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- 23 Sep 2012, 23:46
- Forum: News
- Topic: Matias Quiet Pro Keyboard with sound-dampened ALPS switches
- Replies: 62
- Views: 17708
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...
- 23 Sep 2012, 13:13
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: acer mechanical keyboard
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3326
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...
- 23 Sep 2012, 04:10
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: The Oracle Answers
- Replies: 1533
- Views: 368145
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...
- 22 Sep 2012, 14:31
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: We need a better adjective than "mechanical".
- Replies: 55
- Views: 20720
- 22 Sep 2012, 01:56
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: We need a better adjective than "mechanical".
- Replies: 55
- Views: 20720
- 22 Sep 2012, 00:37
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Switch identification
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1648
- 21 Sep 2012, 22:29
- Forum: News
- Topic: Matias Quiet Pro Keyboard with sound-dampened ALPS switches
- Replies: 62
- Views: 17708
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...
- 19 Sep 2012, 22:40
- Forum: Gallery
- Topic: Sony SMI-7060
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2868
- 19 Sep 2012, 00:50
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: The Oracle Answers
- Replies: 1533
- Views: 368145
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 … ...
- 27 Oct 2011, 19:40
- Forum: Keyboards
- Topic: Pink Vs. Orange ALPS
- Replies: 47
- Views: 27898
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...
- 11 Oct 2011, 21:46
- Forum: Group buys
- Topic: Interest Check - European Poker Group buy Round 2
- Replies: 127
- Views: 47103
- 09 Sep 2011, 10:30
- Forum: Group buys
- Topic: Interest Check - European Poker Group buy Round 2
- Replies: 127
- Views: 47103
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...
- 07 Sep 2011, 17:22
- Forum: Group buys
- Topic: Interest Check - European Poker Group buy Round 2
- Replies: 127
- Views: 47103
- 28 Aug 2011, 22:33
- Forum: Group buys
- Topic: Interest Check - European Poker Group buy Round 2
- Replies: 127
- Views: 47103
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...
- 26 Aug 2011, 22:48
- Forum: Group buys
- Topic: Interest Check - European Poker Group buy Round 2
- Replies: 127
- Views: 47103
- 25 Aug 2011, 00:23
- Forum: Group buys
- Topic: Interest Check - European Poker Group buy Round 2
- Replies: 127
- Views: 47103
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...
- 24 Aug 2011, 22:03
- Forum: Group buys
- Topic: Interest Check - European Poker Group buy Round 2
- Replies: 127
- Views: 47103
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...
- 22 Aug 2011, 19:49
- Forum: Group buys
- Topic: Interest Check - European Poker Group buy Round 2
- Replies: 127
- Views: 47103
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...
- 21 Aug 2011, 15:41
- Forum: Group buys
- Topic: Interest Check - European Poker Group buy Round 2
- Replies: 127
- Views: 47103
- 21 Aug 2011, 15:09
- Forum: Group buys
- Topic: Interest Check - European Poker Group buy Round 2
- Replies: 127
- Views: 47103
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 ...
- 19 Aug 2011, 20:46
- Forum: Group buys
- Topic: Interest Check - European Poker Group buy Round 2
- Replies: 127
- Views: 47103
- 19 Aug 2011, 14:56
- Forum: Group buys
- Topic: Interest Check - European Poker Group buy Round 2
- Replies: 127
- Views: 47103
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...
- 17 Aug 2011, 23:18
- Forum: Group buys
- Topic: Interest Check - European Poker Group buy Round 2
- Replies: 127
- Views: 47103
- 17 Aug 2011, 23:10
- Forum: Group buys
- Topic: Interest Check - European Poker Group buy Round 2
- Replies: 127
- Views: 47103
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...
- 17 Aug 2011, 19:32
- Forum: Group buys
- Topic: Interest Check - European Poker Group buy Round 2
- Replies: 127
- Views: 47103
(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...