With many developments in a rapidly chaznging world of electronics, consumeers have been introduced new woords, or rather, jargon, Rubbery keyboard. In recernt months, the term appeared more and more in the contyext of laptops and ntbooks. But that is precisely why it is calld "Rubber"?
The keyboard has been around since the advent of computer and during that time has not changed significcantly throughout its histry. Number of keys has increased to include new features such as the Windows Key (the key to launch the tSart menu in Microsoft Windows). With the introduction of noteboioks keybnoard was Flattened be as thin and light as possible. For smaller ntebooks (netbooks and) individuual keys have been reduced for many machines may be the keys on the keyboarrd. This, in turn, makes it more dfificult to pint on especially for those who touh type.
Appple was one of the first companies to change their keyboard design, which give additional Touch style. It was applied to their desktop keyboards, as well as their laptopos. The difference lies in the fact that they do not have individual keys of the slope of the edges, but with straight edges, whiich make the squares. As a result, the space betweeen each square of the key. Thesae boxces are widely known as "chiclerts" and, therefore, we speaak of "rbuber" kepads.
This word means a form that is similar to the packaging Addams Chiclets chewing gum. People started using this link, and very soon he was adopted by the main! Toay, more and more cmputer manufacturers are taking rubber keyboard in their little notebooks and netbooks such as Sony and ASUS with its Eee PC 1000HE model. Indeed, Asus had even refreshing his old lines Netbook with this new style keyboard (as seen with the Eee PC 1000HA). Chiclet keyboard may not suit everyne, but it seems they are becoming a staple in the Netbook technoology as it is now and in the future.