Year ago I brought Thinkpad X220, and fall in love with that keyboard. Then I got cheap x61s and T60 and they have even better keyboards.
But why I write this?
Today I went to a computer and electronics store. And just try some keyboards in laptops...
First what hit me was key stroke. Old laptops has very deep stroke. And its good. I love to feel that I'm just click. My fingers is not accurate and it good to know I pressed a key. New ones... keys are less stable, and it easier to accidentally click.
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Img 1. Microsoft surface pro keyboard
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If you writing long text you probably use keys like PgUp PgDn Home and End.
And as you can see lot of small laptops don't have those keys. Like my old HP mini 210 has this block as Fn+Arrow.
In old Thinkpads this block is like in PC keyboard. And its great. Even more in X220 and T420, big Delete and ESC are pretty conformable to use
Hey, who ever use keys like F1 F2...F12 ? well Maybe all of you know that F5 mean refresh, Alt+F4 mean close window and so on. If you use IDE to write programs, you have lot of shortcuts to control it under Fx keys.
How it looks in Microsoft surface you already saw. But most common example is...
Fx keys.We talking about laptops, those computers need buttons what you do not see on PC. Like "hibernate", "WiFi control" or even "power".
Fn key, but things like power up or sound control is relay better on separate buttons.The conclusions I leave to you, I would still like to ask what you think and why this could happen?