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This YouTube video suggests that it's reasonable for a mechanical, being quieter than plate-mount Cherry switches. What I find curious about that video is how much quieter the QuickFire Rapid is compared to the other Cherry boards*– sounds like a PCB mount from that video, although the sound qualit...

Sorry, no. General opinion on Acer hammer-over-membrane switches is negative. At least one person reported being able to feel the membrane, and disliked it for that reason. I can't remember the exact problems reported, although I recall that they didn't remotely match my experience with them (I stil...

Oh mighty ORAKEL! Give me your advise, which keyboards can i buy with a straight, flat non-sculpted profile... i've even made a high quality picture of my demand: http://www.abload.de/thumb/keyboard-profileyss2w.gif :mrgreen: Ha. Few keyboards have a curved backplane – most use sculpted keycaps. Yo...

Findecanor wrote:Seriously, no matter how much I like the Topre, it does feel like a rubber dome because it uses a rubber dome.

Don't forget that it has a property otherwise reserved for so-called mechanical keyboards: mid-travel actuation. No other dome board is capable of that.

So you'd exclude Topre? Rubberdome isn't a bad term (includes Topre); membrane isn't a bad term (includes membrane buckling springs).

Where did you find that picture? Surely there must be a large version and a picture of the rest of the keyboard in which is found? Unless of course this is a contest in disguise and you already know!

I hate marketing lies as much as the next guy, but when you're comparing a production product range to decrepit hardware from the 80s, that's just dumb. Good luck connecting a keyboard harvested from a Commodore 64 to a Windows or Macintosh computer and selling that to people! You'll need a lot more...

It's funny how completely over-engineered it looks nowadays

Oh mysterious Oracle, the Focus FK 2001 has complicated or simplified white alps? Varies – here's one with blues , probably complicated blue given the duller shade of blue. IIRC the ones with Windows keys had the simplified switches. I think you'll see simplified and complicated blues and whites … ...

I've just checked my AT102W – white switch plate, and very visibly doesn't reach the bottom of the switch. Something gives the keys an odd force curve – there's a second tactile point after the first, at the end of the travel, but not on all of the keys. Maybe this is why I was finding the keys to h...

Perhaps they should bundle those revisions in with some universal matrix wiring and switch holes that would allow ANSI and ISO to share the same circuit

how to drown in a glass of water... these are not flaws, just personal preferences. Normarily, of course, if you don't like a product, you buy a rival product that you do like. Leopold vs Cherry vs FILCO vs Noppoo for example. Now, there aren't exactly a lot of keyboards in this form factor to choo...

Aw, I was really looking forward to my ISO Poker :P

D’oh.

Just curious, do you all want blank, fully lettered, or front (Fn layer) legends only? The ISO demand is deeply reassuring, but I don't know about the MOQ for lettering for individual nationalities and I doubt we'd make it. I'm happy with blank, although it would be very helpful if the key fronts we...

Well, if it makes you any happier, I've just ordered a 105-key Realforce (variable weight). I've been needing to try one for a long time, so here goes. Fukka white, Cherry MX brown and complicated black ALPS are all giving me no joy right now, so it's time for a change.

maybe you should stop your trolls about HHKB2 and Topre. The fact that you can't afford them should not push you to keep on calling them rubber domes, implying they are inferior to MX cherry ones, which is actually by far the opposite. Opinion varies, some people prefer them to Cherry MX, others do...

yes, and Topre switches are very expensive. Is there a good reason for this? I mean the whole point of rubberdome keyboards was to make them cheap, so I don't quite get how Topre can make a dome and a spring cost more than an ALPS switch! They must be using some really premium rubber and spring ste...

Also, how about offering the boards as a kit with some or all of the switches not yet soldered into place. This would enable the user to choose between ISO and ANSI layouts. I wonder how well that would work with left shift in terms of it being either one or two keys, in such a small space, and whe...

It could be like a Majestouch Ninja, with front lettering just for the Fn layer … That would be awesome.

My technology teacher at school had an interesting name for bad solder jobs: Dolly Partons … (which applied to most of my attempted soldering) My only fear is that I won't be able to whack Esc single-handedly without losing the ` character. I've never used a PCB-mounted Cherry or ALPS so this would ...

Edit: sorry, getting Esc lock and arrow lock mixed up. Esc lock is the right idea but it should be a DIP switch or programmable option.

Can they be plate mounted this time? :3 What would you consider to be a fair price for the keyboards if the redesign and retooling is taken into account? I'd be happy if the top-left key was Esc normally and ` with Fn (matches normal Windows usage with the ease of cancelling things but with the nee...

rouston wrote:but hhkb ARE mechanical capacitative switch keyboards and you cannot classify them into ruber domes as well in that case. that's just a stupid troll

I disagree, but let's keep this topic on topic

3x blue. Shocking that I would not get even *1* rubber dome HHKB for that money... you mean hhkb2 so a mechanical keyboard. The rubber dome is the lite... The HHKB2 still uses domes, and it doesn't have any electrical contacts. I wouldn't class it as mechanical myself. Dome keyboards aren't all bad...

(Edit: I'm mixing up Esc lock with arrow lock. The problem with Esc lock is that it's not a DIP switch setting yet the default setting is the wrong one IMO as Esc is used far more than ~ or ` in Windows and Mac OS) And would there be the option of nice PBT engraved keycaps? The stock keycaps shown f...