You know the irony of this? It is that it's people like the original poster who see Insert as a "useless key" that led the geniuses in the keyboard department to view this as yet another key that can be eliminated to make the keyboard more "sexy-looking". It's hardly used, so we can just assign it as a secondary function, right? Except, oops, we implemented it poorly, and now you cannot use standard function keys and the far more useful End key at the same time. 
dr_st wrote:You know the irony of this? It is that it's people like the original poster who see Insert as a "useless key" that led the geniuses in the keyboard department to view this as yet another key that can be eliminated to make the keyboard more "sexy-looking". It's hardly used, so we can just assign it as a secondary function, right? Except, oops, we implemented it poorly, and now you cannot use standard function keys and the far more useful End key at the same time.
Meh, you can try to pin this one on "people like me", but that's misguided and helps no one. I "upgraded" from an X201, which had the full/original/real-keyboard 6-key layout for these special keys, which I vastly prefer. In fact, so far, and almost across the board, my X201 leaves this upgrade in the dust.
Redesigning keyboards is never done for the benefit of hardcore users. Get a real argument.
I'm not blaming it on you. I just found it ironic.
Apologies if it felt like I was attacking you. I am on your side. Like you, I hate the changes to the keyboard. I hated them enough on the X230, that I simply lost interest. To you, the clumsy implementation of the Ins/End shared key on the X240 is a dealbreaker. Do me the dealbreaker happened on the previous redesign, so this one makes no difference to me.
And you thought you hated the X240 keyboard. Look at the "adaptive keyboard" on the new X1 Carbon just announced at CES. Gotta innovate for the post PC era. That pesky Fn key row is so 90's.
In action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgkB6T6LrhQ
