Does Your PC Really Need a SysRq Button Anymore?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 14, 2010 @03:00AM from the i-don't-even-use-vowels dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ever wondered what the SysRq key on your keyboard does? Lenovo has decided it's so rarely used that it has started removing the key from some new Thinkpad Edge laptops. We already know that Lenovo are something of the fastidious scientists when it comes to keyboard design. Last time they fiddled with the age-old key layout, it was after painstaking research to count exactly how many times users press the Delete and Escape keys. Now it seems another relic of computer keyboards is starting to disappear."

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Re:Print Screen by bustamelon · 2010-01-14 03:20 · Score: 0, Offtopic

ditto
Re:Probably not. by mwvdlee · 2010-01-14 05:32 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You could remove that WinMenu key too (not the Win key, the one next to the right-hand Win key). The only time I touch it, is when I accidentally miss the Ctrl or Win keys next to it.
As for new keys... How about Undo and Redo keys? Perhaps dedicated Cut/Copy/Paste keys? For Windows specifically, Minimize and Maximize keys I might use.

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