Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Why is that wireless switch the size of a frickin pinhead?

Open letter to those laptop design engineers that keep squeezing the wireless switch into a smaller and smaller footprint on these laptop cases:

For the love of God, stop. You are destroying people's fragile grip on sanity by making it practically impossible to turn on the computer's wireless radio. Not everyone has 20/20, nimble little fingers with nails that come to a needle point, or the patience of a Fransiscan monk. People need to be able to find the bloody switch and turn the thing on, because they're trying to look up their flight information and the taxi to the airport is out front honking, or the baby is puking blue and it's 70 miles to the urgent care clinic, or the file on how to conceal your scent with puma urine is stored somewhere on your Hummer's NAS volume and the cat is already climbing the tree below you and your grip on that shaky branch with your other hand is none too secure, so even if you can find the wireless toggle you're going to have to operate it with your nose, tongue or front tooth.

Please, get a grip and help us out here, you design engineers. Save real estate by making the keyboard smaller or something. Put the wireless switch where we can find it, properly sized for human fingers. Preferably retired people's fingers. Suffering from Parkinson's and ongoing dementia and an overactive bladder. Just think it over please.

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