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Laptop with zero flex keyboard

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Hello

I dunno if there is a section for laptops/mobile devices on TPU therefore I decided to start this thread in the general hardware section. Anyway, my main concern is that I will be moving on to do a Research Masters in September and I really want to get a laptop for my work. All the laptops I've looked at and read about so far seem to have a lot of flex in the keyboard and/or very mushy light, shallow key actions that don't offer the feedback I want and need to type, as I will be doing a lot of that. I am very OCDish about this sort of thing. I consider the keyboard to be the achilees heel in a laptop and from what I've seen it is very hard to come by a laptop that has a solid keyboard, that has zero flex, has somewhat hard to press down buttons and gives you that almost mechanical keyboard feel. It also must not be glossy and I generally prefer black. It must be sturdy and rigid, don't want a lemon. It must be mobile, have a 13-14" screen and good battery life. I need it to be powerful enough so that it will handle multiple pdfs, firefox tabs and word documents at a time without any slowdown whatsoever, and 1080p videos. I do not expect it to be able to do more than that. I don't want anything Apple as I consider it to be a closed ecosystem and I prefer W7. Things like speaker/mic mute and wireless on/off switch buttons are a plus. Does such a beast exist? Can anyone out there help me find it?

PS: My budget is £1000 max!
PS2: I currently have a Thinkpad SL410 which I think is okay, but I still find the keyboard to have too much flex sometimes and not enough of the response I need from it.


thx

Andrei23
 
macbooks have stellar keyboards. and with the intel chips you can run windows in a virtual machine if you really need it.
 
I need it to be powerful enough so that it will handle multiple pdfs, firefox tabs and word documents at a time without any slowdown whatsoever, and 1080p videos.


i can honestly tell you, those are easy specs in todays world. any 2GHz+ dual core can run 1080p video these days with room to spare, if you use a proper codec pack (such as CCCP)

PDF's and firefox tabs really only mean you want 2GB+ ram. 4GB is cheaply obtained, and will also give you plenty of room to spare, for other running applications.


realistically, your only difficult requirement is the keyboard.
 
If you didn't like the Macbook keyboard, then you are probably going to be very hard to please. It is probably the best laptop keyboard around.
 
the HP mini 311 is 11.6' but no keyboard flex, light, powerful (with 3gb ram), extremely fast on XP and 1080P no problem!
 
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