Everyone, when picking laptops: "what's the resolution, battery life, RAM?"

Me, when picking laptops: "I just want the 'fn', '\' and '~' buttons in some sane place and a touchpad with good palm recognition that wont make the cursor jump all over the place when I type."

@monsieuricon Also, a numpad is non-negotiable for me. I've seen folks use laptops without a numpad, and it's like, how do people live like that?

Seriously, I have two laptops -- one has "Ctrl", then "FN", and the other has "FN" and then "CTRL". Only one of them lets me remap them in BIOS, and only into the sequence I actually dislike.

@monsieuricon what are sane places to you? on my Latitude keyboard (6-row) they're:
- fn: bottom left next to ctrl (ctrl, fn, win, alt). most laptops have this and i like it because I prefer ctrl in the corner.
- '\': above Enter, like on any ANSI board
'~': left from 1, like on any keyboard.

@Legit_Spaghetti Eh, I'm one of those people -- I rarely, if ever, use the numpad, even on full size keyboards. :)

@Man2Dev oh, yes, let's not forget the cursed shapes of the "Enter" key on some keyboards, too.

@monsieuricon I mostly remap keys, so for me the layout (ANSI) is all that matters, plus of course the touchpad. And: Less moving parts. I hate fans.

@monsieuricon But but but... how do you type an em dash then? Or a non-breaking space? Or the ® and ™ trademark symbols?!

(I realize my typing requirements are very different from the average user.)

@monsieuricon you know, you can also have a poweroff button in place of "delete"

@monsieuricon Don't forget having actual F-keys instead of a touchscreen. Down there along with 2nd gen x1 carbon's keyboard.

@monsieuricon There is a special place in hell for designers who swapped CTRL and Fn... I am staying away from Lenovo, but it is tricky - many companies buy these for employees. :(

@monsieuricon Keyboard layout, and physical buttons on the trackpad, are together why I have a thinkpad instead of a @frameworkcomputer today. None of the "hack a thinkpad keyboard and trackpad into a frame.work" projects have gone anywhere, as far as I can tell.

@Legit_Spaghetti @monsieuricon I never cared for a numpad on a laptop until I started doing parametric CAD... 😀

@krzk @monsieuricon I've just swapped them back in BIOS on every ThinkPad I own. Relatively painless... but it does confuse everyone else who touches my laptop

@mcdanlj yup, if framework offered a trackpoint for the 13", I would immediately buy one. But 23 years of input habit is hard to break.

@notting Whereas if lenovo offered a keyboard for the T series without a trackpoint, I'd remove the distracting nub...☺

@cas @monsieuricon I cannot access BIOS on company laptop :) and even if I could I think it's still Lenovo's fault - you don't swap keys in a keyboard after 30 years of having the CTRL at that place :) (Y looks at Z.... anyone uses German keyboards? :) )

@krzk @monsieuricon ohhh company laptops, urgh that's incredibly frustrating