Touch Typing

I just got my aspire one yesterday and got a chance to pay with it. My biggest hesitation about buying this computer was whether or not the keyboard is actually large enough to type on.

You can easily touch type on the aspire one.

Its tight, but not uncomfortable and if anyone out there was turned off by a 85% keyboard they should not be concerned. I have stubby, sausage fingers and I was able to pull off 60 wpm (which is my normal).

My only concern is that the space bar sits lower than the touchpad making it take more effort than normal to push it down. But the problem is easily adjusted for. I also found it interesting that the @ and the " are switched.

 

Did you sort out your keyboard mapping?

 

I've gotta say that I'm quite impressed with how well the keyboard is for touch typing. Not just the size of the keys, but they all feel very responsive to me. Can't say I've had your problem with the @ and " keys; all work the way they should for me.

 

Quite a few folk had keyboard mapping issues " and @.
The forum seems to be quieter on those issues now.

 

I can touch type pretty well w/ my AAO, however I have to turn the track pad off when typing anything too long as I always bump it and end up typing in the wrong place w/ the trackpad on.

 

For all those who missed it, the F7 key toggles touch pad availability.

 

I can type pretty easily on it however i find it a lot easier to just use my index and middle fingers and also to sort of elevate my fingers more than I would on a normal keyboard. All in all it's fine and took me like 5 minutes tops to get used to it

 

Yes I missed it - and accidentally touching the pad while typeing as a real pain.
Thanks to Sid

 

Ha ha, I remembered it after learning a valuable lesson.......... I accidentally turned it off for five minutes, this act left me thinking I had broken my One

 

The mixed up keys was a result of the UK versus US keyboard bug. The fix posted on this forum works perfectly, as I imagine the patch from Acer also fixed.