Has there been any laptop keyboard layout that didn't bug you?

[Kamen Rider Blade]

It seems that every laptop keyboard layout has made some sort of compromise that annoys me because they had to mess with the standard keyboard layout.

How do you folks feel?

[varslot]

Well, it's all a matter of what you're used to, but my guess would be the MacBook layout. It could be because when I switched to Mac I was prepared to relearn alot of things, so The keyboard layout wasn't a big deal back then.

[RESPRiT]

Most laptop keyboards don't really "bug" me to begin with, they're just average.

[simon_C]

I have two or 3 i like.
My Lenovo x200s
my 1st gen macbook chiclet
my Powerbook Pismo g3 bronze keyboard

[FPGA-88]

Most laptop keyboards don't really "bug" me to begin with, they're just average.

Until mid 90’s, except for Atari Stacy, I was always carrying full size keyboard with every laptop. Each layout was restricted and I refused to accept it. The last two decades made things endurable as numeric keypads were no longer strangers on laptops. I do miss the last golden days of innovation of mid 90’s, and miss  many proposed  concepts of docking/extending designs, where some of them where almost within reach. I greatly miss IBM’s Butterfly idea, I wish someone expanded and evolved the original thinking. So much potential, not just for keys, but screen as well.

[berserkfan]

It seems that every laptop keyboard layout has made some sort of compromise that annoys me because they had to mess with the standard keyboard layout.

How do you folks feel?

I feel that laptops are never designed with big typists in mind. They are designed with mobility in mind. Ultimately, if you are the kind of guy who types 10,000 words a day, you are expected to get your own good quality keyboard (which most Geekhackers would say Topre/ HHKB).

Remember that the keyboard is one of the biggest parts of the laptop, surface wise. I'm sure most mobile people would rather have a smaller laptop and a smaller keyboard, than a truly good keyboard which means a heavier and bigger laptop.

[daerid]

I don't mind the current Macbook Pro keyboards, that's about it. But I haven't met a PC laptop keyboard I didn't hate.

[hwood34]

It didn't bug me back then but my Alienware keyboard has come back to haunt me. They had these really wide caps and it took forever to get used to regular sized keys again.

[oscillik]

Most laptop keyboards don't really "bug" me to begin with, they're just average.

Until mid 90’s, except for Atari Stacy, I was always carrying full size keyboard with every laptop. Each layout was restricted and I refused to accept it. The last two decades made things endurable as numeric keypads were no longer strangers on laptops. I do miss the last golden days of innovation of mid 90’s, and miss  many proposed  concepts of docking/extending designs, where some of them where almost within reach. I greatly miss IBM’s Butterfly idea, I wish someone expanded and evolved the original thinking. So much potential, not just for keys, but screen as well.

you had an Atari STacy? that's so awesome