News Enthusiast ejects failing Lenovo laptop keyboard, upgrades system with custom titanium case and mechanical keyboard

[Admin]

Marcin Plaza's old Lenovo Yoga laptop keyboard is about to give out — so he upgrades it by replacing the old keyboard with a low-profile mechanical one and a ordering a new titanium case.

Enthusiast ejects failing Lenovo laptop keyboard, upgrades system with custom titanium case and mechanical keyboard : Read more

 

[edzieba]

And the moral of the story is: don't by non-Thinkpad Lenovo laptops. I've got one of the original ThinkPad Yogas (over a decade old now) with the fancy keyboard-keys-lock-themselves-flat-and-immovable-when-you-open-it-all-the-way-around keyboard mechanism, and it's still going strong today without issue, whilst this thing can't even go 5 years without two broken keyboards that don't even have a party trick.

 

[CmdrShepard]

That's not an enthusiast, it's a nerd.

 

[NedSmelly]

And the moral of the story is: don't by non-Thinkpad Lenovo laptops. I've got one of the original ThinkPad Yogas (over a decade old now) with the fancy keyboard-keys-lock-themselves-flat-and-immovable-when-you-open-it-all-the-way-around keyboard mechanism, and it's still going strong today without issue, whilst this thing can't even go 5 years without two broken keyboards that don't even have a party trick.

Yes - ThinkPad keyboards are one of their highlight features. I’m always bummed when an old ThinkPad starts failing, but I can’t take its keyboard with me to use on something else.

 

[Amdlova]

You can't take my pleasure of touch the red nipple

 

[Findecanor]

I've had a couple ThinkPad keyboards fail on me, and it was also the most used letter key.