Do other people feal the sameway about this particular issue?

[KTFO|SGTmoody]

Hi

 

I have had many keyboads all of a similar layout and what I would consider to be the "correct" way. This is a UK keyboad layout but I think it effects other countries layouts as well.

 

What I am talking about is the Enter key.  For the past few years I have been using the Razer Black Widow Ultimate 2010 which has what i would cosider the correct Enter key style. So a large key.

 

As shown below in this image's i aqired from google

 

But The new keyboad the 2013 version they have changed the enter key. moved this key   "   |   " and some other buttons to annoying places.  Please see the image below for the difference

 

So notice the enter key is now smaller. the shift key on the left is larger the "  |  " key has moved. as well as the @ # ' "

 

This for me is frustrating.  The only reason why im looking at keyboads again is because the E key has decided to stop working on my current one. So I would have liked to have just got a new one.

But I probably wont now due to this change. (yes i have had it appart, re soldered contacts etc with no luck. The fact that its a multilayer PCB does not help with tracing circits, and there are no diagrams to help )

 

Does anyone else feal the same way I do about the pointless design change to the keyboad.  All i see is problems rather than improvements.  Maybe the only thing that might make a difference to some one is that the Shift key is longer and their 2 year old with small hands can now reach the shift key to run!

 

I use the specail charictor keys quite a lot as I do quite a bit of coding so them being in the correct place as well as having a nice large enter key to hit in anger some times is good!

 

 

Does anyone else feal this way?  I would be intrested in what other people think on the matter.

 

 

Thanks

 

KTFO|SGTmoody

[Jamdude]

I much prefer having the large Enter key, the left shift doesn't need to be any bigger than it is.

[brownninja97]

I prefer the uk style, the enter button must be big and the |||| is easier for me to reach near z.

[CatCloud]

Agree, i like the bigger "enter" keys more, but man one thing i hate about this keyboard (2012 version) is the macros keys, they are way to close to the left side i keep pressing wrong, one of the reason why i don't use mine anymore, its mostly a Backup and i only used it for 1 week.

Edit: Ok the one on the picture above is the 2012, and i own that one, the 2013 has green lights.

[KTFO|SGTmoody]

I thought that first about the macro keys. and to start of with i kept hitting th M1 key insted of esc but after a few weeks of constent use i got use to where it had moved.  The problam there whas I run my had up the keyboad to find the enter key so i dont have to look at what im doing

[Oshino Shinobu]

I'm not entirely sure which I prefer. My laptop has the US layout, and my keyboards for my desktop have the UK layout. I often get messed up with where the '@' and " symbols are. 

[Antistatic12]

second one for sure, actually I had that for a while until I upgraded.

[needmorewood]

nah id rather have the longer shift then the massive neter key

[Paralectic]

I don't really mind as long as my left shift is placed correctly, and also the backspace button.

[SirRoderick]

Gimme ISO style big enter key anyday. I never miss the shift at all, so no need to have it extended for me. But a big chunky ENTER to smash is so satisfying :3

[Toby]

Page 3 amazon review confirmed this comes in an ISO layout despite the ANSI display picture.

 

A lot of the time UK vendors will just use images of the US ANSI version of a keyboard despite actually selling the ISO one. It's infuriating.

[LogicalDrm]

I don't really mind it. Its same with going from full size to laptop. Just learning it again. I feel that having short backspace would be deal breaker for me.