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In a pursuit of saving even more money, I noticed a lot of T14 ThinkPads have missing/broken keys. Replacement keyboard is $20 and a few minutes of work. Worth
by frantathefranta 5mo ago
In a pursuit of saving even more money, I noticed a lot of T14 ThinkPads have missing/broken keys. Replacement keyboard is $20 and a few minutes of work. Worth about a $50-$100 discount.
- neilv 5mo agoIf you buy replacement laptop keyboards, be sure to test them promptly, not just stockpile them as spares. I started to see some poor-quality 'genuine' replacement ThinkPad keyboards. Bad action, bad fit of assembly with keycap catching on bezel, etc. I considered it not-unlikely that no more good ones would be made, since Lenovo had stopped selling laptops that used that part. So I stockpiled some good ones while I could, by sampling from a diversity of sellers. I wound up with 3 good spares, and 2 bad.