Lenovo has put a year into its research into two design changes that has been debuted on the updated ThinkPad laptop this week. It may seem like a small change. Computers are getting smaller and faster but the keyboard design remains the same. Yup! I noticed that now too! Lenovo is on a more conservative course. In designing the new ThinkPad, it installed keystroke-tracking software on about 30 employees' computers. On average, they used the "Escape" and "Delete" keys 700 times per week. Lenovo made those two keys about twice as long in the vertical direction to fit the way people reach up, rather than to the side. The new design cuts down on accidental taps of the "End" and "Insert" keys, too. interesting isn’t it!

[Physorg]