I expect to hear more on why this is the case and, if I do, you’ll see an update to this review. HP has confirmed to me that users will only be able to authenticate with a fingerprint read when they unlock the device and not during an initial login from a cold boot, restart, or logout. Next to the power button in the top-right corner is the fingerprint sensor and it doles out pretty snappy reads. The key pitch is a standard 19mm and the chiclets give my fingers a nice bounce to keep the momentum up. ![]() As to whether it’s comfortable to type with, it is. I put up a pink wallpaper and the keyboard came up with white. You can also set the backlight’s color to match the prevailing color of your wallpaper in ChromeOS’s Personalization Hub, but don’t expect to gain any nuance in your QWERTY-dom with this trick. In reality, the keyboard is just a bit under-equipped to be full-blown customizable: you’ve got options for white, red, a yellow-ish orange, green, turquoise, blue, purple, and a rainbow gradient featuring every color but white and turquoise. ![]() ![]() It feels like a lot of press took the juxtaposition of an RGB backlit keyboard on a Chromebook (another Google-HP collaboration) that’s supposedly not explicitly meant for gamers as headline bait during the initial publicity run at CES.
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