photo of an external thinkpad keyboard
My external Thinkpad Keyboard.

The Best Cheap Keyboard You Didn’t Know You Wanted

The best features of Thinkpads, but for your desk!

Scollurio
5 min readApr 17, 2020

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I still firmly believe, that a mechanical keyboard is the best choice for anyone who writes for a living. But tastes differ. Many writers prefer flat, chiclet-style keyboards, like the Apple Magic Keyboard. One particularly good keyboard is the one used in Thinkpads, featuring “the nub”. To me, it’s the best laptop keyboard, period. Even though Thinkpads are awesome otherwise, the keyboard alone would be reason enough to get a Thinkpad, it’s that good.

Even now, after Apple finally got their act together and started going back to the scissor-switch keyboards on the MacBook Pro 16" and the MacBook Air, the Thinkpad keyboard is superior. The feeling of actually typing on a Thinkpad is the best thing ever, short of an actual mechanical keyboard.

It’s quieter too.

Did you know, that you can have that awesome Thinkpad keyboard sans the actual Laptop? Yep, you really can, since 2013 actually.

photo of an external thinkpad keyboard function row
A clever and useful function row.

Function over form

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Scollurio

Hailing from Austria, a self-employed graphics designer and writer since 2009. Loves long walks in the forest, rain, thoughtful solitude and silly raccoons.