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> I’m waiting for (probably far off) day when System76 makes its own laptops instead of using Clevo hardware. I just can’t deal with that keyboard & trackpad qu
by blondin 4y ago
> I’m waiting for (probably far off) day when System76 makes its own laptops instead of using Clevo hardware. I just can’t deal with that keyboard & trackpad quality.
oh, i never knew that! i thought they made everything.
for real though, who thought that having pgup and pgdn as mini keys on top of the left and right arrow keys was a good idea? and how did that get through quality assurance?
- JonathonW 4y agoPage up and page down in that location is fairly common in business-class laptops; Lenovo, Dell, and HP all do it in at least some models.
- trinix912 4y agoIBM ThinkPads had Back/Forward buttons there. They acted like the back/forward buttons on mice these days. Very useful for browsing in Windows Explorer and IE. I loved them.
- mardifoufs 4y agoThey make their desktops but not their laptops. That's probably why their laptops can sometimes have some weird quirks (keyboard layouts, screen resolution options, etc).
- trelane 4y agoIt's really common. The term is ODM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laptop_brands_and_manufacturers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laptop_brands_and_manu...
- qotgalaxy 4y ago[dead]
- m000z0rz 4y agoI vastly prefer pgup and pgdn there. Moving between tabs in a browser is Ctrl+PgDn / Ctrl+PgUp, and physically mapping it near left/right arrows matches my mental mapping.