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New Lenovo laptop includes keyboard "noise suppression"
Posted: 25 Feb 2011, 01:47
by webwit
http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/2490 ... ssion.aspx
The jackhammer typist is the scourge of the calm, blissful office environment and conference call. Enter Lenovo's new 2011 Thinkpad business laptops, which include "noise suppression" technology.
Most manufacturers phased out overly "clicky" keyboards many years ago, but there are still some brands that make more racket than others. If you type with the force of a jackhammer, you'll know it can drown out voices on a conference call, or at the very least annoy the person sitting next to you.
Which is why today's announcement of six new Lenovo ThinkPad businesss laptops (in the T, W and L Series) is so interesting. Buried in the announcement is a mention of "noise suppression technology". How quiet? Lenovo doesn't seem to be putting any specific claims behind this, other than saying it will help "eliminate distracting clicking".
Posted: 25 Feb 2011, 02:04
by microsoft windows
I wonder how this "noise supression" technology will work. It sounds like an interesting concept.
Posted: 25 Feb 2011, 10:39
by daedalus
Probably some dampeners around the edge of the scissor switch.
Posted: 25 Feb 2011, 10:59
by sixty
Foam?
Posted: 25 Feb 2011, 23:15
by microsoft windows
What keyboard is that pictured?
Posted: 25 Feb 2011, 23:16
by sixty
microsoft windows wrote:What keyboard is that pictured?
http://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=165
Posted: 25 Feb 2011, 23:20
by microsoft windows
That's a neat keyboard. It's kind of funny how it's got Windows keys.
Posted: 13 Dec 2014, 12:15
by chzel
Muirium, would you mind??
Bloody spammers..Taken from
here
Posted: 13 Dec 2014, 12:28
by 002
They're getting clever! I'll sort this one out -- thanks.
Posted: 13 Dec 2014, 12:34
by Laser
Reminds me of Philip's K. Dick story - "Second variety".
Next improvement is probably a "necrothread revival avoidance algorithm" ...
Posted: 13 Dec 2014, 12:39
by Muirium
Heh, I wasn't quick enough to see this one. Good work!
Something tells me these things are done by hand by some poor bastard in the third world, doing the same thing on forums every hour of the working day. If it was automated, we'd be deluged.
Posted: 13 Dec 2014, 12:45
by 7bit
A real innovation would be a protable computer with model F keyboard!
Posted: 13 Dec 2014, 12:46
by 002
Third world indeed...the last few of these have been from Pakistan.
This was the last guy.
Posted: 13 Dec 2014, 13:13
by gogusrl
They're good for something, now I know there's a full size ML keyboard.