Around 2009, Dell (along with Apple and others) made a controversial design choice that sparked an outcry among long-time PC users. They began shipping laptops where the "multimedia" functions—like volume, brightness, and Wi-Fi toggles—were the behavior of the top-row keys. To use a traditional function like F5 , you suddenly had to hold down the blue Fn key as well.
Inside Dell’s design team, two factions fought (symbolically): unlock function key dell laptop
Arthur slumped back in his chair, exhausted. He had conquered the machine. He had traversed the BIOS. He had unlocked the function keys. He was ready to write his masterpiece. Around 2009, Dell (along with Apple and others)