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I think it will likely take significant modification to fit a mech keeb in the laptop as is. [I asked about the stock keyboard dimensions and was told the module is 3.8mm thick](https://community.frame.work/t/the-keyboard/155/5) which doesn't leave enough room for low profile mechanical keyboard switches that are all ~8mm thick without accounting for caps.

That said, I'm right there with you hoping to see some cool mech keeb work around these laptops!

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they want the ability to use it as an external keyboard, by just setting it on top of the existing keyboard, then removing it when they need to close the laptop. they don't want to do this now, because they worry about damaging something by doing so.

So they want the laptop to have a blank cover where the keyboard normally is, so they have somewhere to put their mech keyboard while they use the laptop.

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