Vortex III keyboard dropping keypresses

hig

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I bought a Vortex III 15" with backlit Keyboard a few months back and while I'm overall very happy with the unit, I find the keyboard to be pretty bad at registering keypresses. I type at a pretty high WPM being a software developer and I find that my errors on this keyboard are drastically higher in quantity than they are on other laptops/desktops I have.

I have found that the spacebar is notorious for not registering keypresses. I can say with certainty that the corners of the spacebar never register key presses.

With other keys I press the keys till I hear a "click" sound of the keys bottoming out, however, in about 1/20th of keypresses, no press is registered on my machine. This leads to a large amount of wasted time having to track back and fix mistakes.

I'm wondering if this is a problem that anyone else has experienced or if it's A) a hardware issue or B) my typing style. (This is not the case with the spacebar which 100% of the time misses keypresses in the corners)

Thanks
-David
 

hargil

Silver Level Poster
this is the reason I have been delaying my order.
along with concerns that a v3 has boot issues if a USB device is plugged in on power up (such as a USB mouse dongle)

but pcs have assured me this issue is not a system issue so I am ok about that now, just the keyboard issues gets a lot of mentions...
 
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