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0 pointsblackhaz6y ago0 comments

Thin laptops do suck. Give us ports and keyboards! Is there a single instance of high-quality laptop on the market with a generous key travel these days? Thinkpads don't quite reach the feel of MBP 2015 keyboard for me.

(Typing this on a 101-key NMB I restored which, I think, is close to typing nirvana.)

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mcv6y ago· 3 in thread

> "Thinkpads don't quite reach the feel of MBP 2015 keyboard for me."

They don't? I was under the impression that Thinkpads generally had the best keyboards. They get praised for it all the time. Are current Thinkpad keyboards actually worse than 2015 Macbook ones?

Are keyboards a piece of technology that's getting worse instead of better as time goes on?

criddell6y ago

It's super subjective.

I have two Thinkpads that I use frequently. One is a T520 with the traditional Thinkpad keyboard and the other is a Yoga S1 with the island keys. I prefer the newer keyboard (island or chiclet keys) by a mile.

I ended up looking for a similar desktop keyboard and ended up with the Logitech K750.

bitwize6y ago

ThinkPads have better keyboards than most, but Lenovo decided to join the chiclet camp a few years back and the recent keyboards haven't been as good as ThinkPads from eight or ten years ago.

mcv6y ago

Is it just the chiclet form? I thought it was mostly the technology underneath the key: the travel, resistance, etc, that matters. Those can still be good or bad regardless of the shape of the keys themselves.

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