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What I find painful in modern laptops are the crap chiclet keyboard layouts. Why can't we just have a classic, compressed keyboard like on the thinkpad t420 or
by Zelmor 10y ago
What I find painful in modern laptops are the crap chiclet keyboard layouts. Why can't we just have a classic, compressed keyboard like on the thinkpad t420 or x220? I get cramps from the keyboard of my dell e5570 I have from the workplace, I started using external keyboards 2 days after starting on it.
Here's hoping for a retro thinkpad next year. Until then, I'll hold onto my money or just invest in an ergodox keyboard.
- pgaddict 10y agoExactly this is why I still keep my T420s. Also, the new lenovos tend to have absolutely terrible touchpads that move (tilt instead of having proper buttons) etc.
- replax 10y agoI use a well specced out Dell E6440 at work (i7-4610, 16GB ram, 512GB SSD, 1080p IPS screen) and it does have a classic non chiclet keyboard. Besides the weight and size of it due to the integrated DVD drive it found it to be an amazing machine with a great keyboad. Personally I still use a ThinkPad X220 and I would not consider the Dell's keyboard significantly worse (I prefer the key placement of the page up/down keys etc of the X220 though).
- veddox 10y agoI never understood why people didn't like chiclet keyboards until I recently bought a T420. Now, I don't want to go back ;-)