On 2020-09-29 Bradford Vokey wrote:
Wow. I remember you telling me about this before, so I researched, researched, and researched and found the G17 has *almost* a full normal keyboard with a fairly good numeric keypad. And you are right. I use the numeric keypad ALL THE TIME. Only the pageup/down, home/end, and delete/insert keys were rearranged and combined on the G17, so I thought I could live with that. But once I got it, whoa - tons of the "keycaps" have been replaced with bilingual character ones - which are not at all in the product photos on the Best Buy website. Bah! What a stupid way to clutter up the look of a perfectly good keyboard.
You didn't walk into the store to peek at the display unit to see the kb? Isn't that the point of brick & mortar?
Well, as long as there isn't a key between the quote and enter key, you should be fine -- that's the big killer. You can always take a black marker to all the weird symbols on the keycaps :-)
P.S. I look forward to the Brad v Gilbert Bartertown cage match at the next physical meeting! Don't let him get the chainsaw!
;-)
P.P.S. who wants to take odds on the over/under on when this thing gets dropped in the pool or river or rained on?