You should try hooking up an external keyboard for those longer sessions. I used to get problems with my wrists hurting after a while of typing on my laptop so I made my own external setup with keyboard, mouse, and monitor and now I'm much more comfortable during long periods of use. Plus, I'm on a white macbook and the hand gunk tends to build up less now. On Jan 19, 2008 12:46 PM, Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
I've been writing more than my share of "papers", etc in the past month. On my IBM Thinkpad T42.
Recently I have noticed that both heels of my outer palms have become uncomfortably irritated -- the result I am sure of having them on the keyboard's palm rests for 10 hours at a time.
The solution: I am trying to lift my wrists up so that only my fingers touch the keyboard. And I will be taking a break at the Social Network conference, this Tuesday thru Sunday.
But I am wondering if this is a new phenomenon, or others on this list have experienced it. I do like Thinkpads for reliability and keyboard feel, but I notice that their palm rests are a bit rough.
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