Looks rather nice actually; the keyboard is different because it's a larger format I guess.
They have the same layour on their 15.6" laptops. Small return key, \ above it. Not sure what else they've done to it. I normally use my pinky for the return key, and it always lands just over half-way up - which would be the \ key on the Lenovo.
Also the Gefrock 740M is about 10% slower than the 650M in my old one, and the screen is higher res so I reckon I'd really notice the difference in the two :(
There's absolutely no need for the left shift key to be so large.
Is that a US layout or something?
I believe the technical term is "bloody fucking stupid".
You just can't handle a real keyboard.
Samsung seem to do the silly left shift/return thing on their US layours, but UK layouts appear to be normal (from a quick google image search).
Lenovo US and UK are both wack.
Are all your keyboards like that?
Not all of them. My dell laptop has both shift keys full sized.