Try touch typing on this 2 May 2008

Surely this is a joke...The keyboard above belongs to the brand new Dell Vostro 1310 laptop (UK edition). Now take a moment to study it and then tell me what's wrong with this picture?

Give up? It isn't obvious to the naked eye, but if you were to try typing on it, you'd run into all manner of problems. You see, the entire bottom row of letters (Z, X, C...) has been shifted one key over to the right (That is, on a standard keyboard, Z sits between A and S, not S and D, and so on). This keyboard is therefore completely unusable for anyone with touch-typing skills - and appears to demonstrate that that Dell failed to put this product through any user testing whatsoever (since asking a single touch-typist to type a single sentence would have revealed this monumental flaw).

For more photos and analysis, see Jake Gordon's Flickr photostream...