Current design fads in laptops that you hate.

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Chicklet keyboards aren't that bad. No complaints from me about the keyboard on my Sager NP8170 with the exception of not having a backlight option.

[Pseudorandom]

I think there is a bit of nostalgia filter for chiclet haters. Before chiclet keyboards became popular, there were crappy keyboards with traditional style keycaps too. Now all of those manufacturers switched from making crappy keyboards with traditional style keycaps to making crappy keyboards with chiclet style ones.

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I think there is a bit of nostalgia filter for chiclet haters. Before chiclet keyboards became popular, there were crappy keyboards with traditional style keycaps too. Now all of those manufacturers switched from making crappy keyboards with traditional style keycaps to making crappy keyboards with chiclet style ones.

I tend to agree with this. It's not so much the design, but rather the quality that makes the difference.

Going to comment on stickers/case badges next. I like having case badges on my systems, but agree with some of the previous comments regarding placement....the palm rest is a horrible place to put case badges or just abut any other decal for that matter. When I ordered my Sager, I had XoticPC remove all branding which resulted in removal of stickers under the 'hood' as well (I think it was just the 'HDMI' sticker). Wanting to 'show-off' what hardware my system is sporting, I ordered a couple case badges from ebay, a black intel i7 badge and the other an ATI Radeon badge. I put these across from each other on either side of the keyboard to help fill in some of that wasted space .

[Type 100]

Things I dislike about current laptops:
- Buttonless touchpads...seriously, only Apple pulls this off well
- Mediocre TN displays. I don't mind 1366x768 that much, I just want better color with less dependency on the angle
- Silver-painted plastic, especially on high-wear areas where it just chips/rubs off
- Glossy screens...I don't mind a glossy bezel but the screen should be matte
- Half-height keys. HP does this with the up/down keys on the nav cluster.
- Fn key on the bottom left corner
- Mushy keyboards
- Displays/lids without enough reinforcement

I think I'll stop there.

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Regarding all of the complaints about glossy screens. While I prefer a matte screen for glare reduction, the color vibrancy and text clarity of a glossy screen is simply superior. Blacks are also richer and unaffected by the backlighting. I have yet to run into any situation/environment where the glare from the glossy screen was overwhelming.

[Sphinx]

I have yet to find a chicklet style that is even remotely decent.

[V_Chip]

Glossy trackpads.

Yuck.

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I have yet to find a chicklet style that is even remotely decent.

Ever used one of the current gen Clevo/Sagers? Their keyboards are just fine imo.

[Pseudorandom]

The X1 chiclet is excellent.

We have different standards of decent. You're probably used to lower quality keyboards so they don't bother you as much as they bother a person that is used to typing on a really good keyboard. It's sorta like how I don't really care that my earbuds are pretty crappy while an audiophile can't stand listening to them.

Personally, I draw my line of decent at the X120e keyboard. A bit shorter depth than the typical Thinkpad chiclet, but the rest of the typing characteristics are good, and the keycap design is still logical (curve bottom, dimple in center, etc) even if its a chiclet. Most of the business laptop keyboards are pretty good with a few exceptions. Most everything else is crap tier.

[Sphinx]

I have tried budget laptops to high end asus, apple, sony, and sager and none feel right. In fact the only ones that seem like I could use if they were the only style left on this planet was the vostro and the thinkpad x series. But even then they were still terrible. So no its not a budget based concern, rather its the entire genre of chicklet keyboards that bother me. As for the keyboards I use, well Im an avid dell business and thinkpad user so I only use the best keyboards in the world.

I kinda think about it like touchpads, when they were released I thought "now thats cool!" But once I used one I instantly hated them and despite the technology advancements they have done to touchpads decades later I still hate them. In fact in the past 8 years I have always disabled them for a trackpoint/pointstick or external.

So yeah chicklet is just sadly a popular trend I wont ever like. Sorry yall.

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