Hmm I have no idea what I will get with that Alps keyboard. Very new to Alps overall. Alps Bigfoot you say I have never heard of it even! The seller just said it's not a mechanical keyboard but that it has Alps switches. So it's a good keyboard you say? Got it for $7.Daniel Beardsmore wrote: ↑I tried a keycap swap with a keycap from my AT102W — it made very little difference. I don't think the keycaps are the problem. That first keyboard selected for donor caps is going to be a much higher quality product — most likely to be a genuine Alps Bigfoot!
For all I know, it's because Matias use polycarbonate for the shell instead of ABS.
As for dark-on-white (it's not: Apple use laser charring to give grey-on-white, which they pull off fairly well) it shows up stains far more readily, but it's better for dust
Strangely, I like the Matias gloss black, but mine came scratched from new (as did the Quiet Pro as I recall) and polycarbonate seems to scratch very readily. Even brushing off dust for a photo left scratches in the plastic! It's not like whatever my camera screen is shielded with, as that's glossy yet not terribly scratched after nine years. (It's scratched, but not like my brand new Matias!)
And yeah one of the resons I also painted my Matias is that I noticed it scratches very easily. Mine was also scratched out of the box in some minor places. Me trying to rub it away created new scratches. I was like wth and decided to paint it right then! So I did.
