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by SamReidHughes 5141 days ago
I've used the X120e keyboard too. You can count me as another enthusiastic supporter of at least its equality with previous Thinkpad keyboards. I type a lot on it. It is definitely not worse. The force curves are disturbingly similar. If you press a key on an X120e and W520 and compare (which I'm doing as I write this post), you'll find the main noticeable difference in the sound the key makes. If you put the X120e force curve on keys that looked and sounded like the W520 keys, none of the Thinkpad keyboard complainers would notice the difference. If you put that keyboard side by side with an actual W520 keyboard and called the new version a "snappier" response to the Thinkpad keyboard (and possibly made some implications that it harkened back to the older Thinkpad keyboards), people would say they liked it and that this is what the Thinkpad is all about.
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Thanks! I'm more hopeful that maybe I won't have to resort to a older generation model when I upgrade (which is in the near future).