laptop keyboard flexing - how to get rid of?

[Milkin_it]

A friend of mine bought a new laptop just about a week ago for school (Toshiba M60) I think she said it was. Anyways, she says the keyboard flexes way too much and when she types it throws her off because you press one key and you hear and feel the keyboard sink in or basically bounce off. Just too much play and not solid like some laptops, like Apple . Now I know this is normal in plastic laptops, hence would explain why Apple does not suffer from this sort of problem due to the all metal frame, but she says its a bit overboard.

She called the place she bought it at, and they said this is normal in this line, but they said what she could do is, take thin small pieces of paper and cut them in squares and place them just under the keyboard, in between that and the back frame. Is this safe? From what I heard you can fry your Dimm's. The guy even said alot of people use double sided tape. But they said as long as you don't cover the open vents/holes where you can visibly see any part of the mobo (chips/ram etc), it should be fine, and the optical drive would be fine as well since it doesn't draw much heat. Basically the paper should only be touching the metal frame/casing - no sensors, cables, etc.

She even went into the store, and tested out another one and it was just as bad she said. So changing it for another one, will do nothing. She wants to stick with Toshiba as she has had previous good experiences with them - but it was the Tecra series line, the ones built like IBMs from what I have heard. She sold her old Tecras because she found it too expensive for her needs and how much she really used it.

[Milkin_it]

[sfu_lifer]

A friend of mine bought a new laptop just about a week ago for school (Toshiba M60) I think she said it was. Anyways, she says the keyboard flexes way too much and when she types it throws her off because you press one key and you hear and feel the keyboard sink in or basically bounce off. Just too much play and not solid like some laptops, like Apple . Now I know this is normal in plastic laptops, hence would explain why Apple does not suffer from this sort of problem due to the all metal frame, but she says its a bit overboard.

She called the place she bought it at, and they said this is normal in this line, but they said what she could do is, take thin small pieces of paper and cut them in squares and place them just under the keyboard, in between that and the back frame. Is this safe? From what I heard you can fry your Dimm's. The guy even said alot of people use double sided tape. But they said as long as you don't cover the open vents/holes where you can visibly see any part of the mobo (chips/ram etc), it should be fine, and the optical drive would be fine as well since it doesn't draw much heat. Basically the paper should only be touching the metal frame/casing - no sensors, cables, etc.

She even went into the store, and tested out another one and it was just as bad she said. So changing it for another one, will do nothing. She wants to stick with Toshiba as she has had previous good experiences with them - but it was the Tecra series line, the ones built like IBMs from what I have heard. She sold her old Tecras because she found it too expensive for her needs and how much she really used it.

Is carrying around an external usb kb out of the question? There are some small slim ones nowadays. Sure it's a little annoying but at least you're not modding the system and hoping what you did doesn't break anything else

[Milkin_it]

wtf, why would she do tjhat? geez, hello thats the point of a laptop.

[Hellfire]

Remove the keyboard and stick a whole bunch of tape (the two sided thick kind) and just don't take the pastic off the top side so it doesn't stick to the keys.

[Txiasaeia]

Heh, is it too late to suggest not cheaping out on a laptop and getting a Thinkpad?

[Milkin_it]

Remove the keyboard and stick a whole bunch of tape (the two sided thick kind) and just don't take the pastic off the top side so it doesn't stick to the keys.

ya heard about this one, or kleenex. But I heard the heat wil make the goo off the tape melt. is that true?

[duckdown]

Heh, is it too late to suggest not cheaping out on a laptop and getting a Thinkpad?

1/10 for this suggestion

clearly a biased, uninformed opinion

you can acquire a new Turion core 64 bit processor based laptop from AMD ensuring you are futureproff at literally a fraction of the price intel and friends (cough, dell) are intent on charging, all for under a g ($1000CDN)

[cnbc]

1/10 for this suggestion

clearly a biased, uninformed opinion

you can acquire a new Turion core 64 bit processor based laptop from AMD ensuring you are futureproff at literally a fraction of the price intel and friends (cough, dell) are intent on charging, all for under a g ($1000CDN)

At the cost of shorter run time and less brand name choices. A casual user like OP's friend has no need for 64 bit (cough, marketing, cough) notebooks. No notebook today supports 4GB of memory anyways.

[Hellfire]

Here is a complete guild to fixing the keyboard:

http://spiike.shadowdragon.net/keyboardfix.htm