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[Moderator edit: Moving thread from Computer Peripherals to Opinions and Experiences. No specific technical problem or question. Discussion.]
I had the unfortunate experience of typing on, what I believe, one of the worst keyboard I've ever used.
A relative of mine asked me to install some programs on his laptop, along with helping him write a couple of documents or two. Usual stuff, really. His laptop is this 14 inch HP Pavilion, I can't remember the exact model, but it's Intel and is reasonably old (Kaby Lake, I think? It's on Windows 10). It looks like one of these (not the exact model as it's a 14 inch, but close)...
The keyboard... is horrible. Like, it's so bad it forced me to open a new thread here. It's so flimsy, the keys wiggle around like they're not installed correctly, feels like they'll pop out if I look at it the wrong way. It feels cheap and sticky to the touch, sounds cheap, and typing on it... I swear the keys have only like 0.01 mm of travel, they're that bad. It's like typing onan execution bed a wooden table. Or a tablet touchscreen. It was tiring and actually painful after a while.
Usually I'm quite forgiving when it comes to subpar equipment, but this HP keyboard... is an abomination. It was so gross. I have a Thinkpad as my daily (an X1) so I know I'm a bit biased / spoiled here, but in comparison to even HP's own old affordable netbooks (what were they called? HP Stream, I think?), it's positively worse...
The only thing worse than that HP keyboard was this "rollable" keyboard I got as an emergency keyboard years ago, felt like typing on Jello. Lucky it was just that, an emergency keyboard. It looks like this one, only it was in a strange hue of cyan..
I've also tried Logitech's Wave Keyboard one time... I'm not a mechanical keyboard kind of guy so I thought it would be the keyboard for me, an ergonomic keyboard that's "healthy" and all that. It was not comfortable, at least for me. It was strangely angled...
I'm not here to bash on HP, I'm sure the newer ones are better and the issues of that particular one I used probably had something to do with it's age, but this got me wondering..
What's the worst keyboard you've ever used?
I had the unfortunate experience of typing on, what I believe, one of the worst keyboard I've ever used.
A relative of mine asked me to install some programs on his laptop, along with helping him write a couple of documents or two. Usual stuff, really. His laptop is this 14 inch HP Pavilion, I can't remember the exact model, but it's Intel and is reasonably old (Kaby Lake, I think? It's on Windows 10). It looks like one of these (not the exact model as it's a 14 inch, but close)...
The keyboard... is horrible. Like, it's so bad it forced me to open a new thread here. It's so flimsy, the keys wiggle around like they're not installed correctly, feels like they'll pop out if I look at it the wrong way. It feels cheap and sticky to the touch, sounds cheap, and typing on it... I swear the keys have only like 0.01 mm of travel, they're that bad. It's like typing on
Usually I'm quite forgiving when it comes to subpar equipment, but this HP keyboard... is an abomination. It was so gross. I have a Thinkpad as my daily (an X1) so I know I'm a bit biased / spoiled here, but in comparison to even HP's own old affordable netbooks (what were they called? HP Stream, I think?), it's positively worse...
The only thing worse than that HP keyboard was this "rollable" keyboard I got as an emergency keyboard years ago, felt like typing on Jello. Lucky it was just that, an emergency keyboard. It looks like this one, only it was in a strange hue of cyan..
I've also tried Logitech's Wave Keyboard one time... I'm not a mechanical keyboard kind of guy so I thought it would be the keyboard for me, an ergonomic keyboard that's "healthy" and all that. It was not comfortable, at least for me. It was strangely angled...
I'm not here to bash on HP, I'm sure the newer ones are better and the issues of that particular one I used probably had something to do with it's age, but this got me wondering..
What's the worst keyboard you've ever used?
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. To touch type on that keyboard was a workout for your fingers.
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