Quote from: panzersharkcat on October 06, 2020, 19:13:39
Quote from: S.Yu on October 06, 2020, 17:32:17
For all these years since Thinkpad was taken over by Lenovo, they've stuck with their ugly curvy key caps. Even as everybody's going minimalist, they stubbornly add curves to the keys. It's just perplexing.
The "ugly" curvy key caps are one of the reasons I buy ThinkPads. They're designed to make it easier to touch type. I'm more concerned about them lowering key travel on these and the placement of the X1 logo. I preferred it in the lower corner on the back.
I think you're quite deluded and you'll fail a double blind on this, but nobody's bored enough to design one.
Quote from: zzman on October 06, 2020, 20:34:01
QuoteFor all these years since Thinkpad was taken over by Lenovo, they've stuck with their ugly curvy key caps.
The keys aren't flat because human fingers aren't flat. I don't care if flat square keys look prettier, I use the laptop for work, I care about the usability. Sadly most manufacturers don't care, which is why so many laptop keyboards are utter garbage (for various reasons).
Strawman argument. The ugliness of the keys do not add to usability. Look up "ergonomic keyboard" in an image search and none of the first few pages of results show ugly keys like Lenovo's. Mechanicals are overwhelmingly better yet they're not ugly like Lenovo's, and being mechanical doesn't exclude them from being compact either as the old Razer Pro has proved. Further, the Thinkpad keyboards that had the best reputation were actually from pre-Lenovo models, and IBM did not have to uglify them to get there. Finally, "human fingers aren't flat" is only an excuse for the top surface of the key to be curved, it does not imply anything about the side edges, whereas the curved bottom edge of Lenovo keys are a significant part of why they're so ugly. If it's just a round dent in the middle, that might actually be quite quaint.