Star Have a ThinkPad Keyboard on Any Computer
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 30th Mar 2009 13:00 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems "ThinkPads are well known for the quality of their keyboards. This has long been a strength of the ThinkPad brand, but when we say how good ThinkPad keyboards are we almost always implicitly mean 'relative to the keyboards on other laptops'. That might not be the case for everyone though, because the ThinkPad Full-Size UltraNav USB Keyboard is currently available for sale and it is a testament to how attached people have become to these keyboards."
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RE[2]: It's good
by lagitus on Tue 31st Mar 2009 06:39 UTC in reply to "RE: It's good"
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I often ask myself: What is the Fn key good for on this particular keyboard configuration? On laptops, it's used to get the num block from within the alphanumerical section. But this keyboard *has* a num block, and cursor keys. So what functionality does it create? Do they address typical laptop issues (LCD/CRT, VOL++/-- etc)? It's a honest question...


My guess is that it was left there mainly so users of the laptop keyboards wouldn't have to readjust, which seems like a good enough reason to me. From the pictures I see the keyboard has the same fn combinations as recent thinkpads, so it's used to control the same laptop functions. Of course, most of them are useless for a desktop.

By the way, on http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/ultranav_keyboard_04... I notice that there are two attitional keys (grey) in the "cursor T". Can anyone explain what they are? My ThinkPad (586 class) doesn't have them. I cannot identify them through magnification.


They are forward/backward buttons for the browser.

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