RIP Typewriters - What's your dream writing tool? What do you use now?

A trending topic on Twitter today is RIP Typewriters (See top story here).  Apparently the last manufacturer outside of China to make Typewriters has closed it's doors.  I am 35 years old so I came in on the cusp of the takeover of typewriters by word processors.  I went to high school in a very small town so we only had a handful of computers (Apple IIe, remember those?) and most of our typing classes still took place on a typewriter.  I actually owned a typewriter at one time, a hybrid kind of thing where it stored one line of text before it printed it so you could correct your errors.  It also had a correction ribbon so you could go back and fix mistakes.  Of course this thing went the way of the Dodo once I got my first computer.

There is something to be said for typewriters though.  The back lit screen of a computer monitor gives me a headache after a while and editing on a hard copy is so much easier than on screen (and never mind the mess that white out makes on your monitor ☺).  It doesn't matter how many times I read something digitally I tend to find myself skimming through it.  When I print it out I am able to focus on what I'm reading.  The problem is I never have ink for my printer so I never get to print and a part of me thinks it's such a waste of paper.  The other issue is that edits done on hard copy still have to be changed to digital.

So will I miss typewriters HELL NO but there has to be something better out there for writing than a computer for word processing, if there is please tell me what it is!

Some of my loyal followers know that I am not a gadget tech guy, I use what works and is cheap and effective.  I do not own a single Apple product, I text tweet from my DumbPhone™, my Internet computer is a small Netbook that was free with coupons my wife got, my other computer, which I affectionately call my Dinosaur, is twelve years old and will no longer function on-line.  I have a Kobo E-Reader which I love but is also the least techie of all of them.  While I'm at it, I only own a Wii, my biggest TV is a 32" LCD I have no HD Channels on my cable, our other TV is an old fashioned CRT type.  We don't have a blue-ray player or a PVR.  I can't think of any other techie things that other people "can't live without" that we don't have.  We just don't need them.  So what do I like?  I like things that are simple and do the job and not a whole lot more.

So where am I going with this?  I would like to describe my perfect word processor:

No Back lit Screen -The best reading screen I have seen is the Kobo
Full ergonomic Keyboard including number pad -Love that number pad
Ability to Use the Screen like a tablet -with a stylis to make hand written corrections and notes
Wireless connectivity to a Network, but only for transferring documents or printing, no Internet to distract you.
Best Friggin' Dictionary, Thesaurus available to man!

Does this thing exist?  If so let me know and I will buy one!

I WOULD ALSO LIKE SOME FEEDBACK ON WORD PROCESSING PROGRAMS

What do you use and why?
What platform do you use and why?
What would your perfect platform/program look like?

You can answer these questions in the comments and if you wish or take the poll.

Thanks for Reading

D. Ryan Leask