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Re:Differentiating laptops: How about a decent keyboard? (2015) by dzhiurgis on Sunday July 02, 2017 @10:29PM (#14685507)
Useless, but keyboard itself is amazing.

It's like 10 years ago when first MacBooks came out with chiclet keys, while all other manufacturers used previous design (most of them finally shifted to chiclet by now). Typing on a regular laptop now feels like masochism.

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Re:Differentiating laptops: How about a decent keyboard? (2015) by MagnumOpus on Monday July 03, 2017 @04:03AM (#14686664)
Chiclet is cheap. That is literally the only reason other manufacturers followed.

As to your strange preferences, I cannot understand them. Buckling spring keyboards are far more tactile and I resent that I cannot get them on "premium" products any more.

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Re:Differentiating laptops: How about a decent keyboard? (2015) by FireBeyond on Sunday July 02, 2017 @11:40PM (#14685689)
Yeah, that's entirely subjective, both myself and my girlfriend _vastly_ prefer the keyboard on my XPS 9560 versus her Macbook.
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Re:Differentiating laptops: How about a decent keyboard? (2015) by dzhiurgis on Monday July 03, 2017 @03:52AM (#14686610)
If you comparing with The Original MacBook (12") then yeah, that keyboard sucks.
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