What Is a Chiclet Keyboard?

Chocolate keyboard means that under the standard of 92% full-size keyboard, a chocolate bar independent keycap is used, so that each key is placed on the keyboard base as if the chocolate bar floats on the water.

Notebook chocolate keyboard won the international industrial design award-the highest award of the German Red Dot Design Award 2009-

Similarities and differences between `` chocolate '' and `` island style '' Most media and users confuse chocolate keyboard and island-style keyboard, or collectively For ... ^[1]

The reason why everyone put these popular notebook keyboard designs

1.Flat island keyboard

Advantages : easy to clean and no nails

Cons : Small keycap

The mobile terminal equipment has developed rapidly in recent years. The product welcomed by the market is constantly developing rapidly. There are various types of keyboards. The main types of mobile device keyboards are summarized, and their advantages and disadvantages are analyzed. ^[2]

It can be traced back to the earliest design of electronic calculators, CASIO, SHARP and other mobile devices.

Now considered by most to be a `` chocolate '' keyboard

1. The gap between the keys must be cleaned on time to prevent the keys from springing back in time or even from dust or small debris. The design of the chocolate keyboard is a disaster for users. This is not obvious at first, but it will become more obvious after a long period of use (more than one year).

2. Removed some uncommon function keys such as Break.

3. May cause problems for certain users, such as DOS users. ^[2]