Rubber dome model M feel great

ag36 · 02 Aug 2018, 14:06

I just received the NIB quiettouch M from orihalcon, very tactile and not very mushy at all. I think they're probably fairly underrated.

vometia · 02 Aug 2018, 14:49

Is that the same as the recent(-ish? or possibly still current) Unicomp rubber-dome M? We have one somewhere; well, in fact my other half uses it and seems to like it. When I tried it out I sometimes got some double keystrokes but it's certainly a lot better overall than the £5 jobbies that are normally associated with domes.

ag36 · 02 Aug 2018, 15:27

I've never tried the unicomp one but it should be the same thing but definitely not bad enough to be "Sigh, rubber dome" and tossed.

vometia · 02 Aug 2018, 16:47

Yeah, I would agree with that, and I quite like it, inasmuch as it's not a BS. It's consistent enough to almost be mistaken for a mechanical keyboard. I'd say it's probably quite similar to the DEC LK201 or whatever it is I have lying around that variously belongs to my VT320 and VaxStation, also rubber dome, but having actually tried it out after slandering it I realised it was actually a lot nicer than it "should" be. Not totally to my taste, but certainly in a different league to today's essentially disposable keyboards.

I've never tried them side-by-side (and can't at present as she's using it) but from memory, which is admittedly not the most reliable, they're not dissimilar.