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Small painted plastic buttons with the painted letters vanishing after 12-18 months of moderate use. Is this a discount bamboo desktop?
Oh no, it happens to be the famous, the admired, the highly branded Apple Powerbook and the iBook G4.

A group of fifty danish macusers have requested a trial against Apple at the danish Customer Rights Board after the company denied exchange of faulty iBook and Powerbook keyboards.
Most of the notebooks are purchased 2004 and 2005.
The trouble is that letters are only painted on the keys, not engraved as in other keyboards. The letters simply vanishes after a period.

“I have been a macuser for almost twenty years and have had several Apple computers, but I have never seen something as lousy as this keyboard,” Carsten Legaard, one of the group keepers say.
Even though the keyboard matter is subject to a lot of discussions at the companys own website, Apple Europe claims they have never heard of the problem.
In Denmark less than ten customers have had luck convincing Apple they must exchange the faulty keyboards. About 50 customers were turned down by Apple Europe and left with the “possibility” to spend another $150 purchasing a new keyboard.
At powerbookmedic.com they love the Powerbooks and iBooks while they sell a lot of replacement keys at $8 per letter!!
Now the fifty danes have chosen to discuss the arrogant Apple behavior in public, and we welcome macusers all over the world to join our debate.