Keycaps for laptop

[Arngriim]

Greetings,

I bought a laptop OMEN (OMEN from HP - 15-ce082ns). But I made a mistake and did not notice it was a model with Spanish keyboard layout.

I'm used to switch the keycaps on normal keyboards (mechanical desktop). a very straightforward process.

My questions are:

- Is it also easy to change the keycaps on a laptop (without losing the warranty)?

- Where can I get / buy keycaps (portuguese layout) for my laptop (OMEN by HP - 15-ce082ns)?

Best regards

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

No it is very hard to swap keycaps. Hard to do one, let alone all of them.  And different keyboard languages have different key layouts. For example a US and UK English keyboard have very different enter keys and the surrounding keys as also not exactly the same size and shape. 

The keyboard itself is included as part of the top cover. HP does not sell just a keyboard as a replacement part. This is the part:

For use in Portugal 929479-131

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ersatzteil-HP-929479-131-Top-Cover-W-Tp-Kb-Tdb-Port-E/143096163617?hash=i...

Let us know if there are other questions. 

[Arngriim]

Bollocks. Guess I will have to get used to it... =(

Thank you anyway.

Best regards

[Arngriim]

Afterall replacing/switching the keycaps is very easy.

like so:    h**ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbcb8phz7qI

Only problem is geting the caps. hope it helps anyone with a similar problem

[Huffer]

Look carefully. This is very labor intensive, fine work. The only thing that is very easy is to accidentally break the little pieces trying to get them mounted.  I have spent a lot of lost time trying to replace laptop keys. Just one can take 20-30 minutes and this does not account for what I said that if you want to change languages, the keys themselves are not the same so you can't just move the keys over from one language keyboard to another.