Keyboard innovation is making them worse

Re:Keyboard innovation is making them worse by claudius on Saturday January 18, 2014 @04:05AM (#7080575)

Unfortunately, the T420s seems to be the last Lenovo notebook with a decent keyboard[0], but even this one contains non-standard elements – most importantly the larger Esc and Del key, which, however, are actually quite useful. But I have to admit that even with these keys I actually like, I often end up pressing Insert rather than Delete on standard keyboards.

[0] http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/58683.jpg

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Re:Keyboard innovation is making them worse by drunkenfly on Saturday January 18, 2014 @11:27AM (#7081305)

Fn key is switched with Ctrl - this completely breaks my touchtyping. On last Lenovo I used there was no way to make Fn to be Ctrl, don't know if it was possible on T420. But with that little swap I can't call that keyboard decent.

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Re:Keyboard innovation is making them worse by miahi on Saturday January 18, 2014 @01:50PM (#7081782)

On T530 you can do it from the BIOS settings. I have the weirdest problems with that though. If I touch-type I always use the Fn as Ctrl, but when I read a more complex shortcut and try to apply it by looking at the keyboard (like: Notepad++ XML format = Ctrl+Alt+Shift+B), I always use the "Ctrl" instead of Fn frist.

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Re:Keyboard innovation is making them worse by claudius on Saturday January 18, 2014 @11:40AM (#7081339)

The Fn key has always been the leftmost key on Thinkpads, so I don’t really care about that. However, even my T410s has the option to swap Fn and Ctrl in the BIOS, so I would assume the T420s to have it, too.

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Re:Keyboard innovation is making them worse by mindcruzer on Saturday January 18, 2014 @12:31PM (#7081489)

I feel you. I use my desktop 80% of the time, touchtyping on my Das Keyboard. When I switch to my T430s my typing speed definitely drops for that reason.

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