Looking for a cheap keyboard
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Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
Fair enough. If they prove to be anything interesting, caps and switches wise, I might be interested in one myself. But as shipping always costs more here, it'd need to be good!
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Hypersphere
- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: Silenced & Lubed HHKB (Black)
- Main mouse: Logitech G403
- Favorite switch: Topre 45/55g Silenced; Various Alps; IBM Model F
- DT Pro Member: 0038
FYI, I just received a BTC-5100 made in Taiwan compact keyboard that I purchased from eBay for a friend. It's a nice looking and solid board, and it is reasonably responsive for its switch type with sliders and buckling silicone rubber sleeves. The board seems brand new and it only cost $25 with free shipping. This one has an AT connector, but it should work with an AT to PS/2 adapter; for USB it would also need a PS/2 to USB converter.
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tape_artist
- Favorite switch: rubber dome
- DT Pro Member: -
I have started to eye ball cherry g80-3000. I could probably get it for a reasonable price. Do all of these keyboard come with mx blue switches, and are they reasonably durable?
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Daniel Beardsmore
- Location: Hertfordshire, England
- Main keyboard: Filco Majestouch 1 (home)/Poker II backlit (work)
- Main mouse: MS IMO 1.1
- Favorite switch: Probably not whatever I wrote here
- DT Pro Member: -
- Contact:
For current production, the only switches universally available are black and blue. Clear is/was available in limited layouts (ANSI and German ISO — I got the latter). I've never seen one with brown switches, while limited runs were made with reds in US ANSI.
They're light and flimsy, but if you don't rest your hand on the case, you'll be OK. You could do worse. The bendy PC is in some ways a blessing as it counteracts the hard landing of Cherry switches, though in my case that was hard to evaluate as I was using clears.
They use Cherry stabilisers, which means that swapping the horrible lasered keycaps for a cheap Tai-Hao doubleshot set is far easier than with other keyboards — no need to worry about stabiliser inserts.
They're light and flimsy, but if you don't rest your hand on the case, you'll be OK. You could do worse. The bendy PC is in some ways a blessing as it counteracts the hard landing of Cherry switches, though in my case that was hard to evaluate as I was using clears.
They use Cherry stabilisers, which means that swapping the horrible lasered keycaps for a cheap Tai-Hao doubleshot set is far easier than with other keyboards — no need to worry about stabiliser inserts.