How To Pick a Laptop With a Good Keyboard

The keyboard and mouse are the primary sources of input for a modern computer, but the keyboard plays the larger role of the two. The quality and functionality of the keyboard drives productivity, especially if most of the work you do is text-oriented. Some years back, we wrote an article on how to be more productive by changing the way you use the keyboard. In this article, we’re going to discuss keyboards themselves, including the importance of the layout, and what to look for when deciding whether the keyboard is of good quality.

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avoid MSI laptops, lol - and apple too (especially macbook gold)... and probably any gaming laptops, but I haven't tested the keyboard on them all

 

Yes; the MSI gaming notebooks I've seen don't have dedicated Home and End keys, though you can use the SteelSeries software to remap keys to Home and End. Not a great solution but it works. ASUS keyboards can be bad too, especially on the gaming ones where I've seen some layouts missing either a Home or End key because it's been replaced by - of all things - a power button!
Agreed in full about the Apples.

Many of Dell's latest notebooks, including the Precision, Latitude and XPS models, have secondary Home/End/PgUp/PgDn. Unacceptable compromises.

Charles

 

Generally speaking, a ThinkPad is always a good choice. I thought the Dell Latitude E5450 I saw recently was fairly decent, though I rarely use Home/End/PgUp/PgDn keys.

 

I'm not keen on the new Macbook keyboards with minimal travel but the chiclet style keyboards found on other models are fairly good to type with. I regularly type out 5-10,000 words and it's not an unpleasant experience: I don't often find myself pressing the wrong keys and typing speed is good when using them. Agreeing with ZaZ, I've found the Latitude keyboards to be decent to type with and better than Apple - the key travel is about right, not too noisy and has a solid feeling. Home/End/PgUp/PgDn aren't a crucial deal-breaker but it's definitely preferable to have them.

 

I agree, the latest Latitude models have a good keyboard feel, better than the previous models. Their decision to move Home and End into the arrow key cluster across the board nixes them for me, personally; having to press Fn in combination is awkward, especially when using a third key in the combo like Shift.

Charles

 

almost all new laptop use chiclet keyboard this is bad for me...it feel wierd, so small for me, when i try to type with it in my friend's, i always miss type or i press the space between the keys and now my laptop near the end of it's life. i want to buy a new gaming laptop, too bad almost all cheap new gaming laptop use chiclet in my country ...is chichlet from clevo good? it feel horrible in asus g751 and msi ge72 for me and by the way is tradisional keyboard from clevo p177sm good? there is last item for that product since that use tradisional keyboard keys but no display to try, i'm too afraid to buy