When choosing a notebook, we often give priority to appearance, weight thickness, configuration performance, screen display, and even interface configuration. However, there is also a notebook that needs to deal with it as long as it is turned on, and it is used most frequently, but it becomes a component of "small transparency" - the keyboard.
The role of the keyboard need not be said, without it, even the "keyboard man" with deep skills will lose most of its combat effectiveness. But just like staple foods, although they will be on the table in the finale, it is difficult to have a sense of existence, and sometimes it is omitted because of "losing weight and eating enough".
However, if the keyboard wants to brush the sense of existence, it can easily make your familiar notebook strange, and even make people wonder if there is something wrong with their own hands.
So, how uncomfortable can the notebook keyboard suddenly "lose its temper"? Next, let's see if we have also suffered from it.
Broken keyboard?
From unboxing to retiring notebooks, you may have experienced many "tribulations", but under normal circumstances, it is not easy to use a bad keyboard. Although not all manufacturers emphasize the longevity of keyboard keys, millions of times, tens of millions of taps can still cope. Xiaobian has used so many products, and only the "F" keycap of one notebook has been pressed out of a crack, and it can still be used normally. It can be seen that the keyboard actually has a strong vitality.
But these are normal circumstances, once encountered "accident", the keyboard will "lose its temper".
For example, many users' notebooks have tasted coffee, cola, cold white open, sauce and other liquids or fluids, and the quality of the excellent (anti-spill) can also bite the teeth to support it, but there are also some devices due to internal corrosion there are some button strikes. This is also the most common reason why laptop keyboards break down. In addition to maintenance, only an external keyboard can be used.
However, this "definite damage" will only make you chagrin, and the real wordless thing is the "intermittent tantrums" of the notebook keyboard. The main reason for this situation is that there is a foreign body under the keycap, the symptom performance is mainly that the key does not rebound, originally wanted to send "sorry ha", but the H key wanted to take a break and became "sorry hahahahahaha If you don't withdraw it in time, the severity of the impact depends on who you're talking to.
If you like to snack in front of the notebook or chase the drama while watching, then you may wish to spread a protective film on the keyboard to prevent foreign objects such as potato chip crumbs from entering the notebook, or clean it in time.
In addition, if you have found that the keyboard keys often do not rebound or fail, then it is best to repair and replace them in time, otherwise it is likely to affect the experience at a critical moment. For example, in the game "automatic flash", it may also be that the boss lets you modify the plan when you can't type keywords, or when an article is written and reviewed, it is full of typos (don't ask the editor how to know).
If you want to be portable, it is best not to take a shot at the keyboard
If "broken keyboard" is a hard injury, then the flaw in keyboard design that affects the input experience is a "congenital disease". As the leader of this, Apple's butterfly keyboard is about to appear again. This kind of design, which is famous for its poor use and frequently makes headlines, is also rare in the history of Apple products.
However, Apple's butterfly keyboard actually represents a type of notebook keyboard design, typical of the key range that sacrifices keys in pursuit of extreme thinness and lightness. Since Apple can make the MacBook only equipped with USB C, it is naturally not difficult to shorten the key range. But in the hands of users, although portability belongs to the first-line level of the notebook, the negligible key range also makes the fingers suffer, as if the stiffness of tapping on the "iron plate", Xiaobian is also impressed, and then dissuaded.
In fact, in addition to the MacBook, there are also keyboards for some two-in-one devices that are deeply involved in this pit. But now, Apple's butterfly keyboard has become a thing of the past, and other PC manufacturers have also absorbed this lesson, in the pursuit of thin and portable no longer take a shot at the keyboard, instead of the big key cap, long key range as a selling point.
Arrow keys: 99% of the time can not see, when you want to chop hands
If you want to choose the most difficult keys to use in notebook keyboards, the arrow keys should now be able to rank among the best. After the notebook entered the era of full screen, the mold that has remained unchanged for thousands of years has finally been updated, and a smaller body size has been put into a larger screen. But at the same time, there are still some "details" that have fallen prey, including the keyboard's arrow keys.
The full screen is narrowed not only by the screen border, but also by the C-side where the keyboard is located, which leads to a more compact keyboard. Some poorly designed products may shrink the size of the keycaps as a result, resulting in a sense of restraint on the keyboard for users with large hands. However, the strategy adopted by most manufacturers is to target the "infrequently used" keys, including the arrow keys. As for the numeric keypad, the 15.6-inch notebook has no living space.
The arrow keys are not so important with a mouse, trackpad, or touch screen, but that doesn't mean users won't use them. When you want to use those four classic keys, you will find that compared to other keys, the D-pad may be only half the size of the area, and its key spacing is very small. In particular, some notebooks use two arrow keys up and down compact design, and are sandwiched between the left and right arrow keys, and it is really a test to want to "accurately blind press", otherwise the wrong touch is the basic operation. At this time, you may wish that your hands were smaller.
Write at the end
After the mobile experience became an important use case for notebooks, the importance of notebook keyboards has steadily increased. Along with this, some long-standing drawbacks have also surfaced, hitting the head-on when users can only rely on it.
The above situations are just common problems of the notebook keyboard "tantrums", in addition, some notebook keyboard "personalized" design is also called negative optimization, requiring users to spend time to adapt. Although keyboard innovation is a good thing, innovating for the sake of innovation only increases the cost of user purchase, but does not improve the user experience.
Of course, there are also some manufacturers who hope that the keyboard will become the highlight of the user's purchase, so it has launched a mechanical keyboard and other innovations, it is undeniable that the design is impeccable in the feel, and even allows users to customize the keycaps, which is undoubtedly attractive for users who like toss, especially gamers. But these designs also mean that there is a certain degree of relaxation or even abandonment of portability, so it can only exist as a minority in the market, or exclusive to the game.
Finally, do you think your laptop keyboard works well? Have you ever been "pitted" by a keyboard?