{"id":324,"date":"2008-03-18T16:27:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T21:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2008-03-18T16:27:11","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T21:27:11","slug":"i-hate-this-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/i-hate-this-keyboard\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hate this Keyboard!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/posts\/toshibatatellitem.jpg\" class=\"postimage\" alt=\"*\" \/img><\/p>\n<p>\nThe word &#8220;performance&#8221; usually means CPU, memory, disk, or video performance to most people. That&#8217;s usually what I mean by it too. But after several months of experience with one particular notebook, I&#8217;ve found a component that has destroyed performance more than any other: the keyboard.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\nWhen PC Pitstop did a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=87\">bloatware survey<\/a> last year, we had several notebook PCs that we couldn&#8217;t return. I took one of them, the Toshiba Satellite A135, to use as a Windows Vista test system. Initially, I tried leaving all the preinstalled crapware on the system to see how it would perform. After a few weeks of that, I couldn&#8217;t stand it anymore. At least the crapware situation can be fixed, though, unlike the keyboard.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI hate this keyboard.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTake a look at the pictures of this notebook. On the left side, next to the keyboard, are five bar-shaped buttons. One is the power button; the other four are <em>media player buttons<\/em>. You can launch Windows Media Player with a single dedicated button click! You can play, pause, stop, or skip songs! Throw away your IPods, lads and lasses, and put the Toshiba Satellite A135 in your pocket!\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"220\" src=\"\/images\/posts\/ts-leftb.jpg\" width=\"125\" alt=\"Toshiba Left\" style=\"float:left;margin-right:7px\"\/><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSomewhere inside Toshiba headquarters, a hardware designer was thinking, &#8220;What users <em>really<\/em> want is four buttons to the left of the keyboard that control the media player. Let&#8217;s put lots of space between those little buttons too, so they take up a lot of room and we can put hieroglyphic labels above them.&#8221; Never mind that Toshiba also ships crapware that runs and provides on-screen controls for that. No, Toshiba must have done some expensive market research that concluded users were rioting in the streets for those dedicated buttons.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\nWide-screen notebooks offer an opportunity for a keyboard with normal key spacing. Toshiba decided that a scrunched-up keyboard was just fine. But hey, <em>anyone<\/em> can shrink keys to a tiny size and make them hard to press. Toshiba engineering kicked it up a notch and decided that the typical PC key layout needed some of the same attention they paid to designing media player controls. The Delete key is usually in the upper-right corner, but Toshiba moved it to the bottom right, near the space bar. To balance out the stupidity, they moved the tilde key to the bottom-left side of the space bar.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"220\" src=\"\/images\/posts\/ts-rightm.jpg\" width=\"125\" alt=\"Toshiba Right\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:7px\"\/><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo compound the craziness, Toshiba decided to put the context menu key in the coveted spot vacated by Delete. Half of you are probably thinking, &#8220;Context menu key? What&#8217;s that?&#8221; It&#8217;s the key most keyboards have that will open the right-click menu when you press it, and it usually has a picture of a cursor and a menu on it. You can get the same functionality by pressing Shift-F10&#8211;or of course, by right-clicking. To keep the context menu key company, they squeezed the Windows key just to the left. I am totally mystified by this choice. On most full-sized keyboards the Windows and context menu keys are next to the space bar, but Toshiba swapped them for the Insert and Delete keys? What were they thinking?\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\nI am a touch typist, so keyboard layouts make a huge difference in how quickly I can get my work done. Most of the time, I work on PCs with reasonable keyboard layouts. This makes the Toshiba Satellite A135 even more of a challenge to use. Every once in a while I need to use the Delete key. Reflexes send my hand up to the upper right, only to be foiled when a right-click menu appears on the screen. I also find myself pressing the hard plastic area just to the left of the stubby tab key, just above the all-important media player launch button.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\nI hate this keyboard. Oh, did I mention that already?\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\nOh, and I typed this on my old Gateway portable computer. It only has 384MB of RAM so it doesn&#8217;t run XP all that quickly, but the keyboard is a dream. Darn, I really miss those Toshiba media player buttons. NOT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/images\/posts\/toshibatatellitem.jpg\" class=\"postimage\" alt=\"*\" \/img\/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe word &#8220;performance&#8221; usually means CPU, memory, disk, or video performance to most people. That&#8217;s usually what I mean by it too. But after several months of experience with one particular notebook, I&#8217;ve found a component that has destroyed performance more than any other: the keyboard.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen PC Pitstop did a <a href=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/?p=87\">bloatware survey<\/a> last year, we had several notebook PCs that we couldn&#8217;t return. I took one of them, the Toshiba Satellite A135, to use as a Windows Vista test system. Initially, I tried leaving all the preinstalled crapware on the system to see how it would perform. After a few weeks of that, I couldn&#8217;t stand it anymore. 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