I need suggestions as to where to get a replacement laptop keyboard

[Erik Price]

brian wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 09:40, bscott at ntisys.com wrote:
> 
>>  "Five-hundred and five dollars!?!  For adjusting a valve??" exclaims the
>>manager.
> 
> 
> Once upon a time a company charged too much for a keyboard.
> Why?
> Because they could.
> 
> I guess you can look at it both ways (not meaning to be too negative...)

But I thought Ben was trying to say that this company invested some 
[potentially significant] resources studying the physiology of the human 
hand, and devising an innovative keyboard that minimizes the strain 
associated with typing.  I've seen one of these keyboards up close when 
a friend showed it to me, they are not run-of-the-mill pieces of 
plastic.  As just one example of how these keyboards might even cost 
more to build, in the concave dome-shaped recesses where the keys are 
housed, just about every key depresses in a different direction.  It 
must be difficult to mount the keys onto the housing.  I don't know much 
about it (perhaps Richard could shed more light on it), but it seems to 
me that this company didn't just make another clone of the classic 
10x-key keyboard to make a buck, and you're paying for the expertise 
that was invested in coming up with the design.


Erik