Too bad, too late!

I bought the HP Mini 1000 instead.

<< I personally use the left shift key more than the right one so this doesn’t bother me much, but it drives some people crazy. >>>

Brad, you make it sound like it's a *choice* whether people use left shift keys vs right shift keys, but it isn't. Having a small right shift key slows down the fastest touch typers

In typing class, when learning to touch type (which is defined as typing at high speeds without looking at the keyboard, and using all fingers to type, not just index fingers) they teach you that when you want to capitalize letters on the *left* side of the keyboard, you must use the right shift key. Likewise, if you want to capitalize letters on the *right* side of the keyboard, you must use the left shift key.

My #1 reason for not owning an Asus 1000H is because of the small right shift key. Statistically, 50% of letters on the left side of the keyboard which need to be capitalized cannot properly because a typist cannot find the right shift key.

So, it is not a matter of preference of whether you use left vs right shift key; rather, it is out of necessity that the shift keys be normal sized.

Anyone who claims that it doesn't matter that the right shift key is small is all right, that they'll use the left shift key…….are obviously hunt and peck typists who use their index fingers and need to look at the keyboard when typing.

Or instead of providing a small accommodation by way of a midget-sized right shift key, Asus could just get with the program and blatantly copy the keyboard layouts of the two most critically acclaimed keyboards in the netbook market: the Samsung NC10 and the HP Mini 1000. ….Duh.

I'm with Brad. I touch-type 100 wpm and took typing classes in grade school, but I never use the right shift key. I don't know when I picked up this habit, but it was well over a decade before I became aware of it just a few months ago, while reading about the 1000H on this very blog. When I read about its small right shift key and its consequences for those who used it, I had to look down at my keyboard to confirm that a right shift key even existed; the thought of using it had never crossed my mind. Turns out I use my left ring finger to type a capital Q, A, and Z, and use my right index finger to type a capital B. It (obviously) feels perfectly natural to me, and I rather doubt that the time I would save over the course of my life by using the right shift key would outweigh the time I would lose in adjusting to it.

I've since heard from friends who use the right shift key exclusively; just goes to show that different typing styles and preferences can exist even among touch-typists.

Help! Just purchased a new Asus PC w/ Asus keyboard. I cannot get sound by depressing keys on far right. Have ck'd and speakers are hooked up correctly. What am I not seeing???? thnks a bunch!