Where’s the peanut butter?!

I don’t know why this is so but it’s endemic amongst laptop makers
that they redefine keyboard layouts in completely bogus ways. I just
got an M4 tablet for work and its default bottom row key ordering
goes: (correct) (stupid)
(unacceptable) <`~> (unacceptable) (correct).
Then the Windows key is hidden up on the upper right area of the
keyboard. Why, Toshiba, why?

• Why do you put so close to the crucial keys every
  computer user has to use? Why don’t you bury it up in some remote
  corner? I will naturally look for when I need it (since it
  is a non-standard key), so leave my standard key layout alone.
• Why did you move away from ? They are
  close friends who do not want to be separated.
• If you can’t put <`~> in the upper left corner, where it
  belongs, does Occam’s razor not dictate that the preferable solution
  would be “move it to the upper right corner” - not “move it down next
  to the spacebar and move the Windows key up to the upper right
  corner”?

It seems like the challenges to laying out a laptop keyboard are to
shuffle some keys (because of the smaller form factor) and to
introduce the key somewhere (because it is
non-standard). But hardware manufacturers reliably complicate matters
by moving other things around that make no sense to move.

Fortunately you can hack the registry to fix the scancodes or use href="http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/">KeyTweak which is
considerably easier to remap your layout. I now have my left
and keys where I want them, <`~> out
of my way, and and swapped like I like. But
I wish I didn’t have to go through the bother.