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2 May 2008Worst keyboard ever?Someone who had to fight with IBM's PCjr would probably not think so: Junior shipped with some weird plastic slab to which someone had superglued sixty-two pieces of Dentyne. On the other hand, you can still touch-type, sort of, on Junior, which you can't do on a vintage-2008 Dell Vostro 1310:
The whole of the bottom row of letters (Z, X, C...) is one too far to the right. The Z should be below and between A and S, not S and D ... [The] keys are all there. Shift, \|, Z, X ... it's just that the left shift is too big, forcing everything over too far. The Z has to be between the A and S ... look on ANY other keyboard and that's where it sits.
(Via Megan McArdle.) Posted at 9:55 PM to PEBKACTrackBack: 1:30 PM, 3 May 2008 » Oh for the glorious days of big hair, skinny ties, teen movies... from Digital Fossils ...and really lousy keyboards. (H/T to Dustbury.)...[read more] Why is the backslash key over on the bottom-left? On my keyboard it's on the right, past P, [ and ]. What on earth did Dell put in that spot on their keyboard!? Posted by: McGehee at 10:09 PM on 2 May 2008This is the standard UK keyboard layout, and the machine was purchased in the UK. The left shift key inevitably tends to be smaller. Posted by: CGHill at 10:32 PM on 2 May 2008Oh, well that explains it. Driving on the wrong side of the road, backslashing on the wrong side of the keyboard... They never tire of justifying our revolution for us, do they? Posted by: McGehee at 9:40 AM on 3 May 2008Actually this is Dell's new technology for defeating keyloggers. The fact that you can't type anything coherent on it is a feature, not a bug. :-) Posted by: Old Grouch at 12:20 PM on 3 May 2008Hey! Just wanted to provide an update on the Dell Vostro keyboard situation. For some Vostro 1310 and 1510 customers in Europe, Middle East and Africa, we shipped keyboards with a non-standard layout - as you have commented on! We are contacting all those customers and offering them a replacement keyboard at no cost. Further details and pictures of the replacement keyboard can be found on our Direct2Dell Small Business blog. Thanks! Kelly Posted by: kellyatdell at 10:11 AM on 8 May 2008 |