Sunday, September 12, 2010

Keyboards

One thing that has always brothered me is the layout of my laptop's keyboard. As shown in the photo there's not one but two backslash keys in close proximity. It just confounds me because I can't imagine why you would ever need two backslash keys on the right side of the keyboard.



MSI GX630

The only explanation I can think of is that the designers were so insistent about a perfectly rectangular keyboard design so they just tossed a random backslash key in order to fill in a void. Also as a result of the rectangular design the right shift key is tiny putting it at odds with pretty much every laptop keyboard in the last decade. For reference here's some other laptop keyboards:


Sony PCG-FR415M



MacBook Air




Sony VAIO S260

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