Lenovo: more Del and Esc
After a year of research, specialists from Lenovo came to the conclusion that users quite often - about 700 times a week - press the delete and cancel keys (Delete and Escape), and came to the conclusion that the standard size used so far for such “popular” keys insufficient. The result can be seen in a ThinkPad T400s laptop, where the height of Del and Esc is doubled compared with the height of alphanumeric keys. According to Lenovo, this way it will be more convenient to perform undo and delete operations.
It is assumed that the next “victim of rethinking the keyboard” could be the Caps Lock key. In fact, the period of its active use remained in the days of mechanical typewriters, when printing the title in large letters was almost the only way to distinguish it from the general typewritten text. Now Caps Lock interferes more often than it is used, especially being accidentally pressed when entering a password, and, moreover, is usually accompanied by a separate LED indicator.
It is assumed that the next “victim of rethinking the keyboard” could be the Caps Lock key. In fact, the period of its active use remained in the days of mechanical typewriters, when printing the title in large letters was almost the only way to distinguish it from the general typewritten text. Now Caps Lock interferes more often than it is used, especially being accidentally pressed when entering a password, and, moreover, is usually accompanied by a separate LED indicator.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/63255/
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