Toshiba lightweigh​t laptop with good key-travel keyboard?

Hello. I'm thinking of buying a new laptop. I'got now a ThinkPad. Reliable and soft, long-key-travel keyboard to write on it for hours and hours, and I never end feeling my  fingers crushed, as in other laptops (Macs included).
Previously I used two Toshiba laptops of the wonderfull series Portégé R. I would really like to go back to Toshiba, but the Portégé models I see now (the R as well as the Z subseries) seem all to share exactly the same short-travel keyboard.
Can you confirm that there is no travel-key difference between the Z and R keyboards? 
Could you tell me which one of your lightweight models (less than 3 lbs if possible) has the softest keyboard, the longest key travel?
Many thanks in advance.

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