 So I have this new thing that's been on my desk for a couple days, and I want to talk about it. This is a Lenovo think pad USB travel keyboard, and obviously I'm not using it as a travel keyboard I'm actually just using it as my main keyboard These things are actually sort of hard to find I look them up on eBay and stuff like that You can get one for 80 bucks or something like that Amazon didn't even have this model the specific model is SK where's it SK 8 8? 4 5 cr now how did I get this thing now firstly you know if you watch this channel? I hate mice. I do not use a mouse It is so annoying to have to go over when you're getting something done to use a mouse It's so nice. It's like a superpower Having a track point because you don't even you could type and use the mouse at the same time It's crazy. So the keyboard that I've used for you know a year or two maybe Is this thing here? It's the Endura Pro the Unicomp Endura Pro. I very much like this thing It's an old buckling spring keyboard I did a review on it that it has a couple drawbacks It doesn't have a middle mouse button and there are a couple things that you know aren't perfect But I love this thing and I've used it for a long time when I did a video on this a Subscriber emailed me and said hey, I have one of these things. It's on my shelf. It's not doing anything And I can't get it to work with Windows. So could you use it? And I was like sure sure I'll take it absolutely. Thank you. So thank you Richard in the UK for sending this in So I've been playing with this for a couple days and first off, of course It didn't work on Windows. He couldn't get the drivers for it or something like that But you know the night people always say about Linux. Well, Linux sucks because it doesn't have drivers correct Linux does not have drivers because you just plug things in and they work. That's how it works Okay, anything USB is just gonna magically work on it Linux. That's how it's monolithic kernel kids That's you know, that's the benefits of it. So I plug this thing in works very great Couple things about it's build. I'll go ahead and say it feels very sturdy That's hard to communicate just with the picture, but I'll tell you it feels sturdy But it also feels like way lighter than you think it's gonna be okay. This thing's very skinny It is I mean it definitely weighs less than this book. All right. It is not it's not heavy I mean it truly is a travel keyboard. Okay, so let's look at the back of it You'll notice it does have these little stands here So you can you know have it flat if you prefer that you can have the smaller Stands I like the big ones. Okay, I like it I like it at a nice angle when I'm typing. That's what I prefer notice also it has this. This is a very nice thing I feel like this is very nice that they squeeze this in but the ability to take the cord and sort of wrap it up If you really want to travel with it, it works pretty well Just to be able to I hate it when I'm going through a bag and there's just like Cords all over the place. This is just a very nice alternative and I will note that the cord is very long Like I have sat here, you know, put my feet up and stuff like that and I'll work You know not being pretty far from my computer and it's a great thing Not only to be able to use your keyboard far away, but also this little track point. Okay, excuse me corona So notice also this this palm rest is very big. It might be confusing They're actually more modern versions of them. I think if you go looking I think there are like versions This is all gonna be only this model But there are there are other travel keyboards Lenovo travel keyboards that have less of a palm rest I really like the big palm rest because it puts your hands at an angle when you're doing this stuff And I don't know I very prefer it So here note. Look at this keyboard. Okay. Is there something missing? Do you know post it in the comments if you don't see what it is? It's for the algorithm kids No, okay. What's the thing you don't see you don't see windows keys. No windows keys So when I first saw that I was like, oh shoot. That's a big problem. Okay, because I use You know my setup. I have everything configured to some kind of shortcut key Nearly all of them involve holding down windows and pressing one of these buttons Like every single button when you hold down windows is a map to some kind of shortcut on my computer because that's how I roll It's a great. It's a great life to live. All right So I need a windows key Thankfully, I Actually don't need a windows key and that's because of this thing here caps lock. So a while ago Since I'm a Vim user, I switch escape and caps lock because it's nice having escape down here So this usually functions as an escape, but there's also a little Program on Linux that I've used for a long time called xcape and you can tell it. All right Make it so basically what you can tell it to do is if you just press this key It functions as escape, but if you hold it down and press something else, okay So I just held that down and pressed D and that brings up my D menu prompt Okay, I can get rid of that bring it up again. Okay, so I don't need a windows key I can actually just hold down caps lock and do any of the shortcuts that I otherwise do. Okay, you know Get rid of the borders and you know stuff like that. All right Or toggle the borders. So that that's actually not a big problem at all So it's just you know new getting used to this one keyboard. There's another thing I have This is my keyboard mapping file this little script that runs on startup This other thing I have here actually detects to see I'm doing a screencast without screencasting for my screen in this video You'll notice that I actually have this thing detect whether it's this keyboard is attached and Then it runs these two commands. What are these two commands? Well, I realize that although everything works on this there are a couple things There are a couple default settings. I don't like like specifically specifically the middle mouse the middle mouse button works It pastes stuff in or clicks on stuff but really the default functionality on a Thinkpad is you hold it down and you can you can hold it down and then move the track point and that's scrolling Okay, so you can scroll up and down. All right By default that is not how this works. It doesn't do that. So these lines at the end basically say all right So activate that feature. That's all that is. There's probably some way to have it permanent Like set it permanently in your your system configuration, but I didn't bother to look it up either way this way works I'll also say that the the The mouse moves a little bit slow. I feel like it's a little bit So here's me moving around nearly at top speed on this keyboard Whereas here's me moving around on top top speed with my desktop or my laptop keep Mouse or whatever. I think I just said the wrong word. Who cares? So I feel like this mouse is a lot faster than this one So it's a little different, but it's not been a big problem Like I just sort of get over it now the only the only problem real problem I can say with this keyboard and it's not like a deal breaker for me is if I'm using caps lock as super which again is a Pretty rarefied thing to do, but if I have a keyboard shortcut that has both caps lock and shift Sometimes the the third key I press won't go through. It's a key rollover problem. That's a problem You often have on keyboards now. I can just use right shift and and caps lock and it'll work But it's just a couple keys like for example if I hold down You know normally if I hold down shift and caps lock and I press to that moves the window to the second The second workspace, but that actually doesn't go through here So you got to use right shift or something like that, you know Just just little things like that. None of it is a big problem. So I can't really fault it for this I'll also say one key this little key up here this mister key. Here's here's the interesting thing I've I haven't seen this before But let me go over. I have an instance of zev pulled up and this little zev What zev is it monitors key presses and stuff. So if I move let's say I press some keys It's gonna show it's gonna tell you like what keys were pressed and stuff like that Here's the interesting thing all these keys like you press the volume keys on this thing. All right It'll show you it'll generate. Well, whatever is being pressed. Okay, so wait now. It's oh, yeah I gotta move my mouse over so it'll it'll show you whatever is getting pressed. Okay, but if I press this mysterious settings key Nothing actually happens. So this key is actually not I guess this is something where you know Linux doesn't automatically detect this key, which is weird because it detects all these other ones But so I'm not quite sure about that But in general, that's that's pretty much it. I really like this thing I might you know, I don't want to say I'm still gonna be using this but I'm using this more and more I don't know. Maybe I will here's the other thing. Okay, look at this Lenovo Lenovo Lenovo it looks like I'm a fanboy. I'm basically an Apple I'm like the anti Apple user because these are like the most anti Apple Products in the entire world. Although. I'll also say my screen and those of you who know That was actually a gift from a subscriber as well. So wow, look at that. I'm like, it's just my subscribers use Lenovo So yeah, I really like this thing. I think you should check it out. Obviously, they look pretty rare It seems like 80 bucks seems pretty pricey frankly for Like a teeny tiny keyboard. I think it was you know, this one's closer to 100 I sort of like well, I don't know is it I'm divided. Hey, you you make your call if you want to buy something like this But just know that it's out there if you're looking for some kind of keyboard with that doesn't require a mouse I haven't really taken this around that much Obviously the key the thing on the back makes that easier, but honestly, this might function as a good desktop Equivalent like I I don't know. It's pretty seamless Either way, I want to see I think there was some other joke that I was gonna make I totally forgot about it Dang well anyway, I'm just chilling with my Lenovo stuff. So I'll see you guys next time