Please, please, function keys on the left! Nobody's interested in them anymore--but they're still useful for some of us. I can reliably touch-type function keys on the left, I can't with the ones above the keyboard, and when they need to be in combination with other keys also it's even more of an issue.
I have never seen a keyboard as good as the old Northgate Omnikey Ultra. Please resurrect the king!
The average user has little need of function keys. The guys who use keyboards a lot (which is probably the majority of people who will seek out and pay the price for mechanical keyboards) often use software that has stuff mapped to those function keys.
I have never seen a keyboard as good as the old Northgate Omnikey Ultra. Please resurrect the king!