[ale] OT Asus laptop stinkin' key legends coming off the stinkin' keys

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 16:27:19 EDT 2012


RSTLNE, anyone?


On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 15:19, Ron Frazier (ALE)
<atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com> wrote:
> N is one of the most heavily used characters in our language.  Those
> used most heavily will, all other things being equal, wear out first.  E
> and A are the kings of the usage hill.  Curiously, on my keyboard, E is
> fading, but A is not. So, there much be some variation in the quality of
> the paint.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
>
> On 3/20/2012 2:45 PM, Pete Hardie wrote:
>> Curiously, my 'N' is one of the fading ones as well.  Says something
>> about our word choice, perhaps.
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 14:30, Lightner, Jeff<JLightner at water.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> I’m seeing the degradation on my Dell D650 laptop but so far it mainly
>>> affects the N key for no reason I can figure out.  However, that is after
>>> 2-3 years of use.   At 9 months I’d have to say ASUS is the issue.
>>>
>>
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