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I will never understand why laptop keyboards always have to be unique, and uniquely terrible. Trying to type on an unfamiliar laptop is needlessly troublesome.

• jolmg 5y ago
  Because there's no room for a standard full-size keyboard, so they need to get creative in how to fit some keys or omit others. They also need to differentiate themselves, so they can't simply adopt a keyboard design from a competitor.
  • naikrovek 5y ago
    > they can't simply adopt a keyboard design from a competitor why can't they all standardize? the worst hallucination that hardware and software manufacturers have is that they "need to add unique value" or just that they "need to add value" at all. I DO NOT care for any vendor-specific crap on the laptop. I do not buy a laptop for any of those things. I do not want a vendor-specific driver updater when Windows Update already does that. or, would, if the vendor published their drivers there. I do not want vendor-specific wallpaper. I do not want any of the bundled software. ever. No one ever buys a specific laptop to gain access to those things. No one. businesses often choose a single manufacturer for most deployed hardware to make administration easier, and none of them choose their vendor based on those admin tools. they choose based on price, features, and warranty terms. "we need to add value".... no, you need to stop ruining things in the name of value.