Cherry Dyesub PBT keys (yeah, the super rare/expensive ones)
- harrison
- Location: Surrey, BC, CANADA
- Main keyboard: Ducky 9008G2
- Main mouse: Logitech Performance MX
- Favorite switch: Cherry MX Brown
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So, I've become obsessed. I need to find some now, even if I can't afford them. Maybe they'll be my Christmas present to myself this year.
How impossible is it going to be for me to find these? What's reasonable versus typical to pay for them when they are found.
How impossible is it going to be for me to find these? What's reasonable versus typical to pay for them when they are found.
- sixty
- Gasbag Guru
- Main keyboard: DKSaver
- Favorite switch: Cherry MX Black
- DT Pro Member: 0060
It depends on how much you are willing to pay. It seems that 90% of eBay sellers have somehow gotten a hint of whats going on with these. I have not seen a set end under $200 in a long time. I could summon a set or two ANSI US out of thin air if you are willing to pay the usual silly prices.
- harrison
- Location: Surrey, BC, CANADA
- Main keyboard: Ducky 9008G2
- Main mouse: Logitech Performance MX
- Favorite switch: Cherry MX Brown
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I would be looking for ANSI.
Can either of you tell me how the Cherry PBT key feel compares to the KBC/Ducky PBT keys? I've dropped money in the $200 realm on keyboards more than once now, but dropping that kind of change on a set of keys alone without having touched them is currently based on desire and expectation alone right now. I could use some comparative testimony
Can either of you tell me how the Cherry PBT key feel compares to the KBC/Ducky PBT keys? I've dropped money in the $200 realm on keyboards more than once now, but dropping that kind of change on a set of keys alone without having touched them is currently based on desire and expectation alone right now. I could use some comparative testimony
- sixty
- Gasbag Guru
- Main keyboard: DKSaver
- Favorite switch: Cherry MX Black
- DT Pro Member: 0060
It is pretty hard to explain. Since they are much thicker than the usual PBT keys, they feel different. The keys itself have less texture than the KBC ones and kinda have a silky smooth feel.harrison wrote:I would be looking for ANSI.
Can either of you tell me how the Cherry PBT key feel compares to the KBC/Ducky PBT keys? I've dropped money in the $200 realm on keyboards more than once now, but dropping that kind of change on a set of keys alone without having touched them is currently based on desire and expectation alone right now. I could use some comparative testimony
- Telstar
- Location: Italy
- Main keyboard: Model M
- Main mouse: Razer Basilisk
- Favorite switch: very tactile
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UK or some other region?Ascaii wrote:Also, are you looking for ANSI or ISO? I do have two iso sets for sale for a slightly less then ridiculous price.
Being sublimation i guess its white keys with black lettering?
- Ascaii
- The Beard
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Main keyboard: CM Novatouch, g80-1851
- Main mouse: Corsair M65
- Favorite switch: Ergo clears, Topre
- DT Pro Member: 0019
mine.cactux wrote:What is the boards that has the best Cherry MX keycaps?
look for SAU letter code
Also /KL is putting together a group buy at GH: http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?2237 ... ING-ORDERS***
- sixty
- Gasbag Guru
- Main keyboard: DKSaver
- Favorite switch: Cherry MX Black
- DT Pro Member: 0060
I think the SP ones are not nearly as good as the Cherry ones. Which is of course related to the thickness. I see little reason to get SP ones, when the KBC ones are about 6 times cheaper and of a similar thickness and quality.Ascaii wrote: Also /KL is putting together a group buy at GH: http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?2237 ... ING-ORDERS***
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- Location: Ugly American
- Main keyboard: As Long As It is Helvetica
- Main mouse: Mickey
- Favorite switch: Wanna Switch? Well, I Certainly Did!
- DT Pro Member: -
You could always try AEKII, SGI Granite, or IBM Model M keys just to see what PBT is like.
Or Topres. Just ignore the ABS spacebar part.
SGI Granites are some of my favs btw.
Or Topres. Just ignore the ABS spacebar part.
SGI Granites are some of my favs btw.
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- Count Troller
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Do KBC have dyesub ones? I remember only lasered.sixty wrote:I think the SP ones are not nearly as good as the Cherry ones. Which is of course related to the thickness. I see little reason to get SP ones, when the KBC ones are about 6 times cheaper and of a similar thickness and quality.
- webwit
- Wild Duck
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: Model F62
- Favorite switch: IBM beam spring
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I think all obsessing over plastic Cherry keycaps is a rather extreme form of faggotry.
- webwit
- Wild Duck
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: Model F62
- Favorite switch: IBM beam spring
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Plastic bits, man. Plastic bits.
- webwit
- Wild Duck
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: Model F62
- Favorite switch: IBM beam spring
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I was hoping it would have trolled more Cherry fanboys, but only ripster took the bait.
- kbdfr
- The Tiproman
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Main keyboard: Tipro MID-QM-128A + two Tipro matrix modules
- Main mouse: Contour Rollermouse Pro
- Favorite switch: Cherry black
- DT Pro Member: 0010
My advice - and not only mine:mintberryminuscrunch wrote:You're kinda ignorant
http://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f= ... ion#p23642
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- Location: Ugly American
- Main keyboard: As Long As It is Helvetica
- Main mouse: Mickey
- Favorite switch: Wanna Switch? Well, I Certainly Did!
- DT Pro Member: -
mintberryminuscrunch wrote:You're kinda ignorant
Nope. Between the All About Keys and the Key Reference Wiki I'd say I'm Number One.
Speaking of which if someone can take a Cherry Corp Dyesub pic like this ( Cherry Corp Brown Cherry RicerCar SPOS) I can add to the wiki.
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- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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Off-topic.
I learned that Germany has pretty much skipped that first part. Now, when it is sung, only the third part is used. It starts with "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit, für das deutsche Vaterland", which is more symphathetic and less prone to be misunderstood out of context. (Unity, justice and freedom in the German home land. For these values, let us all strive, brotherly, with heart and hand)
Originally, those words referred to a unified Germany being more important than each state of its own ... but of course that is kind of far-fetched if you don't know the lyrics' context.ripster wrote:Deutschland Uber Alles. Uber Alles in der Welt!
I learned that Germany has pretty much skipped that first part. Now, when it is sung, only the third part is used. It starts with "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit, für das deutsche Vaterland", which is more symphathetic and less prone to be misunderstood out of context. (Unity, justice and freedom in the German home land. For these values, let us all strive, brotherly, with heart and hand)
- kbdfr
- The Tiproman
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Main keyboard: Tipro MID-QM-128A + two Tipro matrix modules
- Main mouse: Contour Rollermouse Pro
- Favorite switch: Cherry black
- DT Pro Member: 0010
Right.Findecanor wrote:Off-topic.Originally, those words referred to a unified Germany being more important than each state of its own ... but of course that is kind of far-fetched if you don't know the lyrics' context.ripster wrote:Deutschland Uber Alles. Uber Alles in der Welt!
I learned that Germany has pretty much skipped that first part. Now, when it is sung, only the third part is used. It starts with "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit, für das deutsche Vaterland", which is more symphathetic and less prone to be misunderstood out of context. (Unity, justice and freedom in the German home land. For these values, let us all strive, brotherly, with heart and hand)
"Deutschland über alles" conveyed a meaning somewhat similar to "e pluribus unum", if ripster happens to know what that means. And the third strophe of the song is now the national anthem of Germany: "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit", all notions despised by the Nazis (those people who meant Germans were by nature superior to the rest of the world, like ripster does for Americans).