The final implementations (8 and 10) is the same as the pre-2020 Razer Blade laptop’s keyboard layout, and it was hated so much that Razer decides to remove it this year. This way of making space for standard arrow keys has two major issues:
- People who use the right shift cannot accept having a different key in the spot where the shift key should be. Even left shift users find it annoying.
- The HHKB layout is designed with aesthetics and symmetry in mind, so the majority of users of this layout would not want a cluster of 1u keys on the right.
Apart from the issues above, having various layout options is always a welcome feature right? I’m not a HHKB kind of guy, but I love to see layouts 2 and 4 to be available for a HHKB pcb.