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New Keyboard for a 12"
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Join Date: May 2004
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I was wondering if there were any companies out there that sold alternate keyboards for a 12" Rev C Powerbook given that you can simply take it right off, reconnect a different one to the logic board, and (I'm assuming) have it work just fine. The stock one Apple supplies is too... clackety. If you have a typing speed of anything over 60WPM it sounds like an old-style typewriter and is extremely disturbing. I want something quieter and preferably more sturdy like the one IBM includes with their Thinkpad series. Any leads?
(Yes, I know I can just buy an external keyboard. That would kind of defeat the point of a laptop in the first place.)
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I don't think it is that easy to remove the keyboard. It at least needs two keycaps to be popped off, and some screws to be undone. It's not needed to be removed to access the ram slot anymore, you see.
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Originally posted by iMacfan:
I don't think it is that easy to remove the keyboard. It at least needs two keycaps to be popped off, and some screws to be undone. It's not needed to be removed to access the ram slot anymore, you see.
I know. I've done it before when replacing my HDD. 
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PB G4 12" 1.5GHz/1.2GB/100GB/SuperDrive/AE/Mac OS X Tiger
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Originally posted by wunderkind:
TouchStream MacNTouch keyboard.
Installing 12" keyboard is relatively easy compared to 15" or 17". See pdf's on their site.
Well, it's nice. And great. And perfect. And yet... I kind of take issue with the fact that it costs about a fifth as much as the laptop itself. Woe is me, for I am a starving college student.
Any cheaper alternatives? I don't really have need for anything as intuitive and customizable as the keyboard shown above. Thanks for the suggestion though. 
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The placement of the delete button as 1/2 of the spacebar is slightly disturbing.
As far as keyboard replacements, I don't know of any, so sorry; but I don't really find the keyboard all the noisy and I usually type pretty fast. It is one of the quietest keyboards I've had, and you could have much worse. It doesn't "clang" unless you bang on the keys; a light touch is all it takes to press a key.
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Join Date: May 2004
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haha i thought this would be a rumor of a new pb12 lighted keyboard or something .. with all the rumors floating around about revision d
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I know adding an iSkin keyboard protector is a cheap alternative to muffling the sound. It'll still be there but much less sound will be heard. It runs cheap to other alternatives and protects your PB incase you spill anything near it.
Click Here for iSkin
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NOW YOU SEE ME! 2.4 MBP and 2.0 MBP (running ubuntu)
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