On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 09:18:18AM -0500, Jason Shaw wrote:
> I have a first gen X1 Carbon and love it.  It does have the usual downsides
> of most ultrabooks; soldered on ram and non-standard drive, but has been
> rock solid.  It has a chiclet style keyboard, trackpoint, 3 physical mouse
> buttons, 1400x900 resolution on a 14" screen, on a machine that's basically
> the size of a MacBook Air 13".  Linux just works out of the box.
>
> The major issue is that the current generation has the worst keyboard
> layout I've ever seen.  The Function keys are now a "smart screen" that
> dynamically change to "useful" keys based on what tasks you are doing.
> Even worse though is the physical keyboard layout. I'll let the picture
> speak for itself:
> http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/thinkpad-x1-carbon-keyboard.jpg

Home and end where caps lock was?  Delete next to backspace?  What were
they thinking?  ~ and ` between alt and control?

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Len Sorensen


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