Is there a new keyboard in the new clevos?

Hello. I have a p170em and the keyboard is really bad. I had 5+ keyboards sent to me and I tried every of them but all were bad. All of them were different, but still bad. This all happened when the laptop was still new, then I started to not care.

Anyhow, when I look at the pictures of the new clevos that can use the best gpu's, the keyboard looks exactly the same as on my p170em. Is this true? Will they ever update the keyboard? I really like the clevo overall, but I'm not buying another one until they get fix the keyboard.
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that sounds like you got a lemon laptop with something else internally being the problem and not the keyboard.
ive got the 15" and never had a problem.
at the start it did miss a few keystrokes but that settled down.

and as far as i know the new SM models use the same keyboard but its best to check with a supplier to be sure.

looking at your previous posts is this the same laptop you got quite cheap? if so maybe there was a reason it was so cheap.

 

I own the 8258-S and my wife owns the regular 8258.

Neither of us have had any issue with the keyboard to day. We also do a considerable amount of typing.

My wife's a seamtress and milliner/designer, so she does a lot of work with design programs for her embroidery and hat making.

I myself am a system architect and use this a lot for work related issues, usually at the unix console.

I type, on average, about 160wpm, at a bit over 90% accuracy. My wife does about 110 wpm at about 97% accuracy.

Neither of us have noticed any type of ghosting, dropped keys, or repeat-keys from typing like we do normally.

Frankly, compared to my macbook pro, my old asus laptop, the lenovo my wife has for her direct connection to the embroidery machine (to run the software as a dedicated system) and the dell I also use for work (apart from the afore mentioned macbook pro), the keyboard on the sager is, without comparison, the best feeling and tactile keyboard I have ever had.

The only minor complaint I have with it is where certain keys are located and how they reduce the size of the right shift key to make room for the arrow keys. But as I rarely use the right shift key, it's a fairly non issue for me.

The other issue I have is I at times hit the right alt key because the space bar is somewhat shortened, and the capslock key because my left finger drags on it occasionally.

Without knowing what you define as 'bad', it's hard to say what is precisely your issue. Is it the keyboard layout, is it the ghosting you are having, is it the sloppy feel of the keyboard?

Because other than the minor inconvenience of the placement of some of the keys, it only took about 3-4 weeks for my fingers to adapt to the layout and I've not had any issues typing from that period on.

So unless your complaint is in the keyboard layout, I think I have to agree with the previous poster and it looks like the issue you have is not in the keyboard itself, but maybe the cable to the keyboard or the motherboard and/or PS/2 or USB bus that the keyboard is sitting upon (depending on your laptop model).

Sorry I can't offer any other possible answers, but I, and likely anyone else wanting to help you, will need more to go on than just 'the clevo keyboards are bad'

 

The keyboards do look the same but they were revised since the EM models. There were more then usual reports of bad keyboards with those, but again they have been revised.

 

Hi guys I'm sorry to bump this topic but how do i change the keyboard layout in an sager 9570

 

best to start a new post.