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Well, I'll wait to buy 'til the school special offers start xP there're mostly nice precentage cut offs then
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That simply means it has 92% normal sized keys. That doesn't account for the fact that all of the functional keys are always awkwardly placed and a number pad is completely absent.
Akkernight, believe me when I say that I can sympathize with your dislike for a shrunken keyboard. However, I certainly don't dislike it so much that the costs don't outway the benefits that come in the form of size, weight, and battery life that you'll get in a 10" netbook or even a 12.1" notebook. I also feel that you would think the same if you realized how bad carrying a big laptop around campus is going to be. It's your money and your laptop, I'm just giving some sound advice.
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> That doesn't account for the fact that all of the functional keys are always ackwardly placed and a number pad is completely absent.
Not on my MSI Wind. If you hold the function key (left of ctrl) then you can use the number pad that is built into other keys. See a picture: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/wp-cont...eyboard-01.jpg
This is done on a hardware level, so there's no need for drivers or any rubbish.
Having personally owned a 17" laptop, I can tell you they don't call it the "desktop replacement laptop" for nothing.
Very big, very heavy. I might move it about 4 times a year, otherwise, it sits in one place the whole time.
I can't imagine lugging that thing around school.
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That ain't a number pad. That's numbers. They're offset, they require an extra key to be held down. Or... if you turn num-lock on so you don't have to hold a key down, you lose a bunch of your letter keys. It's not a number pad. Every laptop has this. Talk to some people that take pride in their 10-key calculations per minute speed and try to convince them that this is a number pad.
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