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Compared to my Thinkpad, the keyboard sucks. There's no nice way to put it. I want back the key feel of my Thinkpad.


The new macs and the new wireless keyboards all have that same chicklet kind of keyboard, right?

I got one of those super-tiny-mini wireless keyboards for my Mac Mini hooked up to the TV set, because it takes up so much less space on the coffee table than the prior one did. I agree the chicklet keys aren't that great in terms of the feel. If it were my main axe, that keyboard would quickly frustrate me. It's OK for using for the TV set though.

I think the reason the chicklet keys suck is:

- They could have made the keys bigger (i.e., the keys could all touch each other like a normal keyboard does) but they didn't.

- They don't have scooped tops like normal laptop/desktop keyboards have. They have flat tops. This feels funny, and the subtle cues that your fingertips pick up from the scooped tops on normal keyboards just aren't there. So you feel like your hands are just floating in air and you're guessing at where your fingers have to come down instead of feeling it.

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Tony Fabris