Hi,

SU here - my question is does anyone know the Dell latitude keyboard situation?

For years I've blindly purchased Dell notebooks with the assumption that the keyboard (and function keys) would never change.

so - now they have changed the keys all around and I'm all back to re-learning touch typing on another keyboard.

this one has all sorts of horrible three key combinations to get simple keystrokes.

to get refresh, you have to do F5 and Fn and that never works because it is always in the other mode where it turns off or on the keyboard light.

there is no real single finger key for page down - that requires two hands. Ouch!

everything in my fingers is acclimated to the old keyboard say on my e6410.

when I upgraded to the 7420 (and it seems all Latitudes) they changed the keyboard.

no one at dell support understands this question as they all love their mouse and learn on this newstyle keyboards.

i'm an old fXrt and can't easily adjust for a variety of mostly physical issues - i have hand operations that alter my ability to use a keyboard planned and I do not ever want to adjust to this new keyboard as I always am hopping back to my other machines that have the original layout.

the layout I prefer is 6 keys under the shift button on the right side. those WOULD Be Pg Up, Pg Down, left / right and up . down. pretty ingenious.

anyone also experiencing the same? Is there a solution?