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Membrane keyboards are not all that bad.

I moved from macbooks to thinkpads for many reasons (including freedom - I want a machine that runs coreboot) but the keyboard was just a big unexpected surprise.

Now, I am a big fan of the pre-X220 "classic" 7 rows keyboards, found on every model before. It's simple, comfortable and standard. I remember how a Thinkpad 600 felt "good" about 15 years ago, and now I just get the same good feeling back. Maybe it's nostalgia, but it feels quite good.

For my desktop computer, I have a SK8845 (same thinkpad keyboard in usb form factor), with a trackpoint + a trackpad + 5 mouse buttons all in one device. Very handy, and no window keys to bother me. You can fetch a new one off ebay for like $30. The SK8855 are expansive - a new one will set you back by $200.

Before that thinkpad keyboard, still in a membrane, I enjoyed the Apple raised USB keyboard- not the contemporary aluminum chiclet keyboard, the plastic one. On amazon, it's the M9034LL http://www.amazon.com/Apple-M9034LL-A-USB-Keyboard/dp/B0000A...

I guess for me the difference is not so much the hipster "click" noise but the size of the key. I don't want an empty space between my keys.

EDIT: fixed the model numbers