I sit here in awe that they are selling a Developer Edition laptop without providing a single top view of the keyboard.
https://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd?refid=xps...
Maybe I'm being way too picky, but the layout and feel of the keyboard is, aside from the screen, the other massively important thing that you don't get to change on a laptop.
I mean we are typists before we are programmers. Isn't it worth letting me see how the ins/del/home/end cluster is laid out?!
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edit: It looks to be agreeable. Ctrl occupies the bottom-left and Del occupies the top right, which I've found very reasonable in the past (easy to find quickly when hopping onto a new device)
The Home/End/PageUp/PageDown are loacted on the arrow keys, which actually seems pretty reasonable:
http://www.cdn2.loopygadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/...
Note that the Thinkpad X1 does not have Ctrl in the bottom left, instead its the Fn key. On the plus side, the X1 kept Home and End keys up top, with dedicated PageUp/PageDown near the arrow keys.
http://blog.laptopmag.com/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/...
https://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd?refid=xps...
Maybe I'm being way too picky, but the layout and feel of the keyboard is, aside from the screen, the other massively important thing that you don't get to change on a laptop.
I mean we are typists before we are programmers. Isn't it worth letting me see how the ins/del/home/end cluster is laid out?!
~~~
edit: It looks to be agreeable. Ctrl occupies the bottom-left and Del occupies the top right, which I've found very reasonable in the past (easy to find quickly when hopping onto a new device)
The Home/End/PageUp/PageDown are loacted on the arrow keys, which actually seems pretty reasonable:
http://www.cdn2.loopygadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/...
Note that the Thinkpad X1 does not have Ctrl in the bottom left, instead its the Fn key. On the plus side, the X1 kept Home and End keys up top, with dedicated PageUp/PageDown near the arrow keys.
http://blog.laptopmag.com/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/...