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"Developer" ultrabook but still with an uncomfortable left slanted keyboard layout. When will we see a programmer friendly laptop with a symmetric keyboard layout like the TypeMatrix or TECK?

There is no redeeming quality to the left slanted keyboard layout unless you are making typewriters in the 19th century: http://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/better-keyboards



I've mentioned this in other threads but my gripe is that they got rid of the pgup/pgdown/home/end/etc. column. I have no idea why, and it even looks like there's plenty of space on the laptop for it. I use those keys all day, every day, and the sad trend of laptops aping Apple's keyboard layout saddens me greatly.


And they were so close to perfection with this one. A decent, programmer friendly keyboard with concave key surfaces and a pointing stick - and I would've bought it straight away.

Unfortunately those two are a deal-breaker for me so I'll stick to my T420 and suffer the bad screen.




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