As you can see, the built-in keyboard on my laptop has some problems. It intermittently loses the ability to type spaces, the arrow and ‘tab’ keys occasionally shut off, and (most important for an inaccurate typer like me) the ‘delete’ key seldom works.
Rather than turn my laptop over to a repair crew for a week, I bought a tiny external bluetooth keyboard. It has the additional advantage of not leaving burnmarks on my knees when I work for an extended time on a couch — but, the jury’s still out about how it will affect my tendonitis.
I’ll probably replace the built-in keyboard myself just as soon as I can convince someone to sell me one. Having opened the case on my laptop several times in the last few weeks (and viewed the horrors inside) I feel like an expert.
Meanwhile, my daybag gets heavier and heavier with all the gadgets I’m accumulating. I’m worried that the shopping culture here has infected me.