I am glad to learn that I am not crazy. I also find the Compaq to be a bit noisier. That said, the keyboard itself is very nice to type on. The one thing that prevents me from using this keyboard more often is the layout. It may get a bit more time now that I found that it seats nicely on one of my laptops, the one I used to connect to work from time to time. I just wish they had the left and rigt click buttons side by side, instead of top and bottom.