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TORONTO, November 14, 2007 – Matias today unveiled its Matias Folding Keyboard, a full-size USB keyboard that folds down to half size for travel. It released its first hardware product in 2000 (the futuristic Half Keyboard), the first in a string of innovative keyboard designs. Originally the batteries were what caught my attention after all the trouble I’d had buying replacements for my Thinkpad, but when I saw the mechanical keyboard I knew I had to have one. The original battery’s charge is down to around 90 minutes, and while it’s swappable, working new batteries in this form factor simply cannot be purchased for any amount of money. Update (2023): While the Reform is a great machine overall, my use cases are extremely idiosyncratic in that I need to use EXWM as my window manager for accessibility reasons. The CPU then stores pieces of data it will need to access, often in a cache, and maintains certain special instructions in the register.

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