To be clear, the buttons here are still closer together than on your typical laptop keyboard, and the flimsy panel flexes under the stress of more furious typing.
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The result is two products in one, providing the full functionality of an ultraportable laptop with keyboard plus the convenience of a tablet.
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That's where Matias's wireless Laptop Pro keyboard for Mac comes in. (The company makes a wired version for PC, too.) Its switch technology confers the tactile response of a traditional mechanical keyboard, but sounds no louder than the office standard issue.
Would you believe that Acer is working on a frameless laptop with touchscreen keyboard?
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With a laptop-style keyboard and well-spaced keys for its size, the Belkin Portable Keyboard Case for iPad mini helps reduce typing mistakes common on tablets.
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That was until a cameraman for the event began shooting from behind the actors to reveal that they were waving their hands in front of a regular, old laptop with a keyboard.
According to Vizio reps, the engineers were concerned that a backlit keyboard would increase the thickness of the laptop, and most backlit keyboard suffer from unsightly light bleed anyway.
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An optional Keyboard Dock gives the Razer Edge the laptop experience with a traditional keyboard and mouse, supporting a removable 40 Wh battery, so gamers can play their favorite keyboard and mouse reliant PC titles.
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He throws out an easy freestyle rhyme and then sits down with a keyboard and laptop and slips into a trance.
While he was up there, Mr. Taylor flashed a reference device -- a laptop hybrid with the keyboard and touchpad built into the carrying case.
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Keep in mind that we've already seen this Frame Zero concept pictured above from Fujitsu and Acer's arch-rival ASUS has been showing off its dual-display laptop prototype with touchscreen keyboard for months.
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The LePad (apologies for repeating the name, we just love saying it in a French accent) will then be greeted in January by its "hybrid option" -- a separate case containing a keyboard and laptop guts.
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The Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard K750 for Mac comes with advanced 2.4 GHz wireless connectivity to virtually eliminate delays or dropouts, and a plug-and-forget Unifying receiver that is so small it stays in your laptop, so your keyboard is always ready to use.
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The other thing that keeps this from being a full laptop replacement is that the keyboard is not rigidly attached.
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The eventual product was called the Razer Blade, a high-end gaming laptop that featured a dynamic keyboard with OLED keys.
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Through much of this drama, Mr Mehta, it seems, is just sitting there, tapping it all straight on to the keyboard of his laptop.
Lastly, there's a capacitive sensor underneath the keyboard, allowing the laptop's touchpad to be disabled automatically while you're typing. (Naturally, this works best if the trackpad is also made by Synaptics.) The company is also developing a feature in which the space bar could be a touch sensor in and of itself, with support for functions like autocomplete.
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Still, it will be light and thin by laptop standards, even with its optional keyboard cover.
Neither keyboard compares to a traditional laptop in terms of accuracy, ease of use, and comfort but they are close enough to be functional.
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On the bottom side, the notebook is sealed in such a way that you can't easily get at the battery, SSD or RAM. (This is pretty typical for Ultrabooks.) That bottom surface is also where you'll find the speaker strip, which is somewhat unusual: laptop speakers are usually located in the keyboard area or around the sides.
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Some shoulder-strained road warriors might replace their heavy laptop with a PDA-phone, collapsible keyboard and micro-projector.
Acer's Iconia, a touch-screen laptop with two displays where one replaces a keyboard, won the top honors.
Microsoft even has its own line of Surface tablets that blur the line between PC and laptop thanks to a clever snap-on keyboard cover.
So this laptop can take a cup of coffee on the keyboard and keep going?
The initiative inspired several advances in laptop technology, in terms of features (flash memory instead of a spinning hard-drive), design (a laptop-to-tablet form and a waterproof keyboard) and price reductions.
The twist: an optional keyboard that transforms the tablet computer into a laptop.
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Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) -- A laptop with two touch-screens in lieu of a keyboard, tablets running an unfinished version of Google's Android, 3-D TV sets that don't require glasses.
You could also have a 57 customized just like a 62, with electronics options that would allow a laptop hookup to a flat plasma screen, a wireless keyboard and mobile Internet access.
In addition, the laptop offers two USB 3.0 ports, a chiclet keyboard with a backlit option, and quick launch keys.
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The Microsoft Surface is a tablet with a keyboard touch cover meant to live somewhere between a laptop and a tablet.
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