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"But it only costs the price of learning a new keyboard shortcut," the easily dismissed voice from the Internet whispers, "easier to press than a non-homerow ke

• moe 14y ago
  "A keyboard shortcut involves pressing at least two keys" mumbles the voice of the veteran, "those four keys were invented for a reason (try multi-tapping your shortcut, as is common with pgup/pgdown)..."
• acabal 14y ago
  I get what you're saying, but I use those keys to navigate so often that constantly contorting my pinky to reach fn is going to wreck my wrist. With the keys on their own row I can drift my right hand over and comfortably scroll through long documents with one hand, and without having to constantly be aiming for and possibly missing a modifier key. (And possibly fat-fingering the arrow keys because they're so tiny on this model.) Plus, some people (me) are comfortable with their keyboard layout and shortcuts and don't want to be forced to change their typing habits for no significant gain, when the alternative (full row) is entirely possible and in fact present in similarly-sized laptops like the Yoga. I ask myself, "Why would Dell change their keyboard like that, given literally all their other laptop models are otherwise?" and the only answer I can think of is, "To look more like Apple." That's not a great reason.