Volitions Advocate on 9/9/2009 at 23:45
a big fat WTF from those of us shopping for a new lappy in NA.
Why the hell do you need 2 backslash keys on a keyboard.. LET ALONE right where you normally go for 2 of the most used keys ON the keyboard.. Shift and Enter.
I want a netbook for making notes... and on a keyboard that small I dont want one where i'm constantly going to have slashes all over the page and one big run-on paragraph.
Martin Karne on 10/9/2009 at 00:15
C'est la fifi. Excuse moi, wifi.
Nameless Voice on 10/9/2009 at 00:18
Worst of both worlds to annoy as many people as possible?
Keyboard design of late seems to involve moving keys around randomly to make anyone used to a keyboard constantly hit the wrong keys, especially on laptops.
The backslash key on classic UK keyboards is between the left shift key and the Z key, and it drives me mad whenever they decide to shrink enter and move it over there... let alone putting a Sleep button where a normal key usually is, or any of the other bizarre design decisions that seem to be made on cheap modern keyboards that I've seen lately.
Mr.Duck on 10/9/2009 at 01:19
THE FRENCH ARE COMING, RUN TO THE SHOWERS!!! (see, they hate to take baths....1 + 1 and all that fluff).
Hi raph :D
<3
*Flees*
Queue on 10/9/2009 at 01:35
French makes me horny.
Enchantermon on 10/9/2009 at 02:17
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
The backslash key on classic UK keyboards is between the left shift key and the Z key, and it drives me mad whenever they decide to shrink enter and move it over there...
They put enter on the left side of the keyboard? Weird. :weird: That would drive me insane, too.
One of the reasons I like widescreen laptops is it results in a less-crowded keyboard. I hate using my mom's Dell because it's a standard-size screen, and the keyboard feels very tight and cramped.
rachel on 10/9/2009 at 04:17
A French layout is with AZERTY instead of QWERTY. The backslash is on the 8 key and can be typed using Alt Gr + 8, and there's only one of them. Do some research and don't call it French if it's not.
Me thinks your problem is netbook manufacturers are dicks. I'd be extremely surprised to see a genuine AZERTY-layout note-/netbook for sale in a store in the US.
Volitions Advocate on 10/9/2009 at 05:38
the guy at the store told me it was french.. so I said french.
Nameless Voice on 10/9/2009 at 07:23
Quote Posted by Enchantermon
They put enter on the left side of the keyboard? Weird. :weird:
What? No, they just make it smaller and put a backslash key there.
I think that may be standard on US keyboards? But the classic UK keyboards have double-height return keys.
N'Al on 10/9/2009 at 07:57
US keyboard
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UK keyboard
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Clavier français
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