{"id":90870,"date":"2019-05-17T12:27:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T19:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/xps-15-2-in-1s-maglev-keyboard-may-find-its-way-into-other-dell-laptops-frank-azor"},"modified":"2019-05-17T12:27:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T19:27:58","slug":"xps-15-2-in-1s-maglev-keyboard-may-find-its-way-into-other-dell-laptops-frank-azor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/xps-15-2-in-1s-maglev-keyboard-may-find-its-way-into-other-dell-laptops-frank-azor","title":{"rendered":"XPS 15 2-in-1\u2019s maglev keyboard may find its way into other Dell laptops \u2014 Frank Azor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/xps-15-2-in-1s-maglev-keyboard-may-find-its-way-into-other-dell-laptops-frank-azor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Much ado has been made of Dell\u2019s new maglev keyboard, currently exclusive to the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Kr3VCn\">XPS 15 9575 2-in-1<\/a>. Utilizing rare-earth magnets to repulse the keys back up once depressed, the keyboard still provides a decent amount of feedback despite its meager 0.7mm of travel.<\/p>\n<p>In a late March webcast for Dell\u2019s new products, the company\u2019s Vice President &amp; General Manager Alienware, Gaming and XPS, Frank Azor, mentioned that the keyboard could be adopted in more of Dell\u2019s laptops \u2014 if it proves popular.<\/p>\n<p>The major advantage of design is that it allows the laptop to be thinner, but not everyone is a fan. Though it provides more travel and feedback than Apple\u2019s much-maligned \u201cbutterfly\u201d keyboard, initial reviews suggest that the keyboard is basically tolerable, but it isn\u2019t going to replace a ThinkPad\u2019s keyboard anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultrabookreview.com\/19920-xps-15-2-in-1s-maglev-keyboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much ado has been made of Dell\u2019s new maglev keyboard, currently exclusive to the XPS 15 9575 2-in-1. Utilizing rare-earth magnets to repulse the keys back up once depressed, the keyboard still provides a decent amount of feedback despite its meager 0.7mm of travel. In a late March webcast for Dell\u2019s new products, the company\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}