Comment - I have a Pavilion Laptop Keyboard

[TommyRosewood]

Comment - I have a Pavillion laptop (from my company) with a silver frame and silver keyboard with moderately gray lettering.  When you have direct light (in particular sunlight) shining on the keyboard you can't see the key letters/numbers.  It is almost useless.  You can't see the letters/numbers.  I don't have any issue with the any other aspect of the laptop. Key sensitivity is good.  Before you ask, turing on the backlighting makes it actually harder to identify the specific keys.

However, I also have a laptop from Dell, that has a dark charcoal frame and keyboard, with white lettering.  Where it's easy to see the lettering.

I definitely couldn't recommend any laptop (or any computer) with silver keys and moderately gray lettering.

Sorry for the rant.

[erico]

Comment on your comment

"I definitely couldn't recommend any laptop (or any computer) with silver keys and moderately gray lettering."

I will go out on a limb and say that to the majority of people, the color of letters on a keyboard do not denote the quality and utility of a laptop. The color of the letters certainly do not make it useless. 🤔

[TommyRosewood]

You missed the point. It's the color of the letters on the silver keys, not just the color themselves. When direct light hits the keys you can't see (distinguish) the letters.  The keys operate fine (tough and feel), the layout is fine (maybe the delete button could be larger, but that's personal preference). I'm sitting at my desk at this moment, and sun is shining in the window, and I can't tell the "E" from the "R".  Yes, I have been typing for many years, and yes, I can generally hit them in my sleep, but they are just hard to see and it would be better if there was more contrast. And white letters on a dark color keyboard (which HP has on other computers) can be seen in any light.

Sorry, if it seemed I was recommending that some should not buy an HP computer, just computer keyboards with the silver keys are hard to use in bright light.  And yes it will be a factor (not the only one) when I buy my next computer. It makes the computer harder to use.

[erico]

Perhaps in the next evolution of business laptop purchase, moving to an enterprise grade laptop instead of a mainstream consumer grade laptop might be a better plan.