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How are the ML switches? Also since it's low profile it doesn't really match my existing keyboards... but that is a minor concern I can't speak from personal experience, but as I understand it they are sort of like a short travel MX brown, but don't feel close enough to truly satisfy MX users. You ...

the worse shocker is that the G84-4100 typically sells for £50 in the UK (not too bad I think compared with £120+ for the typical MX switch keyboards) but a couple stores have the G84-4700 on sale for £70+. Stupid, and eBay UK is really hit & miss for Cherry products unfortunately. I'm so glad the I...

I was going to suggest the Cherry G84-4700, but it's ML keys and almost the same price as the G84-4100 compact keyboard :shock: http://www.cherry.de/english/products/keypads_Keypad_G84-4700.htm Logitech and Microsoft both do wireless keypads, but of course they won't be mechanical switches: http://w...

So, what do you guys know about ergonomic mice and solutions for RSI? My medical qualification to comment: zero . So please take my comments as such, and if this is a serious, worsening problem for your wife, the best course would be to see a doctor and find out if there is an underlying issue that...

Just trying to say that you can't expect much changes to be made to it if you just discuss them in here. Fair enough :) I see that the KBC forum has already got links here (and to geekhack + others) so at least someone is watching, and if Sixty or others can highlight this desire for other layouts ...

I think at this point it is realistic to expect that they are only shipping the US layout version and for other stuff you need big numbers and patience in terms of many months. undoubtedly, I'd expect a long wait of months if a decision were made today, but I would think it will take a while to gau...

The best place would be KBC's own forum. Well I don't agree, sorry. I think any forum discussing any given product should be able to freely highlight any shortcomings for any particular customer. We're not picking on the merits of ISO v. ANSI, it's a question of whether we can make do with the 'wro...

I believe this isn't the right place to complain about the layout... Why do you think that? if not this thread/forum, where? Surely this is the best place to dissect the relative flaws and merits of this specific product? I agree it's unlikely that the layout would change now, but the suggestion to...

Remapping the Windows key to Alt Gr is a much more promising solution... However, I still want that ISO key next to left shift, and while I'm making wishlists: why can't the right shift be the space saver style to make room for an extra button between Ctrl and Enter? Fn key could go there instead an...

I'm not sure subbing left Alt for Alt Gr would be any better - different modifiers do different things. Neither is used very frequently, but probably just enough to be inconvenient if they weren't available.

Mmmm, shiny, precious, :drool:

I would like to be included in the draw for this. Thanks.

Given that this is for Europe, why ANSI? is the minimum order quantity more for ISO?

From day one there were problems with various buttons sticking and failing, wheels failing, inadequately cable housings that led to loose connections & erratic pointer movement etc. I already said I think they've improved: the Imperator feels more solid, and I guess the other new mice and newer revi...

Thanks sixty. How do you type £ and € on these then? I tend to use the \ key a lot while playing games, so I'm not sure I can live without that extra key anyway, but the prospect of direct EU sales at the moderate price suggested in the interest check thread means that I'm reluctant to rule this out...

Was there a particular mouse pad model that caught your attention? I'm just going to be lazy and point you toward my ramblings elsewhere: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1531075 Outside of the ones there, I think QCK+ and Goliathus Speed are good choices, I keep promising myself to get the QC...

Is there an Alt Gr key on this layout? maybe next to Fn on the right hand side?

Also, is there an ISO layout for the UK & EU?

Most laser mice prefer a hard mouse pad and do not track so well on soft pads. I don't really agree with this, I've tested a few laser mice on a variety of cloth pads, comparing Philips v. Avago sensors and different surface textures. The tracking is good in most cases, and I've long ago come to th...

hoggy wrote:Yes. IanM wins!!!

Hoorah for me! I'd like to thank my agent, my family, and all the fans who made this possible.

Did you make this one yourself hoggy?

Thanks very much

I tried to do it with earlier with " " around the URL, which of course doesn't work here. Will fix my other posts now.

The URL button just wraps the tags around whatever is highlighted What is the BBcode required to create a nicely formatted link with a text title?

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I looked at split keyboards and some of the industrial keypads in the past. There are some interesting ideas, but in the end I concluded that the form factors still aren't close enough to ideal, particularly given the prices. X-Keys programmable pads, the mid size one actually has a ready made WoW p...

Well I would imagine straight keys would be really shitty to type on, the staggered rows work perfectly. I can see your point about a purpose built game controller but if that game controller is a keyboard would you really want to have to swap em around just to play games? That seems counter-intuit...

WASD works, we get by OK but: clean design from scratch, you're making a tool to play games - would you offset the equivalent of the W key? It makes no sense to do it, as all it does for gamers is force the middle finger into a less comfortable position. If electronic keyboards were invented today, ...

I like the idea of a keyboard with less noise. Is any of this ever likely to be available in tenkeyless or compact/space saver, ISO layouts? As far as I can see, only the 'ordinary' full size Topre is available in a UK layout (via Keyboardco) and I'm guessing that blood pouring from stone is more li...

Compukit UK101

in a home made case?

old Lachesis or the revamped edition with 5600dpi sensor? Razer used to get a lot of hype as the only alternative to Microsoft & Logitech, but now that there are numerous gaming peripheral brands to choose from I think there is as much strong criticism of Razer as there is hype. A lot of that critic...

The n52 mod looks interesting :) although the pad isn't my ideal layout. Will definitely read the blog and see if it gives me any ideas. I wondered about building something from scratch, but it's unlikely I would see it through. As for games using lots of keys, I agree that there are plenty of excep...

After using a decent mechanical keyboard, it's quite frustrating to use cheap keyboards and controllers, so none of the gaming oriented keyboards and keypads (Logitech G13, Belkin n52te, Wolfking Warrior et al) are satisfactory. Sure there are a handful of mechanical gaming keyboards, and compact me...

Strictly hypothetical as I don't think there are any HID peripherals yet that use USB 3.0, and there may never be as the controllers are expensive, and bandwidth is not needed. However: Increasing the USB polling rate for lower latency can lead to erratic performance, so would it be better if future...