I haven’t had the slightest trouble with carpal tunnel or RSI since I switched to laptops. Before then, it was always hovering around.
I can see a couple possible explanations for this (hardly exhaustive, obviously)
1) greater variety in how I am oriented with the device
2) very low action on the keys. I could tap them very lightly, and it’d take.
3) changes in my life circumstances—I’d just gotten married and started grad school, so maybe that relaxed me more. On the other hand, if that were it you’d think having a child would reverse the effect.
I’m not terribly keen on spending 40 minutes standing and meditating every day.
By contrast, I’ve found that laptops make my RSI much worse. In particular, laptops usually run pretty warm and typing on a warm or hot keyboard gets painful very quickly. My results are controlled in that using an external Thinkpad keyboard is far more comfortable than using the identical built-in keyboard on my Thinkpad.
I haven’t had the slightest trouble with carpal tunnel or RSI since I switched to laptops. Before then, it was always hovering around.
I can see a couple possible explanations for this (hardly exhaustive, obviously)
1) greater variety in how I am oriented with the device
2) very low action on the keys. I could tap them very lightly, and it’d take.
3) changes in my life circumstances—I’d just gotten married and started grad school, so maybe that relaxed me more. On the other hand, if that were it you’d think having a child would reverse the effect.
I’m not terribly keen on spending 40 minutes standing and meditating every day.
If you’ve got a solution (and it sounds like you do), then there’s no need to try either of the things I recommend.
By contrast, I’ve found that laptops make my RSI much worse. In particular, laptops usually run pretty warm and typing on a warm or hot keyboard gets painful very quickly. My results are controlled in that using an external Thinkpad keyboard is far more comfortable than using the identical built-in keyboard on my Thinkpad.
Interesting. The laptops I’ve used all get hot at the bottom left rear corner, near the power supply, not where my hands touch them.