increase Macbook Pro M4 keyboard travel distance?

[lakeyoak]

I just "upgraded" from my home MBP Mid-2012 to a MBP M4 and these keyboards are very very different.

At work, I have a HP wired keyboard (excellent) as well as separate laptop, Dell Latitude 5420 (excellent excellent keyboard)

The MBP M4 low profile keycaps are not comfortable, slippery with cheapy material and generally just too slim with not enough travel... they're also not quiet and more click-clacky than desirable. That Dell has a wonderful keyboard (and is also light, slim, and has lots of ports)

Are there any custom MBP keyboards or custom keycaps with more travel distance that are available to replace these? Apple needs to rethink these keyboards (again)....

 

[russell_314]

I just "upgraded" from my home MBP Mid-2012 to a MBP M4 and these keyboards are very very different.

At work, I have a HP wired keyboard (excellent) as well as separate laptop, Dell Latitude 5420 (excellent excellent keyboard)

The MBP M4 low profile keycaps are not comfortable, slippery with cheapy material and generally just too slim with not enough travel... they're also not quiet and more click-clacky than desirable. That Dell has a wonderful keyboard (and is also light, slim, and has lots of ports)

Are there any custom MBP keyboards or custom keycaps with more travel distance that are available to replace these? Apple needs to rethink these keyboards (again)....

To my knowledge, there are no custom laptop keyboards because it’s not like you can just pop them off and put them back on.

If you have enough money, you can have anything made so if you feel it’s that important to you I’m sure you can get someone to make it. Of course something like that would be very expensive.

You could use a USB or Bluetooth external keyboard.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

This is one effect of the perpetual "thinner" focus, which is also what delivered the butterfly keyboard mess too for a few years.

Your best path to what you want would be third party keyboard that feels good to you and use it perhaps with this MBpro in clamshell mode or perhaps prop the MBpro up on a stand (one of many examples) to mostly use the monitor and sub in this keyboard. I think there may be a few stands like that that will also give you some spare USB ports (example and example 2 (of several)) and similar and maybe some m.2 storage too. If not with m.2, you can always make it by picking one of the many stands and adding a hub with m.2 storage (if you want it).

That doesn't help much when mobile (traditional laptop use) but maybe you take the keyboard too in the bag and sub it in when it makes sense?