Ian Pilcher:
Just when you think that laptop manufacturers couldn't go any farther off the rails, Lenovo has apparently decided that physical keyboard status LEDs are just too darn expensive.
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if you consider the oem cost for an led and associated circuit cost $0.10 and they build runs of 10,000 of said laptop, they would save $1,000 per run.
I'd rather my laptop cost 10 cents more and had useful LEDs.
In fact, I'd rather that *all* keyboards had useful LEDs. Put the damn caps lock LED next to the caps lock key, or preferably in it (as my old Amiga did). Likewise, for num lock.