Argh. Can you show up anyway? Because they will need your help, if there's not much parking. Although--is there handicapped parking nearby they could use? I've found that a real life-saver with my parents.

I think they may actually be there by now...

Put a keyboard on a tablet, and I don't have a problem creating content on it

Tim has the same Asus Transformer that you have, and he doesn't like the keyboard as much as he thought he would. He says he keeps hitting the trackpad with his thumb (or another finger, I disremember) and so that makes the cursor jump and whatever he's typing gets screwed up.

It seems to me it would just be an issue of getting used to it, but if he doesn't like it, he doesn't like it. But now he wants a laptop (or maybe another desktop), because of the typing issue.

One of these days I gotta replace the MacBook Pro (which is now almost four years old) with a new 13" MacBook Pro Retina.

I just bought a new Mac Mini to replace my 5yo MacBook Pro. I didn't tote it around enough to justify buying another laptop. It mostly just sat on my desk plugged into an external monitor anyway. I do use a Magic Trackpad with the mini, though.

your sister is a twit.

[Long rant about my sister deleted.] I will just say, she is the oldest, 10 years older than me, and my godmother. She thinks she has every right to tell me what to do and gets furious when I criticize her or correct her. And yet she does not understand why we are not closer.

Oy, Sue.

Steph, just tell him to turn the trackpad off--I don't have mine in front of me, but one of the function keys will do it. I keep it off, since I'd rather navigate with the screen than the trackpad.

the keyboard is a separate piece I have to carry around and keep track of.

Why? If I carry the keyboard around, I carry it attached to the tablet, and that's one piece. if it's a separate piece that's because it's at home.

Man, LiveMeeting is a bear, and whoever thought there was a straightforward way to be able to present a slide show so we see the slides and you see the notes....well, that seems to work 10% of the time, tops.

Steph, just tell him to turn the trackpad off--

Oh, I didn't even think of that. He'd rather navigate with the screen, too.

I'm going to have to write it on my hand so I remember to tell him in 6 hours.

The only problem I've ever had with trackpads is they can be extra sensitve when new, or vary between machines. But after that they're fine.

Steph, just tell him to turn the trackpad off--I don't have mine in front of me, but one of the function keys will do it. I keep it off, since I'd rather navigate with the screen than the trackpad.

Navigate with the screen? What does that even mean?

if it's a separate piece that's because it's at home.

And that's when I lose it.

I wish I could turn off the trackpad/nib thing on my work Dell laptop. I keep hitting something accidentally that jumps my cursor away from where I want to be, and I can't figure out how to make it not do that. It's been a couple years; I don't think I'm going to "get used to it".

I like trackpads, because the first thing I do with them is turn off "tap to click" and turn the responsiveness down in general.