Can you use the keyboard of a laptop as a keyboard for the PC?

Can you use the keyboard of a laptop as a keyboard for the PC?

Yes of course

Technically, yes, but the conversion would be more expensive than simply buying a new keyboard.

Conditionally. In laptops, the keyboard usually only consists of the key matrix, while the controller, which evaluates the input signal and passes it on digitally, is somewhere on the mainboard.

What you could do: Take an Arduino (or similar) that has at least 24 input pins and supports the function of "logging on" to the PC as a USB keyboard, hang the keyboard on it and program a corresponding key recognition and transmission functionality.

Without certain modifications and expensive additional hardware, this will hardly be anything…

However, there are also (sometimes cheap) USB keyboards without a numeric keypad that are correspondingly narrow:

https://www.amazon.de/..._ss_i_1_18

If you choose a model there, please make sure that the cursor keys have the normal distribution, ie three keys next to each other and the "up key" in the middle. This other variant, in which the L&R is centrally located next to the "up / down" buttons, is extremely uncomfortable to use. I speak from painful experience…

And you can buy such a number pad individually if it is still needed (via USB or Bluetooth). And left-handers can then position it to the left of the actual keyboard:

https://www.amazon.de/..._sb_noss_1

And if you are looking for something very special or exotic, Logitech (quite new) has a bent Ergo keyboard for prolific writers who master the 10-finger system:

https://www.amazon.de/...07W6JPVP3/

Just "narrow" is absolutely not…

I myself have a much older predecessor of such a Logitech keyboard. I'm very satisfied with that. And after about 1 week my permanent wrist pain was completely gone.

But such a keyboard is absolutely not suitable for everyone and in games there are "certain" problems with the accessibility of key combinations.

A real gaming keyboard is completely different. Especially these mechanical models.