You curve too?

25 Aug 2006

To go with my work MacBook I got an iCurve stand. Given that at work I have it plugged into another monitor and want to use my ergo keyboard/trackball, having the MacBook raised is good. I’d have thought the keyboard floating in the way might be weird, but on the whole the system is quite usable. Mostly the laptop screen has a RDP connection to an XP box on it – alas as much as I like my MacBook I can’t forsake the Windows world altogether :)

One thing I guess I’m aware off is how much I’d like some form of dock connector for the MacBook – perhaps not a full doc you sit the thing in, but some from of all in one cable connector that reduces the number of cables I have sticking out of my MacBook into a breakout box. I currently have five cables there – power/video/ethernet/USB (for keyboard/mouse) and speakers.

I’m am amused to note that Iver appears desperate to appear in the picture in the background – appropriate as that’s what the MacBook is named :)

Oh (no, I will shut up in a moment, honest) the other thing that amuses me is my mental mapping on keyboards. Occasionally when I go to work on the laptop screen I will actually start using the laptop keyboard :) Although the main screen there and the laptop are just one big desktop, my brain just occasionally flips and maps one keyboard to one display. Okay, perhaps it’s not that amusing, but it’s early and stuff…