I would be willing to pay to fix the keyboard BIOS problem

[chx1975]

If someone would be willing to work to hack the T430/T530/surely upcoming T440/T540 BIOS to accomodate the old keyboard, I would pay for your work. I am sure others would chip in too.

[CottlestonPie]

I'm also very interested in this for the T430s (the principle ought to be much the same across the Txxx ranges), and am more than willing to pay. A fully-functional 7-row T420s keyboard+bezel/palmrest would be heaven. It's starting to drive me up the wall not having a professional keyboard on-the-go, but I don't want to switch to a T420s if I can help it.

[Jakoob]

I think, there will be more of us. Somebody name the price

[Cigarguy]

Wouldn't it be nice if Lenovo offer a classic or newer keyboard as an option? Wouldn't be that difficult for them to do. They can make a few bucks on the side and keep us old dinosaurs happy.

[ajkula66]

Somebody name the price

Better yet...

Somebody, bring Middleton back to working on ThinkPad BIOS mods...

[chx1975]

I pinged middleton then.

[mslasm]

I'm also willing to pay for fixing the 7-row keyboard bios issue on my thinkpad X230. Given how similar the machines are (they use exactly the same keyboard and many other components) I guess once X230 or T430 is fixed it would be easy to fix the other one.

I have thinkpoad X230 and X220 keyboard and willing to experiment (if chances to brick the machine are low

The only reason I bough x230 is to have possibly the last thinkpad X model which can still use the old keyboard. However for the past few month the system is idling on my desk as I found no solution to the keyboard / bios incompatibility problem yet.. so makes sense to pay something to fix this instead of selling used/buying used x220