Take that, fat-cats in Congress!
OMG! Did you hear? Lenovo has just added a BIOS feature to its new ThinkPads allowing you to swap Ctrl and Fn! Apparently this was a big request for many people in the world and Lenovo, being good guys, listened intently and pushed this passed the faceless bureaucrats in accounting and GOT THIS THROUGH! Hope, people, is what Lenovo promised, and change is what you get.
Honestly, though, has anyone even thought they needed this BIOS tweak let alone requested it? Anyone out there TOTALLY big into Ctrl being on the outside?
YES WE CAN!
And it is a big deal after the 758th time you hit function thinking it’s control. That’s what really drove Jack Nicholson crazy in that movie.
my gateway has the FN button on the end and the Ctrl button inside, i’ve gotten so used to it that EVERY other computer i touch I get it wrong. I wish I could switch mine.. damn.
Yes, this BIOS option is important to me, and its non-existence is the primary reason I haven’t bought a ThinkPad (2nd reason is their general lack of innovation in hardware). If they can get this rolled out to their available products soon enough, I might actually buy one!
dude, you serious? the location of the fn key is the first thing I look at when buying a laptop.
I worked for a couple years on a Sun keyboard that swapped the Ctrl and Caps-lock keys, swapped the backspace and backslash and added a “meta” key between alt and the space bar. It drove me insane.