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Notebooks - a special report

Notebook design: ten things we hate Camera icon

Sandra Vogel ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 14 Nov 2008 10:14 GMT

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Poor keyboard quality
A notebook with a bad keyboard is nigh-on unusable (unless you're a devotee of speech-recognition software). With keyboards, we always look for good build quality, minimal flex, reasonable depth of key travel and a nice 'click' when keys are pressed. Any keyboard that has too much flex or gives too little feedback is likely to get a big thumbs-down from us (as it were).

 

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