Is this keyboard widely considered bad?

[PythoN]

http://www.cmstorm.com/en/products/keyb ... ckfirepro/

I don't see it getting much love on forums/online in general, and it isn't very popular. It's only a bit more expensive than the Quickfire Rapid and has backlighting, however I hear rumors that it's manufactured by a company called iOne and has a worse build quality. Is this true for this keyboard? Did I make the wrong choice buying it?

[002]

I've never used this keyboard before but certain things about it sound alarm bells for me...
- You can (or at least could) get it for as low as 50 bucks. It's usually $90-odd?
- A $90 dollar keyboard that tries to cram in as many features as it lists on that site is surely skimping in other areas on quality.
- It *looks like* it might be made by iOne. If that's the case, it very well could be shit quality. I have used an xArmor U9BL before (friends purchase) and it was really flimsy and cheap feeling.

It's probably not really "widely considered bad", but more-so widely avoided because it looks like it probably would be bad (is that the same thing? I dunno)
Maybe when it arrives you can post your opinions of it here?

[PythoN]

I've had the board for quite a while actually (about a month), but I just started doing more research now and I was actually considering selling this one and buying a das ultimate that I found for 100 bucks (the vendor said he'll keep it for me if noone else is interested).
The board itself feels perfectly fine, it's really solid and feels heavy, the sound and feel when typing is nice, the only problem so far with it is the keycaps feel a bit cheap, but that's no problem since I plan to buy keycaps for future boards I get.
However, I don't know if it's actually good or bad considering I've never tried any other keyboard besides this one in my entire life, so I have the disadvantage of lack of experience.
Do you think I should look into selling this board for a das ultimate at that price?

[Muirium]

The Das doesn't have the best of reputations either. Very very shiny case which manages to look dirty from the moment it's out the box, no matter what you do, and the caps have a pretty horrible font if you're considering the one with legends. (I forget their naming convention. No one else uses it.)

But otherwise, I've heard it's pretty decent. Especially if you like the price.

[PythoN]

The one I'm going for has blank keycaps, since I want to get better at touch typing, and the price is very attractive so I may just let my quickfire go for about 80-90 dollars and I'll still be cost effective.
The gloss is no problem for me because I'm good at taking care of my stuff, and from unboxings I've seen it comes with a cleaning cloth especially for that purpose.

[Muirium]

Fair enough. Can't argue with the training effectiveness of blanks. The Das was the first I ever heard about them in fact, many years ago.

[IvanIvanovich]

Yes the PRO was made by iOne, and I believe it will be EOL as CM announced new fullsize XT (I think they should have picked something else, since XT still means something different entirely to many keyboarders) model made with costar

[PythoN]

What does EOL mean?

[002]

End of life

[PythoN]

Hmm, so I guess it would be a good idea to get rid of it as efficiently as possible. I'll see if I can let it go for 80-90 USD. Thanks for the help guys!

[Slurhn]

How about other keyboards from CM? Like this one:
http://www.cmstorm.com/en/products/keyb ... ickfiretk/

[PythoN]

I've actually been looking into the CM Storm Quickfire Stealth with blue switches, since it's at a store in downtown Toronto.

[Muirium]

Coolermaster does us Europeans a favour by not being especially easy to find in physical stores. That and the crap switch selection here. By the time you're looking at their stuff online, Filco's right there.