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I absolutely love the fact that a laptop fully based around the web is being denied a caps lock key. Good riddance. I think 99% of its usage (constants aside) is for trolling/yelling.

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I like to use it as my Control key, though. I'd be concerned that they would replace it with something else and I'd have to learn to twist my pinky unnaturally again.

This is exactly what I was about to say. It looks like they've used the caps lock position for the Fn key on the cr-48, so it looks like this may not be possible on this unit.

Then again, I guess it's not that big a deal since the ctrl key doesn't really get used on the web.

It looks like a 'search' key actually. Look closely at the fourth screenshot. Not sure if I'm right, though.

Photos of this laptop leaked several days ago, with greater detail on the keyboard. It is indeed a search key. The shift key also has a light on it, suggesting that it can be double-tapped to activate caps lock.

I use the ctrl key a lot on ssh sessions. If the web is now reduced to youtube and valleywag, I'd gladly abandon it.

You are thinking of the Internet. The Web is an abbreviation of the "World Wide Web" (of hyperlinks), rather than the medium which conveys its data.

touché. good point.

ok, so i must say web represent a very very very low priority on my internet usage. having only 'the web' would be like cable TV with only the weather channel.

No. Thanks.

You can map it to Ctrl.

In Chrome OS? Is there a web app for that?

It's built in.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=5152

Indeed. I can't remember the last time I hit the caps lock key on purpose.

But how will we ever code in FORTRAN on the thing?

Wait 13 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#FORTRAN_77

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#Fortran_90

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