Plus, the full size keyboard is easier and more comfortable to use, even for touch-typists.
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It sports a sturdy aluminum shell, built-in wi-fi and a full-size keyboard, and it weighs just three pounds.
Moreover, its 13.3-inch widescreen display and full-size keyboard means you won't notice you're using an ultra-light laptop until you fold it up.
Increasingly we get our mail messages on our mobile devices without the time, attention or full-size keyboard to make a complete response.
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The display on offer has an average 1366 x 768 resolution, but the larger screen real estate means users get a full size keyboard.
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Navigation and interaction are easy with the precision on-board pen, full-size keyboard and new five button clickpad that boasts 20 percent more surface area than traditional ThinkPad clickpads.
First, because it looks smaller and second is because when I type on it I find myself making more mistakes than I usually make with a full-size keyboard.
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Ideal for creating and enjoying content on the go, the Series 5 550P features a full-size keyboard with isolated numeric and direction keys and an improved touchpad with separated left and right clicks.
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We didn't know our smartphones weren't quite smart enough to need a guide to the interwebs, but the Foleo syncs to your mobile device, providing a full size keyboard and larger display for editing documents and triaging email (among other things).
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The full-size keyboard built right into the cover makes work easy, the very smart kickstand makes watching a movie or Skyping a friend a delight, the less than a pound-and-a-half weight makes a great alternative to a laptop, and the many other features make it fun for work and play.
Its compact footprint features a full size QWERTY keyboard accompanied by built-in speakers, a microphone, and two USB ports for charging multiple devices simultaneously.
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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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Despite its small size, this notebook has a keyboard with large keys that make typing more comfortable.
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The size and look of the virtual keyboard on the glass, for example, seems to be a standard.
Microsoft reduced the footprint for the new keyboard by reducing the size of these keys and rearranging them.
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Tablets are cool, sure, but they have their limitations: lack of keyboard, small screen size, lack of under-the-hood power, lack of serious business applications.
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Some may qualify by somehow fitting a keyboard into a device this size, though that may be hard.
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The slim size still houses a full-sized keyboard, so customers can comfortably create and edit documents and spreadsheets.
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When the keyboard is enabled, the screen size is cut almost in half, a huge hindrance in itself.
's Vaio was notable for its magnesium alloy case, which makes it feel tough even if the keyboard was designed for child-size hands.
Something that size, with a hardware if small qwerty keyboard, plus connectors to allow adding a full scale monitor, mouse and keyboard, would actually do me nicely.
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Other than that, we just wish the final keyboard dock will somehow get a slight weight reduction: for the screen size, 1.88 pounds isn't too bad for the tablet alone, but together with the heavy keyboard, the Q702 could become a nightmare for regular travelers.
The WP onscreen keyboard also comes to life at this size, turning what was already one of the best typing experiences around into something even more special.
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As you see in our photo gallery, the tablet is roughly the same size and thickness of a netbook when combined with the keyboard dock, and we never felt like the slate was about to tumble out of its cradle.
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The Compaq IPaq I-A1 is a cute little beige number with a wireless keyboard and a tiltable color LCD screen about the size of a makeup mirror.
Customers can look up words, highlight passages, adjust the font size and style or search by typing on the responsive on-screen keyboard that appears only when a customer needs it.
With a multi-touch display - no keyboard or mouse here -- housed in what looks in size and shape like a chic coffee table, the company hope that the table-style computer will change the face of computing at the office and in the home over the next decade.
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