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Offline Surly73

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Laptop keyboard upgrades?
« on: Thu, 15 March 2012, 21:52:48 »
I know that it may sound kind of goofy, but I was wondering if anyone knew of any sites that track potential laptop keyboard upgrades.  By this I mean where a company has part#s which fit multiple models of laptops, but some of the keyboards are better than others.  I recall a few years back IBM would put boards with nicer switches and doubleshots in their top "p" models of desktop replacement systems.  

My dad has a T60p I believe where this is the case, and I believe that the board is swappable with other T models (or at last variants within the T60 line) that were it's brothers and sisters at the time of production.

I have an HP 6910p that I use casually around the house, but the keyboard totally blows.  I feel that it might be the worst laptop/scissor board I've ever used. If there was another HP Elitebook or similar keyboard which was interchangeable and superior I might check around for such a thing.

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Laptop keyboard upgrades?
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 15 March 2012, 23:20:02 »
Quote from: Surly73;547291
I know that it may sound kind of goofy, but I was wondering if anyone knew of any sites that track potential laptop keyboard upgrades.  By this I mean where a company has part#s which fit multiple models of laptops, but some of the keyboards are better than others.  I recall a few years back IBM would put boards with nicer switches and doubleshots in their top "p" models of desktop replacement systems.  

My dad has a T60p I believe where this is the case, and I believe that the board is swappable with other T models (or at last variants within the T60 line) that were it's brothers and sisters at the time of production.

I have an HP 6910p that I use casually around the house, but the keyboard totally blows.  I feel that it might be the worst laptop/scissor board I've ever used. If there was another HP Elitebook or similar keyboard which was interchangeable and superior I might check around for such a thing.

n0p,, asus is the only one with fairly standard keyboards on the gaming models.