I would love to see the classic 7-row Thinkpad keyboard on the Librem 13/15, but I’m pretty sure that Lenovo prevents the OEMs that made its 7-row keyboards (ALPS, Chicony and NMB) from selling them to anyone else. Purism makes a custom motherboard for its laptops, but Purism has to buy what is available for a lot of its components like keyboards, and since nobody makes 7-row keyboards, Purism can’t get them. A big company like Lenovo can get OEMs to make anything it wants, but a company like Purism that sells a couple thousand laptops per year can’t do that.
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