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Comment by Causality1 | Hacker News Reader

This reminds me of just how much I hate whoever came up with chiclet keyboards and ruined laptops forever.

Of course, with opinionated things like keyboards there will be people who love the exact thing you hate. Me, for example.

Choice is good. Lack of choice breeds resentment.

I resent the new keyboards. I also resent soldered memory, soldered storage and the lack of ethernet jacks.

I vote with my wallet where I can but the keyboards are ubiquitous; you can't vote with your wallet if there is no choice.

Which brings us back to standard forms, in which you could buy a different brands keyboard to suit you.

Probably the same person who came up with the idea of using widescreens on laptops. At least with keyboards, if you have enough money, you can buy a brand new laptop with mechanical keyboard.

Nobody is even making 4:3 monitors anymore, laptops or not.

Microsoft's been on the 3:2 ratio since the Surface Pro 3 and Surface Book, which is pretty nice.

Didn't the Timex Sinclair and IBM PC Jr have that way in the dawn of the PC era? The PC Jr was especially egregious because normal IBM keyboards were pretty great in my memory.

Yes, though the PCjr had a version of the keyboard without the chiclet keys. Also either version was a minimal keyboard without separate function keys or num pad.

I had the non-chiclet keyboard. I now don't want to get a newer MacBook Pro because the lack of function keys and escape key, even though my first computer's keyboard didn't have function keys (though it did have escape).

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