Gigabyte P34G Customer Experience, Thoughs/Questions

Just curious if anyone else has considered a keyboard mod for this guy.

Anybody know if the size of the keyboard is some standard size/shape?

Anybody taken the laptop apart enough to see the keyboard is mounted and attached to the frame?

Personally, I'm not too happy with the feeling of the keys. Its not so much the flex (which there is a little), its more the mechanism that I don't like. I frequently get typos due to how easy some keys are to press, and the keys themselves seem to be loose, as in they wiggle and click a small amount when touched or depressed.

If anybody knows anything of this sort, the info would be appreciated.

I am planning my second RMA coming up. The first was a sound card issue, so they replaced the motherboard, taking forever to do so, and forgot install my (or any) working windows 8 activation code on the new BIOS. Somewhere in the process, the 1tb hard that had also broken was not replaced by either XotixPC or GIgabyte RMA. So I had to get XoticPC to ship me a new hard drive, even though I already threw in a Samsung EVO SSD that I had got in preparation for the P35K. Ended up with the P34G because the wait for the P35K was taking forever due to the bending in half fiasco.

This thing is a beast, especially with the mSATA SSD and Samsung SSD combo (OS onstock mSATA). I use the Samsung SSD for storage, and it holds all my files except for my videos, but I can move those with the USB 3.0 pretty quickly anyways. Gaming is great on the P34G, the screen is generally great, and I like the matte finish, though I have experienced the keyboard markings on the screen like many others. This is usually not an issue, but you can see the marks pretty clearly when the screen is off or in a very bright setting, in which case they can obscure the screen.

Like I said, I am now about to send it in for the second RMA, this time to get a working BIOS Windows Authentication so I don't get thrown into the blue screen asking to activate windows every hour or so. Overall I am impressed with the machine, but not so much with Gigabyte RMA and customer service. Previous RMA took forever and communication wasn't great. I feel like they should have fixed many of the first generations with the P34G V2, or at least I hope so. I'd be interested to see if any of the new components could be retrofitted to the P34G V1, mainly an updated keyboard or the new (slightly bigger) battery. Although I expect the battery life will also improve due to the Maxwell architecture. Anybody know if this update will have any effect on power consumption when the GPU is not is use vs the current gen?

Anyways, orry for nerding out. On a sidenote, I have also gotten TAILs to run and function on this thing. I installed a boot partition on a flashdrive then another copy on a microSD card (through USB adapter). Anybody have questions about the process, feel free to ask. The main thing is to disable GPU acceleration and other boot devices in the BIOS. It may take a few tries.