In Canada, you can buy some computers with different keyboard layouts: US Standard, Canadian Multilingual, Canadian French.  When I ordered the MSI Wind netbook I wasn’t aware of the choices and accidentally picked up the Canadian French version.  The problem is I am used to the US Standard keyboard layout, I use it at work and on my iMac.  This makes using the MSI Wind netbook difficult and a bit annoying.  This is of course compounded by the fact that the keyboard on the MSI Wind netbook is a little bit smaller than the regular size keyboards.  I was often frustrated when using the MSI Wind netbook, my typing speed was halved and my typos were doubled.

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