HP Mini: (Missing Keys) No PgUp Home or End, Never Buy HP Again !

Q:
Guess who caused me several hours of necessary work this week, and possibly more to come ?
A:
The utter geniuses at HP, who designed a "netbook", without the keys that people use most on the net !
The provided shortcut hotkeys ( fn + arrow ) for those functions simply dont work, or rather they ONLY work on the least secure, poorest designed operating system ever, Microsoft Windows. Maybe you collaborated ? Probably.
So those of us who use a mac / unix / linux variant ( ie secure OS) on your netbook are just out of luck.
IT TAKES SPECIAL DRIVERS TO USE YOUR PROPRIETARY HOTKEYS !!!!!!!!!!!
(Just go with the standard keyboard keys, they will be future proof.)
So to use your netbooks, means thousands and thousands of unnecessary key presses and mouse clicks.
The extra strain I feel in my fingers is fast turning to a seething dislike of your design team.
I got to get one of these for free, only to find out that it was lacking vital functions... the boss didnt check to see if these netbooks worked or not.
So you basically STOLE my chance at having a working netbook, as if you had broken into my house and took it. Why would I feel this way? Because this HP mini is only fit for the garbage dump with the inconvenient and frustrating keyboard.
I will only throw it away / give it away ( to someone I dont like ).
Conclusion:
FULL KEYBOARD
Thanks for your time.

Romeo, see this thread and specifically the post from Cyclops:
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware/PgUp-PgDn-Home-and-End/m-p/410167
There's a zip file there with a little piece of software that gives you:
page-up : control + up key combo
page down : control + down key combo
home : control + left key combo
end : control + right key combo
It definitely works - I now use it - and although it's not the perfect solution (you have to run it each time you start up your computer) it is certainly VERY good to have these keys!

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