Old? G81
Posted: 06 Feb 2011, 01:44
http://geekhack.org/showpost.php?p=107419&postcount=1
Are these MY switches better? Are they hard too find?
Are these MY switches better? Are they hard too find?
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Posted: 06 Feb 2011, 01:48
My guess is if they are better, they are just a different degree of suck, but I'll leave it to sixty the Cherry master.
Posted: 06 Feb 2011, 01:51
The black ones are better, but still suck ass. Also they are only better in feel, they are actually worse in durability. I had a few of these boards arrive with the stems breaking off in the keycap during shipping. A freaking pain to remove the broken stem from a cap.
Posted: 06 Feb 2011, 01:58
Ok... No reason for me to try to find these then...Posted: 06 Feb 2011, 02:01
I can gladly send you some. I have about 50 piling up without keycaps 
Posted: 06 Feb 2011, 02:09
Did you find any decent Reuter's shells yet?sixty wrote:I can gladly send you some. I have about 50 piling up without keycaps
Posted: 06 Feb 2011, 02:11
Cannot go to the Reuters place atm, its too far from the office. Most of them were pretty dirty as far as I remember.7bit wrote:Did you find any decent Reuter's shells yet?sixty wrote:I can gladly send you some. I have about 50 piling up without keycaps
Posted: 06 Feb 2011, 02:52
Sixty - what's inside the MY switch anyway?
Posted: 06 Feb 2011, 02:58
Pain and despair.daedalus wrote:Sixty - what's inside the MY switch anyway?
Posted: 06 Feb 2011, 03:37
Sometimes lulz and fun.
Posted: 06 Feb 2011, 17:03
Unsurprisingly, it's not a million miles different to the mechanism used in the DEC LK201, although the DEC doesn't have a spring in it so you press down directly on the lever, giving the DEC its characteristic lack of any travel. Oddly enough, the DEC was another fine product of "West German" engineering, at least the ones I've seen.sixty wrote:Pain and despair.daedalus wrote:Sixty - what's inside the MY switch anyway?
Posted: 06 Feb 2011, 20:27
Hey, that is a great idea. We should start selling those!laden3 wrote:Sometimes lulz and fun.
Posted: 17 Feb 2011, 06:43
The only reasons i've saw people buy G81's ...
1. Casings (Sixty has 2 i believe with very interesting color designs)
2. keycaps (either double shots or dye sublimated keys)
Not much praise for the actual Cherry MY switches heh
1. Casings (Sixty has 2 i believe with very interesting color designs)
2. keycaps (either double shots or dye sublimated keys)
Not much praise for the actual Cherry MY switches heh
Posted: 17 Feb 2011, 07:44
Yeah, screw the switches. Some of the very worst in the keyboard world. I prefer most rubber domes over them, and that means a lot.
Posted: 17 Feb 2011, 07:47
Mike received my Dye subbed G81 keyboard for me.
His review:
1. switches HORRIBLE *barf
2. very durable heavy casing !!
3. dye subbed key caps good... Very good in fact *drool
That about sums up G81 to me.
His review:
1. switches HORRIBLE *barf
2. very durable heavy casing !!
3. dye subbed key caps good... Very good in fact *drool
That about sums up G81 to me.
Re: Old? G81
Posted: 17 Feb 2011, 13:53
I recommend that you do your OWN reviews. Why would you let someone tell you what to like or not like??
Posted: 17 Feb 2011, 14:01
This is not a good keyboard.
Posted: 17 Feb 2011, 17:09
Why would Moogle care if he has the keyboard before reviewing it? He did a complete Filco Versus Ducky comparison without owning either keyboard.
This is great - iMav told me to lay off Moogle at Geekhack so I can pick on him here.
This is great - iMav told me to lay off Moogle at Geekhack so I can pick on him here.
Posted: 17 Feb 2011, 17:12
I thought that was runeazn?
Posted: 17 Feb 2011, 17:35
Posted: 17 Feb 2011, 17:44
No, Runeazn never flagged me. He's more mature.
I hate squealers. They don't live long in my neighborhood.
I hate squealers. They don't live long in my neighborhood.
Posted: 17 Feb 2011, 22:28
There was a guy over at Geekhack that converted MYs to a switch similar in feel to a Cherry MX red.
Posted: 17 Feb 2011, 22:30
I like to convert MYs to a pile of smoking trash.
Posted: 17 Feb 2011, 22:38
Me too. Actually there is a stack of like 100 of them in one of my storage rooms still. They look so sad too without all their keycaps and even their cables cut off.
Problem is, recycling place he stopped taking my crap. I don't wanna pay 90 bucks or something to recycle them. Will have to see what I can do with them. HEY GUYS CONTEST TIME - 100 FREE KEYBOARDS FOR THE WINNER.
....no?
Problem is, recycling place he stopped taking my crap. I don't wanna pay 90 bucks or something to recycle them. Will have to see what I can do with them. HEY GUYS CONTEST TIME - 100 FREE KEYBOARDS FOR THE WINNER.
....no?
Posted: 17 Feb 2011, 23:09
You can give them away to homeless people. They can use them for bricks.
Posted: 17 Feb 2011, 23:23
Aaaah.. all the MY love in here!
Posted: 17 Feb 2011, 23:24
Can do this with G81s. Just lack the plane.
Posted: 19 Feb 2011, 03:59
i thought that the recycling people are supposed to pay you :/ ?sixty wrote:Me too. Actually there is a stack of like 100 of them in one of my storage rooms still. They look so sad too without all their keycaps and even their cables cut off.
Problem is, recycling place he stopped taking my crap. I don't wanna pay 90 bucks or something to recycle them. Will have to see what I can do with them. HEY GUYS CONTEST TIME - 100 FREE KEYBOARDS FOR THE WINNER.
....no?
Posted: 19 Feb 2011, 15:01
They pay you for metals and thats about it. The recycling place here is free, but it only accepts junk in "common household amounts". When you start bringing in 100 keyboards once a month, they kinda stop believing.Moogle Stiltzkin wrote: i thought that the recycling people are supposed to pay you :/ ?