Hey, thanks for the reply. I'm planning on getting one by the next months, when a relative of mine will come visit from the U.S. Fortunately, I don't really use the function keys, maybe twice a week I'll hit one F-key that I mapped out to perform a calculation, but other than that, I have it all mapped out to the regular rows. I took typing in high school, so long ago that it was on an electric typewriter, meaning it had to f-keys - I think it was 1993. So I never memorized the f-keys, so I always got around to not using them. Just one more thing: do you have the regular keyboard, or the one with the linear key switches?