A Keyboard Love Story II - Filco Camouflage Majestouch-2
Posted: 24 Jun 2012, 20:00
As the cliffhanger in part I stated, I was looking for a Cherry MX brown keyboard for work. This time I was a bit more careful, or at least so I believed, because I didn’t know how I would feel about the brown switches now that I’d started to fall in love with the Cherry MX blues. So I wanted to buy it from Finland due to our excellent return policies (min. 14-day 0-cost full return policy for basically anything bought via telephone/internet/mail/...) I ordered the only US layout, Cherry MX brown type keyboard I could find around here: the Filco Camouflage Majestouch-2. (I really wanted the limited yellow keycap version but didn't risk to order it from the UK)
Filco Camouflage Majestouch-2 arrived in early February. I actually quite recently sold the keyboard, so I don’t unfortunately have detailed pictures of it. Take a look at this review for great pictures. I’ll try to remember and tell you how I felt about it.
The packaging wasn’t quite as convincing as the one my Ducky has. It was clearly too much gaming oriented for my taste
Oh, and there was no “velvet” bag! 
Other than that, mint packaging.
I had read about the best quality being equal to Filco and all that rah rah but in hindsight, I must say that I wasn’t all that convinced. First and foremost, the case was not perfectly balanced. It was maybe less than a millimeter off, but it still was. I had to fold a post-it note under the right back rubber foot to keep it in perfect balance. Second, it had regular, rather thin ABS keycaps with pad printing - at this price?! Come on! Third, instead of DIP switches or controller tweaks, Filco decided to replace the left Win key with a Fn key. That was quite a turn off.
However, I didn’t bother to return it since all the rest was just greatness. Loved the Filco keycap puller! Very stylish Filco logo on the front. Camo(whatever) water painted case did cause a bit of a laughs at the office but it was far from being distractive. Loved the tenkeyless layout. But most of all, I loved typing on it.
The tactile, non-clicky Cherry MX brown switches turned out to be brilliant. I was surprised that it required even less force than the blues on my Ducky. But I also have to say that the tactile bump was initially a bit of a disappointment to me. I guess I was expecting a bit more stronger feedback since there was no click...? But still, I kept learning to type on it without bottoming down the keys and my fingers just started hovering over the keys. I really enjoyed typing on the Filco.
My head started to fill with all sorts of crazy ideas... What if the Cherry MX blue wasn’t THE switch for me?! What if the Cherry MX brown is the one??
On the other hand, I was certain that I’d miss the clicking sound. I decided to look for a completely different species... The Buckling Spring... Now that’s a story for the next week.
Filco Camouflage Majestouch-2 arrived in early February. I actually quite recently sold the keyboard, so I don’t unfortunately have detailed pictures of it. Take a look at this review for great pictures. I’ll try to remember and tell you how I felt about it.
The packaging wasn’t quite as convincing as the one my Ducky has. It was clearly too much gaming oriented for my taste
Oh, and there was no “velvet” bag! Other than that, mint packaging.I had read about the best quality being equal to Filco and all that rah rah but in hindsight, I must say that I wasn’t all that convinced. First and foremost, the case was not perfectly balanced. It was maybe less than a millimeter off, but it still was. I had to fold a post-it note under the right back rubber foot to keep it in perfect balance. Second, it had regular, rather thin ABS keycaps with pad printing - at this price?! Come on! Third, instead of DIP switches or controller tweaks, Filco decided to replace the left Win key with a Fn key. That was quite a turn off.
However, I didn’t bother to return it since all the rest was just greatness. Loved the Filco keycap puller! Very stylish Filco logo on the front. Camo(whatever) water painted case did cause a bit of a laughs at the office but it was far from being distractive. Loved the tenkeyless layout. But most of all, I loved typing on it.
The tactile, non-clicky Cherry MX brown switches turned out to be brilliant. I was surprised that it required even less force than the blues on my Ducky. But I also have to say that the tactile bump was initially a bit of a disappointment to me. I guess I was expecting a bit more stronger feedback since there was no click...? But still, I kept learning to type on it without bottoming down the keys and my fingers just started hovering over the keys. I really enjoyed typing on the Filco.
My head started to fill with all sorts of crazy ideas... What if the Cherry MX blue wasn’t THE switch for me?! What if the Cherry MX brown is the one??
On the other hand, I was certain that I’d miss the clicking sound. I decided to look for a completely different species... The Buckling Spring... Now that’s a story for the next week.