270 netbook. The fan comes on occasionally, but you'll have
> that.
>>
>> On 9/25/2013 1:21 PM, Indigo wrote:
>>> Is there a simple notebook with a comfortable keyboard, that has a
>>> small flash drive instead of a whirring hard drive; and hopefully
>>> long battery life?
>>> I once had a miserable little notebook with a puny Atom processer,
>>> that definitely had a whirring hard drive, and got really hot at the
>>> bottom, even though it was a pathetically underpowered thing.
>>> This time I'd like to try for one that could run some version of
>>> windows that would support NVDA and Eloquence, but I don't care about
>>> going online with it, or making music with it, just writing about
>>> music, life, whatever, maybe blogging.
>>> I don't mind transferring files to another computer afterwards if the
>>> word processing notebook is hassle free, totally quiet and cool running.
>>>
>>> I don't want a mobile device with touch screen.
>>> I currently use small slim short stroke Logitech keyboards that I
>>> find comfortable, not the gigantic keyboards of the past, but
>>> definitely not the ultra-cramped keyboards on some laptops either;
>>> where all keys have equal spacing.
>>> I like a little space between F4 and F5, for instance, and a little
>>> seperation between the arrow keys and the qwerty block of keys, and
>>> need a numberPad separate from the qwerty keys Is there such a
>>> creature these days?
>>> Thanks for any tips,
>>> Indi
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