Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/31

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Subject: [Leica] New MacBook Air advice needed
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 21:58:30 -0800
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Laptop is notoriously bad for promoting bad postures leading to all sort of
back and neck problems. May be consider an iMac for better ergonomic. It's
not portable, but would be better for your long term health.


On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> I am having vision and neck problems so I raised my laptop up with a raiser
> thing I got in the apple store. I'm not using the apple keypad with numeric
> keyboard under it. Its dark. No more back lit. so I have to find some LED
> thing which I know they have which plug into the usb port for power I think
> I've seen them. So that's my first thing I do this  year. Light my
> keyboard.
> I gotta say as nice as the keyboard is on my macbook pro the separate
> keyboard makes a little work station which is a lot nicer to type with. I
> watch the screen here fill up with words I don't even know how they got
> there. Also its nice looking UP at your screen. You don't end up with
> hunched shoulders.
> But I can barley see. And wont get my new glasses for almost a week. I hope
> they work.
>
>
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>
>
> > From: Brian Keith Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 16:08:11 -0800
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] New MacBook Air advice needed
> >
> > One major drawback. Unlike the first-generation MacBook Air, the new ones
> do
> > not have a backlit keyboard. This sucks, but it isn't quite enough to
> make me
> > buy a Dell.
> >
> >
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In reply to: Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] New MacBook Air advice needed)
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