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I think a lot of keyboard preferences come from habits. I'm a bit of a thinkpad addict, mainly because of the excellent track-point, but also for thier good ke

I think a lot of keyboard preferences come from habits. I'm a bit of a thinkpad addict, mainly because of the excellent track-point, but also for thier good keyboards, or so I thought: I've been using my current x220 for 4 or 5 years and cannot replace it right now. I'm a vim user and sure enough, the escape key was the first (and for now only) to go. It's completely gone, all there is instead is a piece of circuit board, but it actually works if you touch it. Well, I've been using it like this for a couple of weeks now, got used to it, and it's not as bad as I thought it would be, now I think that I could actually use a "touch" keyboard with no keys.

mindslight 11y ago
I replaced my Lenovo T60 keyboard something like 5 times within the 3-year warranty period. Half the keys would stop working intermittently, and flexing the board up in the middle would make it temporarily mostly work. Also replaced the AC adapter like 6 times for insufficient strain relief (one of those times the replacement 2-prong had so much leakage current they asked me to send it to their engineering department and upgraded me to the 3-prong CE version). And lest you think I'm just into laptop sports, my previous IBM T22 had 0 keyboard and maybe 1 AC adapter replacement over its 5-year life and I was actually more mobile with it. If you get sick of your psuedotouch esc, you should be able to find a replacement X220 keyboard for maybe $40/$80 (used/new) and it's one of the easiest parts to swap. Also, I can't express how happy I'll be when this shortscreen fad is over.