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Offline againer

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New Lenovo Laptop with Mechanical Keyboard
« on: Wed, 27 January 2016, 12:05:37 »
When I was surfing around I found this.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3018914/hardware/lenovos-latest-laptop-is-a-10-pound-powerhouse-with-a-mechanical-keyboard.html
Does anybody know what switches are in this laptop?
I hope that there will be some buisness laptops with mechanical switches soon. Then I would not have to carry around the 60% keyboards with my laptop.

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Re: New Lenovo Laptop with Mechanical Keyboard
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 27 January 2016, 12:47:45 »
Check /r/MK.  Somebody posted pics of the switches
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Re: New Lenovo Laptop with Mechanical Keyboard
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 27 January 2016, 14:55:40 »
It's a new switch made by TTC (the company, that currently makes microswitches for some cheaper mice).
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Re: New Lenovo Laptop with Mechanical Keyboard
« Reply #3 on: Wed, 27 January 2016, 15:08:44 »
Very intriguing, I'd love to try out those switches. Current lenovo ThinkPad keyboards are very good with great feel compared to any other laptop keyboard I've tried, so I'm itching to know how well this mech laptop keyboard compares with standard mech gaming keyboards wrt tactility and key travel.
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Re: New Lenovo Laptop with Mechanical Keyboard
« Reply #4 on: Sun, 31 January 2016, 16:59:37 »
Looks interesting, but I do find that scissor-switch/rubber domes are best suited when there is a very short key travel. I'm curious as to how it feels and sounds.

I have a T450s and the keyboard is quite good, although I wish that the keys weren't glossy but instead textured (like they were in all the photos on their website!). Turns out non-backlit get textured keycaps while backlit gets glossy.
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Re: New Lenovo Laptop with Mechanical Keyboard
« Reply #5 on: Sun, 31 January 2016, 18:05:36 »
They should put that in the new retina MacBook Pro
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Re: New Lenovo Laptop with Mechanical Keyboard
« Reply #6 on: Fri, 19 February 2016, 23:46:23 »
Quote from: Altis on Sun, 31 January 2016, 16:59:37
Looks interesting, but I do find that scissor-switch/rubber domes are best suited when there is a very short key travel. I'm curious as to how it feels and sounds.

I have a T450s and the keyboard is quite good, although I wish that the keys weren't glossy but instead textured (like they were in all the photos on their website!). Turns out non-backlit get textured keycaps while backlit gets glossy.

I have no info about the main theme of this thread, but I agree that the T450s has a very good keyboard for a non-mech, except for a few non-standard features of the layout (getting used to the placement of Home/End, and PgUp/PgDn hasn't been easy).  But I think this is the best of the multiple Thinkpads I've owned over the years.
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Re: New Lenovo Laptop with Mechanical Keyboard
« Reply #7 on: Sat, 20 February 2016, 10:28:34 »
They should just move back to the older version of the Thinkpad keyboards, they were amazing. Much better than the current chicklet design, and better than the Chinese-produced keyboards post the acquisition by Lenovo.
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Re: New Lenovo Laptop with Mechanical Keyboard
« Reply #8 on: Wed, 30 March 2016, 06:35:49 »
Quote from: jamster on Sat, 20 February 2016, 10:28:34
They should just move back to the older version of the Thinkpad keyboards, they were amazing. Much better than the current chicklet design, and better than the Chinese-produced keyboards post the acquisition by Lenovo.

Why did IBM sell off to Lenovo in the first place? Their Thinkpads and Aptivas/Thinkcentres were indestructible!
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