[pmontra]

If I'll ever use a desktop again I also want an external touchpad and I want to place it in front of the keyboard like on a laptop. But you wrote trackpad. It's it the one with the ball? Probably not because you also wrote about multitouch. So, which trackpad do you use?

[layer8]

Touchpad and trackpad are synonyms. Trackpad is the older term.

[bschwindHN]

I'm a 100% trackpad user as well, and I also got into mechanical keyboards so my setups always look like this now:

https://imgur.com/a/pmRO9r9

That one is an older magic trackpad, if it ever dies I'll upgrade to the newer one.

[pmontra]

What's the two keyboards layout for? At first I suspected that they are two different keyboards, let's say US and some national layout, but they are both US. Maybe the black one is not connected and it's there only for the picture?

Anyway, that's the keyboard/touchpad layout I would use too. The only difference is that I like touchpads with physical buttons. Three of them because I use Linux and pasting text with the middle button is great.

[bschwindHN]

Ah yeah, the extra keyboard was just there for the photo. I designed the PCB so I'm kinda proud of it :)

I agree that physical buttons are nice. The older magic trackpads actually are physical buttons, but they're on the underside of the trackpad, so the disadvantage there is you don't feel the button on the surface.