Really hoping for the laptop's next iteration to have a reverse T for the arrow keys. Otherwise very solid laptop, would be my first non-Mac choice.
Guess what was the most frequently used key? Cursor down followed by cursor up.
For example, cursor down was pressed ~2.5x more times than space, or ~4 times more than letter E, which is was the most frequently used letter.
Guess what are the smallest keys on a Mac-type keyboard (the layout also used by the Framework laptop). Cursor up and down. Madness.
Either that, or PgUp/PgDown
The writing is on the wall, just wait for Lenovo to finally extinguish their ugly step-child of asymmetry and deprive us of the last good arrow key layout left in portable laptops.
Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V are used far less often, and you can type them with one hand.
Doesn't seem like a big deal, I'm trying to think of a situation where I need the other hand to be free while paging or moving to end of the line.
> These keys are for some people the most common keys used for fast nevigation in code and documents.
Seems like a personal preference. I have a working trackpad so I almost never use them. Also, home/end on a thinkpad are out of reach anyway. And what's the point of 'insert' ?
> Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V are used far less often,
I use these constantly, I don't remember touching home/end ever, pg up/dwn maybe by accident.
The alternative was to get a 15" laptop, which is slightly too big for me, so I suffer in silence and occasionally bitch about it on forums.
In any case, the keyboard on the Framework is fully replaceable. If there's significant enough demand for an inverted-T cluster, you can bet there are people who will make the replacement for it (if OEM doesn't get to it first).
The etymology from what I remember comes from the fact that if asking for 86 of anything at once is impossible to provide.
Ive also seen a laptop with the arrow keys slightly offset downward.