DSI smk-85 info

So i've been searching for small boards with alps/alps type switches, and i found the SMK-85 with white alps. What do you guys thing of this board?

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Never tried the SMK-85, I think they had strongman switches which were ALPS copies.

My favorite compact ALPS boards that I've tried were Siig minitouch with a switch swap and Ortek MCK-84 with Fukkas.

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Siig Minitouch, White Dampened Swap, Blue Clicky Swap, Blue Monterey original.
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didja wrote:Never tried the SMK-85, I think they had strongman switches which were ALPS copies.

My favorite compact ALPS boards that I've tried were Siig minitouch with a switch swap and Ortek MCK-84 with Fukkas.

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Hi didja, what does the Ortek MCK-84 use, Fukkas, how are those?

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Ooops.
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maxrunner wrote:http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:13826
Seems they released an ISO version....
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Is this one the same?

http://epiguru.com/2012/06/for-sale-ort ... s-keycaps/

The user says it uses simplified alps, are those the same as yhe fukkas?
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So they released tge same board with different types like the SiiG minitouch. I would be interested in iso version with these the fukkas then.
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maxrunner wrote:Is this one the same?

http://epiguru.com/2012/06/for-sale-ort ... s-keycaps/

The user says it uses simplified alps, are those the same as yhe fukkas?

It's an ISO (real iso with the key next to left shift) winkeyless version.
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So i just bought this keyboard, and one thing that bothers me is that the numlock key is used to change the keys(u,i,o into 4,5,6...) into the keypad, so every time i turn on the pc i have to turn off the num lock since for default the numlock is always on.
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Seems my board bios gives you the option to turn it on or off at boot.
Also, if anyone has this board can they try to activate the scrolLock?
Looking at the color of the text(it shares the same key with delete), it would seem that to activate the scrolL, one would need to turn on the num lock first, but this doesn't seem to be working like that. only by pressing FN and the delete/scrolLock key that the led will turn on.Strange.

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No one with a SMK85?'
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