[nycbug-talk] Laptop recommendations

[Ray Lai]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 03:00:17PM -0500, Isaac Levy wrote:
> Thanks Marco,
> 
> On Jan 23, 2006, at 2:57 PM, Marco Scoffier wrote:
> 
> >>Just wondering, as I haven't touched a thinkpad for more than a few
> >>minutes, why are the powerbook keyboards totally useless?
> >>
> >You can't make the caps lock function as a ctrl key.  This is in the
> >hardware.
> 
> Interesting.  Is this common practice for folks?  (I simply got an  
> ergo-keyboard long ago for my desk, pinkie-cramps from control-key  
> crunches...)

I remap the caps lock to a control key.  It makes controlling easier,
but doing too much ctrl-anything is tiring.

I wouldn't say that not having a caps lock as control makes a
keyboard totally useless, though.

-Ray-