Not just swappable, but in a lot of corporate laptops with a locked down CMOS, the swappability is still one of the shortcuts that a user level user can change in the BIOS.
I thought Ctrl being in the right place on the new keyboard would be nice - sadly it seems to be the worst Thinkpad keyboard I've ever used... not even sure why, but all the spacing just seems slightly but very noticeably wrong.