[Brad Adrian]

I hadn't really thought about all the many, many, many design decisions that go into something like a keyboard until the other day when I was reading a review and technical specifications for an external Bluetooth keyboard. It talked about key size, key spacing and layout, key travel distance, "travel to peak" distance, peak force, and on and on.

There clearly IS a lot more to designing the details of a keyboard, something we all take for granted every day. I'm just glad that there are engineers out there who "get" all of that, because all I know is whether or not a keyboard feels right.

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BTW, am I the only person out there who CAN'T easily switch back and forth between my notebook's built-in keyboard and an external keyboard (like you would use with a docking station)? My muscle memory must be bad, because I end up making too many typos if I move between two different keyboards; that's why I usually don't use docking stations that require an external one.