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It's not just looks - newer keys likely use less plastic, because the market is inevitably obsessed with cost-shaving. Less plastic -> increased fragility -> mo
by toyg 5y ago
It's not just looks - newer keys likely use less plastic, because the market is inevitably obsessed with cost-shaving. Less plastic -> increased fragility -> more faults.
- zozbot234 5y agoThe market is even more obsessed with shaving thickness, and the keyboard must typically sit above the mainboard, heatsinks, speakers etc. which leads to ultra-thin designs for that part. There's no way to make that properly ergonomic, the best you can do is let users cope with a "low travel" design that still provides some feedback to the fingers.
- Joeri 5y agoI had a 2015 thinkpad, and even on that model the keycaps were so thin that two keys split in half due to normal use after 5 years. They were so thin that I couldn’t glue them together, and lenovo as it turns out will not sell you replacement keycaps, only replacement keyboards. Luckily there are third parties which sell the keycaps.