>Basically most new (last 4 years) laptops have marginal keyboards and
>seemed to be
>designed to die shortly after their (usually short) warranty runs out.
Isn't that most keyboards? I've gotten a couple new PC keyboards in the
last 2-3 years, both have been tossed, and I'm using a 10 year old
101-keyboard with them. My new PowerMac G4/450 is the same way, toss both
the keyboard and mouse, and am using an ADB Apple Extended Keyboard II and
ADB Mouse II via a ADB-to-USB converter.
I've been buying laptops since '87, when I was in the Navy, that's normally
all I had room for. The Kaypro 2000 I got in '87 had the best keyboard.
The Twinhead in '90 really sucked, so did the P90 in '95, the Apple
PowerBook 520c, also in '95 was the best I've gotten since the Twinhead.
I've since replaced that with the PowerBook 540c as the 520c screen died,
and it was cheaper to get the 540c with an Active Matrix screen than it was
to get a replacement for the 520c's Passive Matrix screen, anyway the 540c
has the same decent keyboard.
One nice feature I've not seen since the Kaypro and Twinhead is the
detachable keyboard, of course only the Kaypro had true keys.
Gotta agree about the comment on the early Toshiba's, at least the T5200
and prior all had great keyboards!
Zane
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Received on Sun Feb 20 2000 - 15:02:19 GMT