I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad

Re:I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad by sfn42 on Thursday April 03, 2025 @04:19AM (#43566531)

My first ThinkPad had terrible battery life. It was a X1 Extreme or something like that, pretty high end but the battery was useless. Even brand new it wouldn't last an hour off leash. Also couldn't use usb-c charging from the monitors at the office, had to be plugged in.

Also the Fn key is where the Ctrl key should be, which is endlessly annoying as a user of different laptop brands.

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Re:I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad by jeswin on Thursday April 03, 2025 @04:59AM (#43566859)

> Also the Fn key is where the Ctrl key should be, which is endlessly annoying as a user of different laptop brands.

There's always been a bios option to swap them. It's on my x230, and probably exists on older PCs as well.

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Re:I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad by arcanemachiner on Thursday April 03, 2025 @04:33AM (#43566645)

I heard recently that there's an option somewhere to virtually swap the Ctrl and Fn keys.

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Re:I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad by mistercheph on Thursday April 03, 2025 @04:36AM (#43566666)

It’s still annoying to use the smaller key, but you can swap them in the BIOS config

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Re:I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad by RunSet on Thursday April 03, 2025 @09:44AM (#43569542)

IBM invented the Fn key so if anyone has their Fn key where the Ctrl key should be, it is the copycats.

> The Fn key first debuted on the monochrome display ThinkPad 300 in October of 1992. Yes there was a ThinkPad with a monochrome display. The Fn key circa 1992 was placed exactly as it is today. Interestingly enough, Apple uses the same positions for their Fn and Ctrl keys as ThinkPad. Every other notebook personal computer manufacturer that I know of has the Fn and Ctrl key positions swapped. Some would say backwards.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110130203223/https://www.lenov...

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