I want to know about the keyboard on the Surface...I’m looking for a laptop with a type “M”, or “IBM” type keyboard...I hate the rubbery, membrane keys on the others. I’m a trained, touch typist, and I need the spring back and the travel of a keyboard to be accurate. Until then, I refuse to buy a laptop.
Right now, on my tower, I use a Series 4000, Microsoft, wireless keyboard/mouse. I love the “IBM Selectric” type keys.
Anybody know?
I’m a trained, touch typist, and I need the spring back and the travel of a keyboard to be accurate.I'm also a touch-typist, but my favorite keyboard at the moment is one of those Apple thingies that has almost no key travel; just enough to keep my spine happy.
That being said, the nicest keyboard I ever used was on an IBM Office System/6 word processor. Looked, sounded, and felt exactly like a Selectric.
No reason you couldn't use your existing keyboard/mouse combination on a laptop just as easily as you are using it on your desktop.
Note the surface pro 4 keyboard is different from the SP3 and I have the SP4.
I’m sitting next to an M keyboard I rescued from goodwill years ago! The SP4 keyboard is decent with plastic switches over a rubber membrane so you get a small amount of click and resistance feedback. Certainly better than pure rubber membrane keys but not nearly as good as a decent laptop keyboard (but darn close). The keys are a bit more closely spaced so travel is different but overall I like it and recommend it heartily.
I doubt you'll ever be really happy with a laptop keyboard, but the good news is that the buckling spring keyboards, like the Model M, are still available. IBM moved their production to Lexmark, and they stopped making them. However, Unicomp purchased the production equipment, and you can buy buckling spring keyboards directly from them. I've got one, and I love it.
Mark