What is with those arrow keys? Who wants double wide half height up and down keys? 2 x 0.5 does not equal one full sized key.
Am I really to believe that relabeling the win key to super is some sort of engineering feat?
Am I really to believe that relabeling the win key to super is some sort of engineering feat?
I think it's just worth mentioning in the marketing material because laptop keycaps are generally hard/impossible to swap out individually because they're not really standardized. So it's actually significant that it comes with a non windows logo super key out of the box.
Just one of the little things that all add up to make it feel like Linux is a first class supported thing on it.
I've run not windows on laptops for years, with custom key bindings for the windows key, and not once has it ever bothered me that the symbol on the super key is some funny squares instead of the word super.
It's a really small point so probably not worth dwelling on, and yet, they chose to make it a focus point of their copy. I get try hard vibes.
That said, the location of the power button is unfortunate, I would expect it to be on the corner.
And it's handy to not ignore the power button. What Apple does is just waiting to trigger the ACPI event unless you press it for half a second or so.
Then again, instead of all the extra wide keys and one extra column of keys to the right of the Enter key, why not two extra columns? Then we can:
1. avoid eating into the space of the Right Shift key
2. have Home/End/PageUp/PageDown in the same layout as in a full size keyboard
3. have Insert in there as oppose to being up on the function key row
4. have the power button in the top right corner instead of the awkward position it is in here, somewhere in the middle
Like I said, nobody gives keyboards one ounce of thought ever.
I don't think it's about copying Apple as much as an industry-wide neglect of keyboard design. Most people don't give the keyboard a lot of weight when making buying decisions, and consequently manufacturers give keyboard designs very little thought.