laptop with a proper keyboard

[kotekzot]

hello. i'm looking to buy a laptop with a proper vanilla keyboard. no extra keys or else anything to get in the way. it seems there are some laptops like this, but they are mostly very powerful and thus have a short battery life. i will mostly use it for typing text, some web-surfing, an occasional video and a bit of programming (nothing too resource-intesive, probably just python/php). size and weight aren't very important. i'll probably use linux on it, so not having to pay for a windows license would be a big bonus.

in short:
■a proper keyboard
■long battery life
■reasonable specs, but nothing fancy
■no included costs for software (linux)

 

[frozenlead]

Lenovo's laptops have excellent keyboards...I'm very jealous of them. They're rather expensive, though.

 

[kotekzot]

lenovo laptops sure look fancy and sleek, but are too expensive for a glorified typewriter (which is what i'm looking for), as well as not having the real proper keyboard. here's what i'm looking for ideally: link. thanks for you suggestion though.

 

[dwellman]

I wouldn't know. I like laptop keyboards (scissor type key connectors) and I have no inkling of what you could mean by "extra keys"

 

[frozenlead]

If you're really that stuck on using some specific keyboard, just go buy a keyboard in store after trying it out, and then plug it into the notebook via USB. There's no way to quantify the feeling of the keyboard.

 

[kotekzot]

I wouldn't know. I like laptop keyboards (scissor type key connectors) and I have no inkling of what you could mean by "extra keys"

basically what i want is a standard 104 keyboard, like the one in the image i linked.

If you're really that stuck on using some specific keyboard, just go buy a keyboard in store after trying it out, and then plug it into the notebook via USB. There's no way to quantify the feeling of the keyboard.

i'm talking about the keys and their arrangement on they keyboard. i'd rather have a single device to haul around than two, but if there are no laptops with proper 104 keyboard i just might buy an eeepc and a keyboard for it.

 

[kotekzot]

I wouldn't know. I like laptop keyboards (scissor type key connectors) and I have no inkling of what you could mean by "extra keys"

basically what i want is a standard 104 keyboard, like the one in the image i linked.

If you're really that stuck on using some specific keyboard, just go buy a keyboard in store after trying it out, and then plug it into the notebook via USB. There's no way to quantify the feeling of the keyboard.

i'm talking about the keys and their arrangement on they keyboard. i'd rather have a single device to haul around than two, but if there are no laptops with proper 104 keyboard i just might buy an eeepc and a keyboard for it.

 

[frozenlead]

Ah, alright. Just get a 17" Dell Inspirion. They come with full keyboards.

 

[Peaks]

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