Comment by greatsuccess | Hacker News Reader

Comment by greatsuccess | Hacker News Reader

I don't need a guide to leaving the best computer currently made. If I had to use a PC I don't know if I would bother with computers at all except for my job. PC laptops have the reputation they deserve and I think they not only tarnished personal/mobile computing as a general concept (only to be rescued by Apple), PC laptops should be the first category of the PC family to die out completely and save people the misery and disillusionment that when you buy such a thing, that you think you actually bought something.

And Im not even saying Windows laptops, this is a commodity hardware issue combined with fantastically disappointing software (Windows or Ubuntu), but I wouldn't want one running OS X either.

It's time for the PC industry to take out its own trash.

The OEMs have been quite terrible for a long time. Even Lenovo is a barely-trustworthy brand to me anymore -- and it's the only brand and they don't currently have anything in their product lineup that I'd be happy to use. Dell and HP have become especially crap. Toshiba, which used to be crap is now somehow the better mass-market OEM out there. I wouldn't spend my own money on anything from Asus; every single Asus product I've ever come across has failed in under 3 years.

What I really want is for Apple to make an iPad that will let me use a USB keyboard. Safari and SSH are all I need.

There are many nice bluetooth keyboards that work fine with iPads.

I use a Realforce 87U as my primary keyboard and my secondary keyboards all have Cherry MX Red or Blue switches. I have purchased custom-manufactured aluminum cases for my KBC Pokers. I also hate Alps switches. It's almost a guarantee that there is nothing on the market that I will find suitable for getting real work done. There's the KBTalking Pro, but it's fullsize and not good for travel. The Neo 87 has poor build quality and the wireless barely works. It'd have to be at least a TKL but a 60% or HHKB would be better.

The best I've seen is a bluetooth mod that's far too battery-hungry for prime-time. I want something with a wire. Bluetooth keyboard pairing and the typically-horrendous bluetooth stacks border on nightmarish.

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