John S., my Raleigh buddy and fellow, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, non-traditional PhD student partner bought an amazing computer to do some of the heavy lifting required for his research that involves lots of image segmentation and classification with AI. He has only had the thing for a little over a year and his backslash key broke. I had that problem with my, two-computers-ago work laptop and it was a wildly big hassle to get it fixed. Shortly after getting my one-computer-ago work laptop, Christian gifted me a mechanical laptop that I can hardly live without anymore. It works so well that I now travel with a similar, but shorter mechanical keyboard to avoid using the laptop keyboard. I highly recommend that approach, but it quickly wrecks you for lesser keyboards.