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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.

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.

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

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.

Jakoob wrote:Somebody name the price

Better yet...

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

I pinged middleton then.

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