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protman@mas.to

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In the 90's, a friend got a bunch of IBM model-M keyboards from my jr college that were being disposed of, & everyone in our clan got one. then everyone in my band got one for . later in life, I became a fan of Unicomp's remakes, but now that i'm equally concerned about coding, writing & typing extremely fast without errors and hanging out in the home-row rather than the odd tracker-hover, i'm going to try out a low-profile mechanical keychron (full w/ numpad, of course)

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rnbastos@mas.erb.pw

Renato, aka Krull

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@protman those keyboards look cool but so expensive for me :/

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protman@mas.to

protmanwich.exe

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@rnbastos for about half the price, this would be my next choice :]

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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@protman @rnbastos With more recent ThinkPad's, after IBM sold laptop manufacturing to Lenovo, the build quality has been steadily decreasing.

I've never used auto-complete (be it with or without AI) and I hit keyboard hard so with modern ThinkPads, usually in a year or less, I start accidentally pull keys out of the keyboard when typing.

With Mac's laptop keyboards this has not happened but they have problems of their own, mainly keys getting stuck all the time into pressed position.

I guess I'm too rough and violent for modern laptop keyboards 🤷
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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@protman @rnbastos For instance: for one X-series ThinkPad acquired from work few years ago, Lenovo's onsite repair guy had to visit me three times during a two year period, just to switch the keyboard.

We became familiar enough that I still greet him, if I run into him on the street ;-)
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rnbastos@mas.erb.pw

Renato, aka Krull

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@jarkko @protman I agreee.. more recent Lenovo's keyboard are terrible. A few years ago when my company got one for me, I simply bought a Microsoft Keyboard to use on it... because, well, it was just impossible to use...

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