>I walked into an ASUS store

there's your problem @porco

it extra doesn't work in taiwan because people pronounce "asus" as "uh soos" here

Uh sauce

I wanted to buy a laptop in Taiwan but once I arrived it wasn't available on pchome anymore. Also, Taichung sucks for electronics and I won't be back in Taipei this year

I wanted the Lenovo 120s. Why buy it in Taiwan? Because I'm learning bopomofo and I wanted it with a bopomofo keyboard

So I went to the Asus store since there's a 11" vivo which is similar cheap but they didn't have it and I would have need to order it (4 days waiting, flight is on Sat)

What's bopomofo

Taiwanese way of typing Chinese characters

It's just a phonetic alphabet for Chinese characters, mainly used in Taiwan

In China it's not used, they use pinyin instead

But apparently zhuyin/bopomofo is easier once you get used to it and I wanted to make a serious commitment in learning it

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Thank god my gf isn't chink, wouldn't want to learn that

>he doesn't chinkshit everything in his life

Probably wouldn't say no to a nice chinky gf if I didn't have one

@porco could buy some old thinkpad/dell latitude/other easily replaceble keyboard and buy a tw keyboard for it

>people still buy laptops other than thinkpads

😬

>thinkpads >lenovo

>ever

Thinkpads are okay
-sent from thinkpad

>implying there's anything better

Sighh mods

😬

Dell>chinkpad @Millwood

Haven't had a Dell yet tbh

I need clitmouse

same

I wonder if I could make it work with non chinkpad components

like just buy the keyboard and slap it on a 3d printed body

Which I've decided to make since I like my laptop (asides from screen resolution), but it's just chipping away and I am afraid people at my school will laugh at me

@porco that key layout is dumb af, why on earth would you not have the small enter and a short spacebar if you badly need extra keys

BEHOLD

The holy grail of laptop keyboards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9DjJ7sYWic

Whose idea was it to fucking abandon this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_ThinkPad_Butterfly_keyboard

moving parts = break city

also, the way that they can't inset the keyboard into the laptop just makes it fatter

thinner and wider imho is better than fatter and narrower

especially when you can't get the narrower profile when deploying and the advantage only comes when using a 4:3 which you can't find anymore