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Nov 22, 2017
Not the same as the factory keyboard
1 of 1 found this helpful I bought this keyboard to replace the one on my laptop because keys were sticking and I had enough. My first impression of this keyboard was that the plastic surrounding the keys is a shiny black whereas the one from the factory is a matte black. So aesthetic wise it’s not the same. I also noticed the white labeling for the keys was rushed and looked very bad, but again this was just an aesthetic issue. Moving on to the actual installation was easy. The plug is different from the factory keyboard and looked cheaply made. You have to insert it correctly and if it’s off by a little bit then the keyboard won’t work correctly or the keys map to others. The factory keyboard did not have this issue. Once I installed it and made sure the keys mapped correctly I opened up a text editor to try out all the keys and I noticed the biggest issue was that you had to press on the keys dead center or they would not register. This was super annoying because the factory keyboard works flawlessly and you can hit keys from the corner and they would still work. For a cheap $12 keyboard, I wasn’t expecting much but I at least hoped for a great replacement for my factory one. I didn’t return this because I needed a keyboard ASAP, but I plan to buy the real deal from HP and get a real one.