Hey just so you know, the MSI Wind's keyboard has the rite shift key in the correct place above the up arrow key. Nick Stockton ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 3:28 PM Subject: Re: Asus EEE PC > Hi. I have the Asus EEE PC1000HA which has a ten inch screen. The keyboard > is excellent for my big fingers. It's about 95 percent of full size. The > only drawback to the keyboard on these models is the right-shift and up > arrow keys are in such a position that unless you reach further out with > your right pinky, you may press up arrow instead of right shift. > Considering there are work-arounds for such a small annoyance, I ended up > with this one. I went through about 3 netbooks before settling on this > one. They all have about the same strengths and weaknesses in terms of > specifications, speed, portability and features. So what it comes down to > for me is the keyboard. In fact, I am typing on it right now as I write > this message. I'll do a spell check now. > > OK, so it stopped on the word considering, oops, but that was a personal > typo, not a keyboard typo. > > Hope this helps. > > Cheryl Homiak wrote the following on 2/14/2009 2:29 PM: >> >> Hi all. >> >> I'm looking at Asus EEE Pcs and had a question for which I haven't found >> an answer. I know there are different models but what I'm concerned about >> is: what kind of keyboard does it have if it's so small or does it come >> with a keyboard we can use? For instance, my cell phone has a qwerty >> keyboard that I can use but is painfully slow for me to type on since >> I've never gotten good at the thumbs trick so I'm concerned as to whether >> I'd manage ok with an eee pc. I imagine if you get one with bluetooth it >> wouldn't matter because you could use a separate keyboard but of course >> that immediately means carryint around one more thing. I didn't really >> find anything about how one keys in though I did see something about an >> onscreen keyboard which I'm assuming wouldn't be very accessible for us >> out of the box. >> >> > > > -- > Raul A. Gallegos -- http://www.asmodean.net > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > signature database 3846 (20090211) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > >