Sonntag, 31. Jänner 2010, Christoph Ertl
There are a lot of things to consider when coming to a decision about which notebook to buy. Among the obvious facts like cpu power, memory, ports etc. there’s another important fact to consider.
The keyboard layout !!
Some manufacturers are playing around with the layout that you even cannot find the key you are looking for when searching with your eyes. Hitting it while typing is impossible.
What are most misplaced keys?
- enter key (too small)
- right shift key (too small or at the wrong position)
- home, end keys (access via Fn-Key)
Depending on your computer usage you will not even recognize this fact. But if you are typing a lot you will despair on it.
And if you are writing source code, which is a per line writing, you will miss the home and end keys a lot. I can’t live without them.
So when searching for my new daily companion I had a look at the keyboard layout especially the size and position of the shift key and the position of the enter key. I couldn’t find that much business notebooks having the home and end keys as separate keys. We are talking about 12” subnotebooks. So what.
I corrected the keyboard layout with software. In my case home is “under” page up and end “under” page down. I just swapped this keys. Great. I really like it.
To change keys you can use the tool SharpKeys which is simple and great.
