They made 1 chassis and tbis how they can facilitate both the L shape and horzintal shape enter key without creation 2 different versions with different key cutouts.
epileftric
Is that a Lenovo Legion?
brightness3
It’s to make it even easier to hit backslash accidentally when you send a message
StuE2
I had a keyboard with that layout once. I lasted about 10 minutes with it. Got so used to a full height key that it drove me mad!
Cutting costs for ANSI / ISO layouts basically by making one chassis and swapping only the keyboards.
Silver-Spy
I thought it was to mimic classic enter key’s L shape
TorturedPoet03
It’s only one chassis. They can switch between this and the L shape. I would expect more from them.
Rude_Champ93
Most likely the chassis for the keyboard is standardized but some keyboard layouts require an L shape enter key. Even with just a basic rectangle design for the enter key, it would be more cost efficient to keep the standard chassis and just adjust the buttons from there. So they added the little bit of extra to the slash key to fill in the gap
Tarc_Axiiom
There are ***FOUR(!)*** different types of “ENTER/RETURN” key, 3 of them suck (lol). [Here](https://i.sstatic.net/fdTSm.png)’s an image with all of them.
This specific keyboard chassis is designed to facilitate forms 1 and 4 from that image, so they cut the hole once and instead made the backslash key a little longer. The plastic on the keycover is cheaper than printing two different chassies.
All my homies only use ANSI, the other ones are bleh!
GrayMalchin
Legacy issue. The enter, return key was much larger, mimicking some typewriters.
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They made 1 chassis and tbis how they can facilitate both the L shape and horzintal shape enter key without creation 2 different versions with different key cutouts.
Is that a Lenovo Legion?
It’s to make it even easier to hit backslash accidentally when you send a message
I had a keyboard with that layout once.
I lasted about 10 minutes with it.
Got so used to a full height key that it drove me mad!
Some countries’ keyboards [have a vertical enter key](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41x1iT10h9L._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_FMwebp_.jpg) so they make the cutout fit both types.
Cutting costs for ANSI / ISO layouts basically by making one chassis and swapping only the keyboards.
I thought it was to mimic classic enter key’s L shape
It’s only one chassis. They can switch between this and the L shape. I would expect more from them.
Most likely the chassis for the keyboard is standardized but some keyboard layouts require an L shape enter key. Even with just a basic rectangle design for the enter key, it would be more cost efficient to keep the standard chassis and just adjust the buttons from there. So they added the little bit of extra to the slash key to fill in the gap
There are ***FOUR(!)*** different types of “ENTER/RETURN” key, 3 of them suck (lol). [Here](https://i.sstatic.net/fdTSm.png)’s an image with all of them.
This specific keyboard chassis is designed to facilitate forms 1 and 4 from that image, so they cut the hole once and instead made the backslash key a little longer. The plastic on the keycover is cheaper than printing two different chassies.
All my homies only use ANSI, the other ones are bleh!
Legacy issue. The enter, return key was much larger, mimicking some typewriters.