[ornxka]

Am I the only one who thinks that no travel + tactile feedback actually sound like two highly desirable properties for a keyboard? Whenever I use someone else's butterfly keyboard I'm impressed and a bit jealous, but as I've never used one for long, I can't say whether it's really an improvement.

[wildrhythms]

I'm favorable to keyboards with minimal key travel, and the MBP with its butterfly keys- initially- was amazing. The problem is that after just a few months of regular use some keys started double-activating, or some keys require extra force to activate. And due to the nature of the keys, they were difficult to clean free of regular dust/grime.

[protomyth]

No travel gets you the Atari 400 keyboard and that just hurts your hands.

[dkjaudyeqooe]

I think if it had a really crisp click and actually worked people would like it. I certainly would. The amount of travel is pretty irrelevant if you get solid feedback.

[hombre_fatal]

Yeah, the ultra-thin keyboard would have been fine for me if it stayed crisp and clicky for the lifespan of the laptop. It could just barely deliver a small fraction of that.

The butterfly keyboard implementation was just too fragile, for one. Keyboards need to be able to take a beating.

[FPGAhacker]

I actually like the feel, and later versions didn't sound like a thundering herd. But it was just so unreliable that it was completely not worth it.

[dylan604]

No travel sounds like you just want a giant touch bar with the layout of the keyboard.

[skocznymroczny]

Except touch bars have no tactile feedback and can't feel the separate keys.

I like about very low travel time keyboards is that the keys have only two states - pressed or not pressed. With mechanical and other high rise keyboards you have these awkward transitions, where the key activates around halfway through the travel time. So you either stop before the activation point and miss the keystroke, or you overpress the key, bottom out and slow your typing rate dramatically.