This 1.9 mm
travel chiclet keyboard is among the finest I have seen.
Not exact matches
The keyboard base houses
Chiclet - style keys with vertical
travel that is only modest, though more than we expected from such a thin keyboard chassis.
You get a full
Chiclet - style isolated keyboard; the keys are a reasonable size and have clear space between them but it feels more cramped than the keyboard on a Dell Mini 10 or an HP netbook and while they have some
travel the action isn't as good as more traditional netbook keyboards.
The
chiclet system makes the keys easy and smooth to type on, and because of its depth,
travel for each key is rather small.
Asus also went back to the lab on the mushy
Chiclet keys, bumping the key
travel up to a good 1.5 millimeters, with 79 grams of force actuation.
Key
travel is only 0.8 mm, but the
chiclet keys don't feel mushy in the way in some other laptop keyboards do.
The
chiclet keys have a curved design that makes them easier to type on, key
travel is just about perfect and you won't feel like you're bottoming out when you hit the deck, and there are three levels of backlighting to help you work in the dark.
The
chiclet keys have a slight cupping to them and spacing is comfortable, but key
travel is limited.
In addition to the regular spec bumps, we also see improvements to the included leather - bound Folio keyboard like in key
travel, efficiently - managed backlighting, the use of
chiclets, a more substantial trackpad and the magnetic connector's design reduced down from seven pins to three.
Logitech says the
chiclet - style keys provide 1.4 millimeters of key
travel, and, as suggested by the name of the case, are indeed backlit.
The keyboard action doesn't seem to be affected, however, and we were happy to clatter out words, with good
travel from those
chiclet keys.