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This Traxon TG3 only partly meets your needs, but may still be worth considering. Sounds good but a standard key layout is a requirement. I was given one of these many years ago by a guy who used them for astronomical projects. According to him red works best in low light because your eyes adjust m...

The 107 layout code keyboards are out of stock. I think people would complain if there was no number pad since lights are addressed by number and a typical thing to enter is “c23t29a45[enter]”. Most people do use the number pad, with hunt and peck on their left hand for the occasional letter. (That ...

I'm having trouble finding a good keyboard for use in a sound/lighting desk at a theatre. Can you guys help find one? I need: 1. Tactile switches The operator will typically rest their finger on a key for a couple minutes and then press the key at a precise moment in time. Having the press fail to a...

And what I'm saying is that if your system isn't getting patched, things like buffer overruns and the like are going to happen, they're going to get shell scripts on your system, or elsewhere, and they're going to execute and attack things. It doesn't work that way mate. You clearly don't know how ...

http://origin.arstechnica.com/images/tiger/mail-big.jpg See I just think that's far too gaudy. I like things simple, this is how I have Yosemite setup (click for full sizes): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/147461/screenshots/Screen%20Shot%202015-03-15%20at%209.02.06%20am.png https://dl.dropbox...

The peak of OS X was somewhere around 10.6. Since then, it’s been a steady decline, from an interface/end user perspective, and the latest version is ugly as sin (though sure, at the basic API level, there are some improvements, and they’ve done a great job with power efficiency). The one thing tha...

Now consider that OS X is just a newer version of the exact same OS . It's got all those services hanging around, not being patched, actively being exploited. Really, OS X prior to 2 versions back from current is just as dangerous as XP. That means if you're running even Lion on a network connected...

possibly the intel graphics are a bit weak. March of time i guess have to move on from 32 bit some time. A bit weak? I've heard they're just not worth it at all. Might not even boot, to be honest. My Mac Pro's stock graphics card doesn't. In my experience, Yosemite runs better on slow hardware than...

Mine's a 2009 model, so it runs Yosemite fine without any EFI hacks. The "Unibody" (but still white plastic) one? I never did know anyone with one of those. The MacBook's time in the sun was until the two MacBook Airs of the apocalypse came a riding and everyone went metal. No it was the last non-u...

Ah, *the* MacBook! And without cracks in the case too. I hear that was less of a problem with the black ones. My white MacBook doesn't have any cracks either. I think Apple quietly fixed the issue in more recent models. My battery is gone however, and the LCD backlight has dropped out a few times w...

Here's a thought: what if Apple could put a haptic feedback mechanism ("taptic" as they call it in the trackpad and the watch) behind every individual key? Those could be addressed individually, as many manufacturers now do with backlights, and might be able to make up for the minuscule travel by o...

But if you’re used to plugging your computer in while sitting on the couch, or in bed, or at your kitchen table, etc., it’s another story. My brother tripped over my laptop cord in ~2006 (a 12" powerbook, used the previous round TRS-type plug), and it broke the plug off inside the jack and broke th...

Well, I guess if a keyboard is reasonably good it may indeed take months to decide whether you actually like it or not, but if it's unpleasant to type on, it must be immediately apparent, no? No, because you have to give yourself time to adjust. For example when I switched from full size to tenkeyl...

Re: form over function.. that's nothing new. Apple was a pure tech company in 1996 when they were about to go bankrupt. Steve Jobs pulled them out of bankruptcy and made Apple the most successful company in the world by making "form" a priority. The first form product shipped two years after steve j...

Also Apple has eliminate all moving parts from the electronics. So a drop is far less likely to damage anything.

When Apple introduced MagSafe, MacBooks had one quarter the battery life they have today. These days you just don't plug in at all if you'd have to run the cable somewhere dangerous. It's a non issue, I don't hear of anyone destroying an iPad where MagSafe would've helped. I think modern MagSafe has...

I don't trust a journalist to tell me whether or not a keyboard is any good. But why? Journalists actually type for a living and most of them can tell if a keyboard is good or bad. I type more than any journalist and it takes me months to decide if I like a switch. These guys/gals are writing their...

To make it that thin, Apple had to make some adjustments, starting with the keyboard. It takes a little getting used to, since it doesn't really feel like any standard MacBook keyboard I've used. The same could be said for anything that's not a shitty scissor switch keyboard. I don't trust a journa...

just have a 12TB nas that can max out 2 gagabit interfaces in a LAGG config, way faster than any internal HDD :P I prefer to have a CentOS virtual machine in a DataCentre on the other side of the country. It's a bit slower to get files obviously, but video is the worst offender and I can stream 108...

The only people I’ve heard complaining about this are programmers and IT guys I'm a programmer, and I'm not complaining about it. I'll be buying one of these things, unless the keyboard is a total disaster. I definitely can't use this as my primary computer, but that hasn't really ever been a good ...

It's certainly not universal, as of USB 3.1 it's no longer serial, and it's not really a bus either. On the other hand, it’s a EU-mandated plug that will soon be used for every cellphone in the world, and not long after that, every other kind of small gadget, and it does 100W DC, which hopefully me...

I'm not saying we should go back to some of those old ideas and floppies, tho many of them were quite inventive, but we may need to be more careful about accepting the BS these new blend of the *best-of-my-recipes* offer. Yep, there is something just slightly off when you replace engineers with des...

I understand the need for having a lot of ports, this is the back of my mac: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/147461/screenshots/IMG_3266.jpg However, that's not the only thing I need to be productive — I also need big screens: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/147461/screenshots/IMG_3263.jpg I...

I don't think "portability" and "connectivity" have to be mutually exclusive. Just last week I saw an ASUS ultrabook based on the same Core M CPU, which is actually slightly thinner than the new MacBook, but still has 3 full-size USB ports. You mean the UX305? The tech specs say it's 1mm thinner th...

Then Apple marketing must use both real and synthetic photos. :| You'll note that the time is almost always 9:42am on press materials, and that the pentalobular screws of iPhones in photos are aligned with one another and the case of the phone. That's a great article about Peter Belanger, thank you...

Well, might as well bow out with a gaffe. USB's positioned to obviate Thunderbolt now. Assuming, perhaps unwisely, USB keeps the pressure on and responds to Thunderbolt 3 with better bandwidth of its own as well. JUST KEEP THE SYMMETRICAL CONNECTOR GUYS, KAY! Keep in mind thunderbolt is currently u...

Pretty sure USB 3.1 isn’t going to be able to handle 5k displays at 60 Hz yet. The new version of Thunderbolt should be able to though. Thunderbolt 2 is limited to 4K, and it can just barely pull that off. 5K allegedly requires twice as much bandwidth as 4K. AFAIK dell is working on a 5K panel that...

the stroke widths, glyph sizes, etc. are all over the map. Surely you need to see it in person before you can judge that. Photos on an LCD isn't accurate enough to judge. I’m definitely not a fan of the new left/right arrows. The little gaps in the old version are really helpful for locating the ar...

Muirium wrote: ↑Another thing USB C can do (so I've heard) handle resolutions all the way up to 5k Retina!

Are you sure?

5K requires something like 40Gbps of bandwidth. As far as I know, USB Type-C is only 10Gbps.

if they do a docking station that can drive 2 1440p monitors has 4 USB ports and gigabit Ethernet all will be forgiven. Presumably their 27" display will be updated to use USB Type-C. It has three USB ports, FireWire 800, Gigabit Ethernet, a mini display port allowing you to daisy-chain a second 27...