I got this keyboard in spring 2010, thinking that it is comparable to my
laptop’s keyboard, only as an external USB version. I like my laptop
keyboard for its precision, stiffness and pressure point, so I bought it.
The touch point is a neat extension, directly comparable to the Laptop’s
integrated one. A touchpad would have been perfect, so that I could use it
as scroll pad.
But as usual, reality doesn’t match expectation: The embedded keyboard
itself matches the Laptop’s one. But the case of the keyboard is a bad,
probably cheap compromise. It is a flexible, bendable plastic case. They
tried to make the case stiffer with plastic bars, but it is no match to my
Laptop’s keyboard.
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The case has to be stiffened. I had an old metal plate from a HiFi car
amplifier lying around that fitted the keyboard’s backside exactly. It is 1
mm thick and almost unbendable by hand. The snap-on case is cracked opened,
the plate fastened to the case with screws and nuts. Then, the case is
reassembled. Now, it it may even carry the name IBM, as stiff as it became.
