why nobody shills this here?

>>57539044
shit travel time

Must be garbage.

Chiclet keyboard

Looks shit desu. It should be like somebody lifted one of the good memepad keyboards off but it ain't.

IT AIN'T

>>57539138
it's not

Function row
Cant swap fn and ctrl

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>>57539044

Why the fuck would i use this garbage went i can have mechanical keyboard ?

>>57539172
IT's island style, that's what chiclet means, how can you even argue this?
>>57539044
Because /g/ almost universally despises the newer lenovo keyboards on thinkpads?

>>57539208
>Because /g/ almost universally despises the newer lenovo keyboards on thinkpads?
>>57539205
>Why the fuck would i use this garbage went i can have mechanical keyboard ?


/thread

no touchpad

Because why would i use a clitmouse on a desktop? Large screen makes those cumbersome to use.

>>57539193
>- Cambio rápido a las teclas de función y de vuelta mediante el bloqueo Fn+Esc
you can

It's cool, but the nipple really is top class on a laptop. On a desktop I don't see the point.

>>57539044
Because there are a lot better IBM keyboards. If you want a spacesaver, go for a IBM/Unicomp M4-1.

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>>57539044
Because the older version is undoubtedly superior, yet they're extremely scarce.

>>57539044
Can i open it up and replace the keyboard?

I don't mind the chiclet keyboard but that layout is fucking awful

>>57539575
This. I want that specific one but they go for $200 on ebay so instead i got a RT3200.

>>57539261
Build wall

>>57539044
I think your Thinkpad has autism

>>57539259
>>57539268
I have no problems using my trackpoint with an external monitor. Seems more accurate than a mouse, too.

i have the bluetooth one to use with my media pc. works pretty gud

>>57539044
because IBM got sick of making Thinkpads so they sold the brand to Lenovo who ruined it.

>>57539575
so, it's the bottom half of a thinkpad?

uh, alright...

>>57539208
Cause the keys curve in like regular keys

That's what sets it apart from chiclets

>>57539044
>Fn left of Ctrl

I will never accept this.

>>57539575
>yfw it's cheaper to just use an entire Thinkpad using Synergy as a keyboard

>>57539208
To be fair most despise it because of the layout, not because of the keys themselves

because you can't shitpost about it's >muh buildquality

>>57539044
>why nobody shills this here?
Just look at it!
Totally fucked up layout.
>Not even spaces between the groups of 4 of the f-keys.
>pg up and down at wierd locations
>prtSc at random location
>f-keys are labelled with random symbols, instead of f1 to f12
>no blue enter key

>>57540731
This.

Also, the rubber in the nipple things peels my fingertips somehow.

>>57539044
Newer thinkpads have pretty meh keyboards.
Source: I own one.

Also that shit costs $50. You can get a decent mechanical keyboard for that price, or a decent rubber dome for half that.

The bluetooth version is pretty cute though. I'd use it over that shit logitech makes for couch computing any day.

>>57540359
good luck building a wall over the ocean fagit

>>57540731
you can swap it the same way as the laptop

Too expensive for what it is.
About $70 for a scissor switch? Eh.

I'd totally use it if it was cheaper.

>>57539044
if it was wireless, sure.

>>57541460
the keyboard pictured is wireless, using bluetooth, and includes a battery that charges over usb

>>57540733
I should buy an x61s with a bad screen for this. Just make it headless and use it as a keyboard.

>>57539044
>Fn Ctrl
>not Ctrl Fn
into the trash

>>57541476
>>57540733
Why not just pull out the keyboard, wire the ribbon cable to a regular USB input and put it in a 3D printed housing?

I'm actually considering doing just that.

OP here

1 wireless bluetooth
2 battery inside
3 track point and godtier 'mouse' buttons
4 you can put Fn and Control on any order you want (as the laptops)
5 literal best keyboard experience over any chink or logitech alternative
6 touchpads are literal shit (i own a k400r)

>>57541494
Aren't the keyboard/TrackPoint still PS/2 interface even on fairly modern ThinkPads?

I think you'd need active converters for USB compatibility.

>>57541494
Because Im too fucking stupid. Otherwise i would have one with a keyboard from a titanium PowerBook G4.

>>57539044
Because its trash m8, old one was better

My uncle gave me like $100 of pocket money.

It's either this + a new mouse or a bleaglebone.

What do?

>>57541547
Didn't know that.
Well, all motherboards still have PS/2 inputs, but I'm not sure if the keyboard would need external power.

>>57539259
Not having to move your hand to move the mouse helps a lot with productivity.

this nig tests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ovMqIZijhg

>>57541584
>Well, all motherboards still have PS/2 inputs, but I'm not sure if the keyboard would need external power.

You need two (one for the mouse, one for the keyboard) but using a USB converter for the keyboard isn't so bad. I've had noticeable latency issues trying to use a USB converter for TrackPoints though (with older PS/2 TrackPoint desktop keyboards).

Plus I'm a Mac user so there's no chance of me ever having a single PS/2 input available, which is one of the main reasons I gave up on trying to use older TrackPoint keyboards.

>>57541417
just build it on their coast, fag

>>57541438
since when does a keyboard has bios? because thats how you do it on thinkpad

>>57541770
you just do it using a keyboard combination

>>57541762
i'm in Spain

>hurr function key on the left

How about you just edit the registry and swap fn and ctrl?

There's even software to do this with GUI.
Sharpkeys on windows.

>>57539251
Get out.

>>57541685
>Plus I'm a Mac user so there's no chance of me ever having a single PS/2 input available, which is one of the main reasons I gave up on trying to use older TrackPoint keyboards.

Purple cubes work fine anon.

>>57541985
>why not just buy a shitty keyboard with terribly placed keys and then spend time to make it less shitty when you can use a cheaper one that's better?
gee I don't know

>>57543083
Editing the registry to swap keys takes like 30 seconds.
Go back to /v/, you clearly don't belong here.

>>57541797
And what keyboard combination is that?

>>57539044
>a keyboard for desktop that isn't limited by the size of the laptop or some shit
>everything is crammed in, function keys and the utility keys or whatever they are really called are merged together
>no numpad(fuck it, don't care, different preferences)
>the raped function keys aren't even grouped

>>57540791
I do both. MOST do both, SOME despise it only for the layout

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>>57539044
Because this god machine exists.

>>57539044
is there a non chiclet version?

>>57539138
chiclets masterrace

almost no depression distance, you just have to touch the key and press it softly instead of ramming your fingers into it half a mile a deep

no KLAK KLAK KLAK KLAK bullshit

compact and flat instead of that humongous crap that for some inexplicable reason has that uncomfortable top-bottom curved shape

>>57543852
>desktop keyboard with even less functionality than a laptop keyboard
baka senpai

>>57543852
>two windows keys
>no menu key

>>57542628
Yeah but the keyboard isn't the problem, it's the TrackPoint. Can't use a Purple Cube for that.

>>57543212
>registry
go back to /v/, you don't belong here

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Why isn't there a hobby scene where people take old laptop keyboards and make them into into desktop keyboards?

>>57541494
Is this even possible?

I have 2 T420 keyboards, a T400 keyboard and two T430 keyboards, don't mind breaking them because they have the US layout.

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>>57544605
It's a complicated thing to do, it's not as easy as just soldering on a connector and putting it in a case. Laptop keyboards do not have controllers. You'd have to find a suitable one or use one of those hobbyist multi-purpose controllers.

Still, it has been done from time to time.

http://www.grynx.com/projects/converted-laptop-keyboard/

My gut tells me if you got good at it and had some nicely finished housings you could make some bank buying up cheap and busted old 90s laptops with good keyboards in them and sell them after USB desktop conversion for high prices to hipsters.

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>>57539044
bitch please

>>57539044
>that red piece of shit in the middle
I don't understand why anyone would want that.

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>>57544701

I almost bought one of those, but the pointing stick on it is an older version that isn't very comfy.

I'm pretty happy with my IBM Spacesaver 2. I got it NIB from a friendly Canadian merchant.

>>57544703

Spend about an hour getting used to it and you'll never go back to a trackpad or mouse again. Gaymen is probably the only scenario where it would be less convenient.

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>>57544742
Hmm. The pointing stick is fine with me, and I like the cat's tongue nub.
But the lack of a third button, and the fact that the mouse buttons aren't that great are a little bit of an issue. Of course I run a mouse too, but I don't use the pass-thru.

>>57544882

It was definitely a tough decision for me. I've never had a mechanical keyboard and I wanted to try it out, but I don't use a mouse. I couldn't take the chance that the older version of the pointing stick would be unbearable.

>>57543221
Fn Esc AFAIK

>>57544703
Thought the same until i bought a thinkpad
I disabled the touchpad the first day and never used it again

Moving the cursor without moving your hand is pretty based

>>57543959
>>57544014
it's programmable, you can change layouts and the keys with some switches underneath. It also comes with extra keys (Fn, Command, Windows, Shift, Ctrl) you can change those to match the layout and you have at least 3 layers of keys pressing modifiers.
Afte ryou set it up as you see fit you just plug it and it works, no drivers needed.
Honestly it's way better than you can imagine, I was surprised.

>>57545784

What's the name of it. Reverse image search didn't turn anything up

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>>57546300
it's a tex yoda trackpoint. Got mine through massdrop a while back, don't know if the guys at tex yoda are selling it but I've seen some "thinkpad" variants that look great and they are the same keyboard.
Pic related.

>>57546343
>lsts film a demo
>But I'm not a typist
>you'll be fine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=p6yQJcg0kyU

>>57546343
NO PALM REST

>>57539575
It's actually not, those suffered from a lot of flex. The new ones are better in that regard.

>>57546676
kek

>>57539044
I use it everyday with my desktop.

>>57543860
see >>57539575

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>>57545355
[Fn] [Ctrl]
instead of
[Ctrl] [Fn]

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I like mine. Not many people have them I think. I remaped the gay PrtScr key to Menu like G-d intended it.

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>>57548004

>objectively worst ThinkPad keyboard in desktop form

>>57548021
they're good tho. Better than anything else in the market nowadays

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>>57548031

Spacesaver 2 is old, but there's still some new ones floating around

>>57539044
>chiclet garbage

Lenovo is for all intents and purposes dead since 2012 when they retired any actual keyboards.

>>57548070
Impossible to find with a Spanish layout sadly. I'd use one if I could.

>>57540664
Why did over the course of the last 10-12 years literally every tech company "get sick" of making decent stuff and went for garbage or quit altogether?

>inb4 amd bankrupcy buyout
>le intel & nvidia monopolies

>>57541098
>decent rubber dome
Are there any at all, except maybe for the remaining stock of the Lenovo Preferred Pro (which won't last forever btw)?

>>57541471
Does the wireless transmission support encryption?

>>57548163
shareholders
They are like cancer for big companies, everything is made or build to maximize profit regardless of what was making the company or the long term impact. That also prevents innovation, research and a lot of good shit for the company and for everyone else.
All they care is quarter reports and steady profits. Anything that could upset their shit percentage is bad.
I bet IBM sold Thinkpads for a load of cash to recoup money they lost on a different venture or just to make a shitload of money on one go and keep shareholders happy.
Those motherfuckers need to get killed.

>>57548186
What do you mean? All Thinkcentres ship with those by default. I know because my workplace just got a shitload of those. And I don't think they're specially good.

>>57541685
PS/2 is another port type which was killed off for literally no reason at all (other than "hurr it was old so it had to go").

Looks like soon all we're left with is PCI-E on the inside and USB-C on the outside. RIP PC connectors, the whole lot of you.

>>57547749
>autism
instead of
>grasping it anyways and leaving it be

>>57539044
Not mechanical/10
its shit

>>57548186
Dell keyboards were decent and I bet they are less than 25 dollars.

>>57548226
Wrong

Workstation and enthusiast motherboards still come with PS2

It was mostly axed from most consumer computers because they pins were too easy to damage

Why is /g/ so full of contrarian hipsters?

>>57543943
>chiclets masterrace
kindly kys

>>57544505
This one works perfectly with my RT3200

http://www.ebay.com/itm/371206911330

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>>57546854
the model with the touchpad as well as trackpoint has no flex.

>>57548149
Non-ANSI keyboard layouts should perish in a fire. Learn from the Polish who scrapped their special snowflake layout (which had been used on Polish typewriters in the olden days) long ago and just use a US layout, with language-specific characters entered with the right Alt key.

>>57540731
>Fn left of Ctrl
>I will never accept this.

It's been that way for longer than most of /g/ has been alive.

>>57545355
That only makes it so you don't have to hold Fn to change volume and shit.

Who the fuck thought going form this >>57539575
to this >>57539044 was a good idea?

>>57539044
saw one of these at work the other week

I totally thought someone had snapped the screen off a thinkpad and frankensteined the bottom as a keyboard for their desktop

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The vastly superior one.

>>57550886
it may well be, but I'm not about to pay 600 dollars for a fucking keyboard

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you are all a bunch of nuggets

im buying it
fuck you all

>>57539044
All the compromises that come from a no-mouse, no-numpad laptop, but on a desktop? Why?

>>57551133
the bluetooth one may be useful for controlling a computer from the other side of the room

>>57541042
Seek medical advice

>>57543943

>KLAK KLAK KLAK KLAK
This is the soundtrack to my life and i love it.

>ramming your fingers into it half a mile a deep
My long powerful man fingers can achieve that effortlessly, you should get in shape.

>compact and flat
It does extend about two inchs toward to sky, quite a climb but i can manage it.

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>>57539044
Because its a garbage laptop layout

>>57543943
Alps or matias switches do better

>>57539138
This

>>57544605
Mainly because of half what >>57544685 said.
Also, most laptop keyboards are shit compared to regular keyboards.

>>57541494
>>57541547
Yep, the laptop boards use the PS/2 protocol.
Not too hard to take the ribbon, adapt it to a 6 pin mini-DIN, and then run it through a cheap PS/2 to USB converter.

>>57548229
i know its all about of your capacity to deal with changes, in a site known for being full of aspies i know this is an issue, they even made a thread to shill a laptop keyboard as a desktop one.

this is beyond comfyness its all about being retarded.

>just let me keep shitposting.

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I like the keyboard because of the trackpoint
This is going to be my sofa keyboard, lads