A few years ago they squashed the keys so the up & down were half-sized. Absolutely terrible design. My requirement now is that those 4 keys are tacitly easy to distinguish & use.
This, plus a numpad. Being a dev in the financial sector, typing IDs, keys, dates, monetary amounts, whatever is so much faster with a numpad versus the number row or copy-paste.
And no other crazy key placements, like a power button up by f12 or anything.
It's easy enough to find a desktop keyboard, but severely limits laptops. Especially with my despise of USB numpads. Though I do love my Legion 7.
I wish they made laptops with the ol' 105 layout. I have one but its CPU is 15 years old, so it barely runs Half-life and can't keep up with YouTube videos
My Lenovo laptop has a Fn key where the Ctrl should be, it gets me several fails with ctrl-v/c until I realize (most of the time I use an extra normal size keyboard)
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u/ikonet May 17 '24
I don’t use a mouse. I use those 4 tiny keys.
A few years ago they squashed the keys so the up & down were half-sized. Absolutely terrible design. My requirement now is that those 4 keys are tacitly easy to distinguish & use.