hp 50G build quality in today's standards (2018)

[TravisE]

To be fair, I don't recall having key bounce problems on the 50g at all, and the unreliability of keypress registration on my older 50g only showed up fairly recently in time (I'm not sure why, since it spent most of its time just sitting there). If anything, setting a nonzero KEYTIME often results in an intended rapid double-presses getting missed.

The real problem I have with keyboard reliability seems to have more to do with the bugs in the 50g's OS than the keyboard itself. Most commonly, I'll happen to press a key at the exact instant as the last keystroke is finished being processed by the system (which apparently happens a lot more often than one might expect), causing the new key to get “missed”, only to get processed along with the key pressed afterwards—even if that is minutes later. On occasion, I'll also have the backspace and arrow keys get logically “stuck” and continue to repeat after being released, apparently also due to software bugs. It is absolutely infuriating.