Business Notebooks

I have a big usability problem with the keyboard of my elitebook and I write this post with the hope that who deals with ergonomics in HP read it.

Unfortunately, my company provides me an HP elitebook laptop. In the past I was a happy user of a Lenovo T series. HP laptops have a very serious problem for power users like me: the keyboard is terrible! I try to list all the problems:

1. Key stroke is too short
2. The layout of the keys seems invented by a madman: it's hard to understand why they waste key space (e.g. adding phone keys: who really needs them?) by saving on the home, end and PageUp/Down keys that are on PC keyboards since the 1980s and are often used by Excel users in combination with CTRL. This way you are forced to use improbable and difficult to memorize Fn combinations with a negative impact on productivity
3. It's also absurd that the up/down arrow keys are so small and incorporate double functions
4. The function keys have to be enabled with the Fn key. If you use Fnlock then you have difficulty for example to use the shift key which becomes Stamp
5. The Fn key is in the wrong place: to the right of CTRL (instead of to the left as it should be) and so it's wrong and you press it continuously. This in Excel creates problems by setting the scroll lock by mistake
6. Also missing is the middle mouse button which is particularly useful for scrolling documents used in conjunction with the trackpoint.

In short, a disastrous and frustrating experience that makes me want to avoid using the HP without an external keyboard.

I hope this post is useful for keyboard designers.

Bye

Pasquale