Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen

Re:Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a ... by lloeki on Saturday June 09, 2018 @05:19AM (#17272200)

> The keyboard is aligned with the center of the screen and the space bar is almost there too. Joy!

Oh the keypad hell, it's been such a RSI inducer on my back for years. What nonsense is this to put a keypad on the right side of keyboards which results, being right handed, in either the mouse being too far right or the keyboard being off center.

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Re:Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a ... by Tijdreiziger on Saturday June 09, 2018 @07:07AM (#17272447)

A good design centers the touchpad on the alphanumeric part of the keyboard, example: http://xahlee.info/kbd/i/Dell_Inspiron_laptop_keyboard_2014-...

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Re:Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a ... by pmontra on Sunday June 10, 2018 @01:50AM (#17276776)

This is all laptops do, included mine, so we can shift the laptop to the right. IMHO a better design would ditch the number pad and sell a USB/Bluetooth one to who wants it.

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Re:Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a ... by jeswin on Saturday June 09, 2018 @05:48AM (#17272259)

I keep the mouse below the external keyboard (instead of to the right), and it has worked out really well for me. It may not work well with laptops though, since the trackpad adds to the distance the hand must travel.

But I still wanna put it out there for all the external keyboard users.

Illustration: https://twitter.com/jeswin/status/680343382783213568

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