::scr A PC user speaks ...

[David Cantrell]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 08:53:37AM -0800, celia romaniuk wrote:

> One last thing. Dell laptops with both nipples and trackpads. I know
> people will disagree with me but I think it's silly design. People tend to
> have a preference and will only use one of the two, so why not just build
> two different models, one with trackpad and one with  nipple, and let the
> user decide?

Cos that means two sets of moulds, two sets of emissions testing etc.  It
would make both machines more expensive to manufacture, and margins are
very tight indeed.  And it means you have to stock two sets of spare parts,
instead of just having one keyboard/trackpad/nipple unit.

>From an RSI PoV it might be a good thing, as users can alternate between
them.  Whether any users do that is another matter of course :-)

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