"Design Matters Users spend a lot of time on their keyboards, and a comfortable, easy to use keyboard plays a big role in their overall satisfaction with their PC. Knowing this, Lenovo spends a lot of time perfecting the design of its keyboard. Lenovo found the average user hits the Delete and the Escape key 700 times each a week. To help improve the typing experience, Lenovo made these buttons larger. With many people eating lunch at their desks, Lenovo tightened up the spaces between the keys to help avoid crumbs that would otherwise fall below the keyboard."
...and the keyboard is still qwerty --with one key, and only one key, to occupy both your thumbs, so instead of a quick thumb press to shift or ctrl, your pinkies get to fly all over the place! Same old worthless caps lock. Same old distant backspace. It's almost as-'re-everythinged' as the keyboards on the Macbooks! Oh, hey, look, TWO pointer devices to go unused while you roll with your USB mouse. And what's the OS? ..Windows only. Yay, progress.
Remove your head from your design behind and think for a second, please.
You are NOT going to get a mass-market device sold in a mass-market fashion with a Dvorak or other keyboard. Period. It's not happening. It is not anywhere near remotely approaching cost-effective to do so, given how many people haven't even heard of the layout, let alone use it on a daily basis. Moved keys might happen, but if the rate of seeing them in the wild are any indication I doubt it. But then you go on to say that pointing devices are useless because you'll have a mouse. I thought you were worried about efficiency - I guess you were just being difficult for the sake of it! Most people like using the touchpad with a laptop if they don't want to drop a mouse in, and the glories of Trackpoints for efficiency with touch-typers have been extolled for years. Also, Windows only being a deal-breaker? I thought a Linux user could easily install it on their own. Besides, as we've already learned, all that bloatware that comes with a laptop also serves to drop the price, so if it DID come with Linux you all would be whining about it costing more!
If Apple had invented colemak and made it standard, they could have pulled it off. Dvorak? Meh. I DID pay more for my Ubuntu Dell than the equivalent Windows model, and I don't mind. What I mind is how Dell support treats their Ubuntu customers and how their service technicians choose parts to replace by what must be some game of darts. Cost doesn't bother me. Incompetence bothers me, wherever I see it, and I notice it most when I see the way people design computers.
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"Design Matters
Users spend a lot of time on their keyboards, and a comfortable, easy to use keyboard plays a big role in their overall satisfaction with their PC. Knowing this, Lenovo spends a lot of time perfecting the design of its keyboard. Lenovo found the average user hits the Delete and the Escape key 700 times each a week. To help improve the typing experience, Lenovo made these buttons larger. With many people eating lunch at their desks, Lenovo tightened up the spaces between the keys to help avoid crumbs that would otherwise fall below the keyboard."
...and the keyboard is still qwerty --with one key, and only one key, to occupy both your thumbs, so instead of a quick thumb press to shift or ctrl, your pinkies get to fly all over the place! Same old worthless caps lock. Same old distant backspace. It's almost as-'re-everythinged' as the keyboards on the Macbooks! Oh, hey, look, TWO pointer devices to go unused while you roll with your USB mouse. And what's the OS? ..Windows only. Yay, progress.
where's lenovo's design center??? is it still in europe or japan?
@xconan
Research Triangle Park. Between Durham and Cary, NC.
@zzyzx
thanks. i thought it was designed somewhere but it's even better designed in the good ol usa... does that also imply the o-phone was designed here?
Remove your head from your design behind and think for a second, please.
You are NOT going to get a mass-market device sold in a mass-market fashion with a Dvorak or other keyboard. Period. It's not happening. It is not anywhere near remotely approaching cost-effective to do so, given how many people haven't even heard of the layout, let alone use it on a daily basis. Moved keys might happen, but if the rate of seeing them in the wild are any indication I doubt it. But then you go on to say that pointing devices are useless because you'll have a mouse. I thought you were worried about efficiency - I guess you were just being difficult for the sake of it! Most people like using the touchpad with a laptop if they don't want to drop a mouse in, and the glories of Trackpoints for efficiency with touch-typers have been extolled for years. Also, Windows only being a deal-breaker? I thought a Linux user could easily install it on their own. Besides, as we've already learned, all that bloatware that comes with a laptop also serves to drop the price, so if it DID come with Linux you all would be whining about it costing more!
If Apple had invented colemak and made it standard, they could have pulled it off. Dvorak? Meh. I DID pay more for my Ubuntu Dell than the equivalent Windows model, and I don't mind. What I mind is how Dell support treats their Ubuntu customers and how their service technicians choose parts to replace by what must be some game of darts. Cost doesn't bother me. Incompetence bothers me, wherever I see it, and I notice it most when I see the way people design computers.