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    Drop in Dell-style keyboard for ASUS laptops?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Green Lantern, Jul 22, 2010.

  1. Green Lantern

    Green Lantern Notebook Geek

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    I prefer the dell style keyboard rather than the chiclet keyboard that
    ASUS seems to be in love with. (Remember the TRS-80 color computer?
    I do, that had a chiclet keyboard and it was evil!) Are keyboards standardized
    in size like optical drives, or are there upteen variations?
     
    Green Lantern, Jul 22, 2010
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    Typically proprietary to individual models or small families of similar machines. I definitely doubt you're going to be able to find a non-chiclet keyboard replacement for machine with a chiclet keyboard.

    Though modern "chiclet" keyboards are only chiclet in appearance; they have the same spring/rubber dome mechanism as "normal" laptop keyboards...
     
    Commander Wolf, Jul 22, 2010
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