228: ‘Smallen Up the Bezels’ With Jason Snell
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
3.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2018
⏱️ 156 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, how are you? |
| 0:02.6 | Pretty good. I'm just failing to fight the temptation to ask you a follow-up question about mechanical keyboards right now. |
| 0:10.7 | Do it. We'll lose the whole show. Did you try a keyboard that like some modern mechanical keyboard as a potential replacement for your Apple extended? |
| 0:21.2 | No, not yet. |
| 0:23.4 | Oh, sort of. I should take that back. I got I'm nowhere near as in deep with you. I actually I should take this all back. I have tried several. I should have said |
| 0:35.1 | We're seriously going to lose the whole show here. Yeah, I have a DOS keyboard |
| 0:38.9 | That that's spelled DAS like you know like a DOS 3.3 keyboard. That would be something else. DOS is in like DOS boot the fantastic submarine movie |
| 0:48.6 | I bought several years ago and I forget what kind of switches that one has |
| 0:56.9 | But I have since given that one to my son Jonas and he loves it and it is apparently a pretty decent gaming keyboard. I |
| 1:06.1 | Never really liked it. It was too clicky. Yeah, and then based on some recent back and forth with you |
| 1:13.7 | based on your |
| 1:16.6 | I don't know if you considered portable you can say but it's your iPad as a writing setup you have right sure the Matthias |
| 1:24.7 | Portable something something. Yeah, it's like a Bluetooth. They have a Bluetooth |
| 1:29.8 | keyboard that's got their key switches which are not the same and and people give me such grief for it because it does feel very old |
| 1:36.6 | Apple design school. It's a big kind of puffy |
| 1:40.0 | Silver plastic keyboard, but it's very hard to find a good |
| 1:44.4 | Bluetooth |
| 1:45.8 | Mechanical keyboard. They're almost just USB. It is puffy puffy is a good way to describe it |
| 1:50.6 | I'm gonna put this in the |
| 1:55.2 | It's just a big thing of plastic like right now. Now it would be kind of a metal kind of fringed thing |
| 2:00.3 | But instead it's just like a big piece of plastic and with a keyboard in it and I don't use that |
| 2:06.6 | Well, it doesn't even make sense for me to use it with any of my Macs because when I'm not gonna use a separate keyboard with a MacBook |
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