This is not the first time they did something stupid and it won’t be the last on the Consumer side! The part that absolutely annoys me about it is they put this kind of bad design on consumer systems, yet they get it right on the Elite and Z series. Consider it a weekend project if you haven’t dealt with a design that’s DOA for repair design like this - you’ll need the time to get it right. In order to replace the keyboard, it requires a complete teardown but it is at least doable. However, yours seems to be the exception to the rule to the common design flaw HP has done on quite a few models over the years, but there’s a catch. On these machines, you need to replace the palmrest since there is no reliable way to re-secure the keyboard to the plastic once broken off. Most of the modern HP Consumer notebooks made since around 2014-2015 use a keyboard that is spot welded in with plastic posts and yours is no exception :-(. You didn’t explicitly say it’s an HP laptop, but the model number read as HP to me. It used to be motherboards when they got to 6-10 years old, but they seem to be more prone to keyboard failure these days - although you still see both. HP seems to have more keyboard issues then motherboard problems, especially within the last 5 years.
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