I've Gone Metro
Much to my surprise, someone gifted me a brand new laptop yesterday. I can't find a model number on this thing anywhere, but it's an HP Envy with Beats audio, a 1 TB HDD, 12gigs of ram, an i7 Intel processor and Windows 8.1. It also boasts a 17" screen and backlit keyboard. Since my previous laptop was about 5 years old, the specs upgrade is welcome. My "old" laptop is also an HP, a 15.6" with an AMD 2.2gig quad core processor, 500gig HDD and 6 gigs of ram, upgradeable to eight. Likes Brand spanking new. Dislikes While the keyboard is backlit (which is a feature I've been wanting for a while) the keyboard layout is ridiculous. The left shift key is so far away I cane barely reach it, instead \i keep hitting the "\" whenever \i\'m typing. As someone who types all day long, this is very annoying. Yes, I'm aware that I just need to create new habits, new muscle memory for the smaller, further away shift button, but \i really ...