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Landscape vs Portrait
08-29-2016, 01:57 PM
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Landscape vs Portrait
My grandfather used an HP 15c and I've gotten to know it by using the manual and such. It was surely a fine calculator and a really great size, but I can't get over the landscape design.

So perhaps I'm using it wrong?

I find that often my right thumb is busy pressing numbers and decimal points while my left thumb sits idle.

Then I use the shift keys and various functions on the left side while my right thumb sits idle. I can reach all the way across with either but it is awkward and unnatural (e.g., pi^2 requires four button presses, the first pair is okay with left thumb right thumb, but then the second requires just left thumb or right thumb crossing left thumb).

I find that with portrait mode, everything is centered and I use both thumbs quicker and more efficiently. I can do a shift with left thumb and hit anything on the keyboard with the right. I can enter digits with both thumbs quite quickly.

So what is the appeal of landscape? Is there some trick I'm not doing? Is it just something you get used to?
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Landscape vs Portrait - Logan - 08-29-2016 01:57 PM
RE: Landscape vs Portrait - toml_12953 - 08-29-2016, 02:22 PM
RE: Landscape vs Portrait - Marcio - 08-29-2016, 02:45 PM
RE: Landscape vs Portrait - Logan - 08-29-2016, 02:52 PM
RE: Landscape vs Portrait - Marcio - 08-29-2016, 04:29 PM
RE: Landscape vs Portrait - Sylvain Cote - 08-29-2016, 03:06 PM
RE: Landscape vs Portrait - damaltor - 08-29-2016, 04:00 PM
RE: Landscape vs Portrait - Ángel Martin - 08-29-2016, 06:30 PM
RE: Landscape vs Portrait - Logan - 08-29-2016, 04:41 PM
RE: Landscape vs Portrait - emece67 - 08-30-2016, 12:30 AM
RE: Landscape vs Portrait - Logan - 08-31-2016, 06:04 PM
RE: Landscape vs Portrait - Nick - 08-31-2016, 08:32 PM
RE: Landscape vs Portrait - damaltor - 09-01-2016, 08:36 AM
RE: Landscape vs Portrait - Nick - 08-29-2016, 07:16 PM
RE: Landscape vs Portrait - Thomas Radtke - 08-30-2016, 02:30 PM
RE: Landscape vs Portrait - Thomas Radtke - 09-02-2016, 05:52 AM
RE: Landscape vs Portrait - Tugdual - 09-02-2016, 06:02 AM
RE: Landscape vs Portrait - Logan - 09-02-2016, 08:09 PM
RE: Landscape vs Portrait - emece67 - 09-02-2016, 09:25 PM



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