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You know what I would love to see? The mechanical keyboard community get a hold of this. Actually, what would be kinda cool and a bit more "practical" (in a si

You know what I would love to see? The mechanical keyboard community get a hold of this. Actually, what would be kinda cool and a bit more "practical" (in a since, at least) would be an option without any keyboard at all (plain aluminum or like plexiglass or acrylic or something) so I can use my own keyboard. I know from experience my Planck or Atreus fit on top of a normal laptop keyboard footprint, but I always feel so weird putting a mechanical keyboard on top of a laptop keyboard, damaging something or another. Actually, I'm off to go through that into the community forum

keawade 5y ago
I think it will likely take significant modification to fit a mech keeb in the laptop as is. [I asked about the stock keyboard dimensions and was told the module is 3.8mm thick](https://community.frame.work/t/the-keyboard/155/5 https://community.frame.work/t/the-keyboard/155/5) which doesn't leave enough room for low profile mechanical keyboard switches that are all ~8mm thick without accounting for caps. That said, I'm right there with you hoping to see some cool mech keeb work around these laptops!
- MrStonedOne 5y ago
  they want the ability to use it as an external keyboard, by just setting it on top of the existing keyboard, then removing it when they need to close the laptop. they don't want to do this now, because they worry about damaging something by doing so. So they want the laptop to have a blank cover where the keyboard normally is, so they have somewhere to put their mech keyboard while they use the laptop.
horsellama 5y ago
I’d buy immediately a module with a blank 60% ortholinear layout (possibly with QMK support)
benhurmarcel 5y ago
There isn’t the thickness necessary for mechanical switches. What I’d love is to see some ergonomic layouts, kind of like Corne or Kyria (staggered columns and thumb cluster).
phreeza 5y ago
You might be interested in the MNT reform: https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2020-05-08-the-much-more-personal-computer.html https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2020-05-08-the-much-more-p...

keawade 5y ago

I think it will likely take significant modification to fit a mech keeb in the laptop as is. [I asked about the stock keyboard dimensions and was told the module is 3.8mm thick](https://community.frame.work/t/the-keyboard/155/5 https://community.frame.work/t/the-keyboard/155/5) which doesn't leave enough room for low profile mechanical keyboard switches that are all ~8mm thick without accounting for caps. That said, I'm right there with you hoping to see some cool mech keeb work around these laptops!

MrStonedOne 5y ago
they want the ability to use it as an external keyboard, by just setting it on top of the existing keyboard, then removing it when they need to close the laptop. they don't want to do this now, because they worry about damaging something by doing so. So they want the laptop to have a blank cover where the keyboard normally is, so they have somewhere to put their mech keyboard while they use the laptop.

horsellama 5y ago

I’d buy immediately a module with a blank 60% ortholinear layout (possibly with QMK support)

benhurmarcel 5y ago

There isn’t the thickness necessary for mechanical switches. What I’d love is to see some ergonomic layouts, kind of like Corne or Kyria (staggered columns and thumb cluster).

phreeza 5y ago

You might be interested in the MNT reform: https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2020-05-08-the-much-more-personal-computer.html https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2020-05-08-the-much-more-p...