If it was me I'd break it. Seems more of a shame to leave the keyboard connector a virgin then a bit of plastic (I was going to go further with that analogy but I'll keep it clean)
If you really don't like the idea the PS2 idea looks like a clean solution, even tidies up the empty hole.

It's not meant to look like it was never taken out of the original packaging, is it? Covers have to go.

That's the stupidest thing ever. I would assume there is nothing behind that plastic and wouldn't remove it ever. I'd be mighty mad if I found out later there was a working port behind that cover. Who does that? It's like covering the floppy drive with a plastic in case some poeple don't intend to use it.

Id definitely try to confirm there is an actual keyboard port there.

He did confirm there is a port behind it. On the first page he shows a picture of the port inside the case.

Just one question, and I'm not the only one:
Why on earth would you cover up an actual usable port and state in the manual: break me if you want to use an external keyboard???

Just open it up in the first place. Saves a little material (and money over thousands of laptops) and don't let the customer get confused.

On the other hand: you know for sure you'd be the first one to actually use it 😉

waterbeesje wrote on 2020-07-14, 15:47:

Just one question, and I'm not the only one: Why on earth would you cover up an actual usable port and state in the manual: brea […]
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Just one question, and I'm not the only one:
Why on earth would you cover up an actual usable port and state in the manual: break me if you want to use an external keyboard???

Just open it up in the first place. Saves a little material (and money over thousands of laptops) and don't let the customer get confused.

On the other hand: you know for sure you'd be the first one to actually use it 😉

They likely used this lower case on many laptops and not all had the port, so it's instead not changing the tooling for different models.

the external keyboard connector is even mentioned in the manual, but nothing about a piece of plastic covering it ^^

johnnycontrario wrote on 2020-07-13, 22:25:

or this abomination.

Ugh, I actually have mutual friends with that guy. Will definitely give him a piece of my mind if I ever make it out to his comic con.