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evlbstrd posted:Anyone have advice on how on cleaning coke (a cola) off a keyboard. I have a Dinovo Edge thats impossible to disassembly and the syrupy goodness is making keys stick. Still under warranty, don't suppose I can get Logitech to send me a new one. first, wash with distilled water, even soak it for a while next rinse with 90% rubbing alcohol finally let dry with a fan for a day or 2
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Grimey posted:I have read that the release date for the Leopold is late February. I don't have the time to pull up a quote, but that is the buzz on geekhack. Now its mid march
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Robolizard! posted:Now its mid march Would it be fair to say that EliteKeyboards crawled out of its den, saw the masses waiting for a non-Topre board and scampered back inside leading to 6 more weeks of something keyboard/spring related? My friend who were waiting to get there Cherry boards went with Armygroup in Taiwan for their Filcos. The price was decent and they received their keyboards in about one week. I can only hope the rumors of Filco making a deal for a different US distributor is true.
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I will probably get to go to Japan in April and realized that there are shops in Akihabara selling Topre and Filco keyboards  Looking forward to giving them a spin (a tap?) in the shop if the shop keepers let me...(And I just ordered a Cherry G80 3000 with blue switches around a week ago too...) I am using a Cherry Cymotion Expert at the moment, which I understand is a rubber dome keyboard with quite special key pressing characteristics, though there is not that much information about that model out there. Maybe I will write up a little review as soon as I get a nice something to compare it with. Would anybody already know how the Cherry Cymotion Expert experience compares to Cherry blue, brown or Topre switches?
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newly stocked 'year of the tiger' ducky keyboard @ http://stores.ebay.com/duckykeyboard. red pcb, bare infill lasered keycaps  
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So what are my options for sub-$100 tenkeyless/compact keyboards? the Happy Hacker Lite looks ok, but I think I'll get sick of the function key thing (which I probably won't use that often, but it definitely bothers me when I have to hit all sorts of buttons to hit f10 on my mac keyboard)
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ClosedBSD posted:sub-$100 tenkeyless doesnt exist. maybe look at the siig minitouch, whatever the apple one is called, or the microsoft arc
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ZShakespeare posted:I am oddly drawn the the Happy Hacker keyboard despite it's obscenely high price and "uniqueness". Does anyone have one? How is it? I have the blank key grey version of the HHKB pro 2. I love it. There is nothing more awesome than this keyboard for what I use it for which is coding in vim. The blank keys are great because it means I had to learn to touch type completely. I thought I was a good touch typist but it turns out I would sneak a peak now and then for the keys I didn't use frequently, like a lot of the less used punctuation. The sound the keys make and the feel of them is a lot different than "cherry blues" which feel more flimsy to me than the topre now (the only other mechanical I have for comparison). The layout is actually very useful. The control key is a in a good spot and you can switch the function key to the left with a dip switch setting. This allows you to press it with a left pinky and use the arrows and other second layer keys (home/end/etc.) with the right. I find this very convenient an not at all confusing or difficult to get used to. The only thing I miss on this keyboard is a numberpad. I don't need one very often but they are ideal for number entry. It took me a week or two to get proficient using the blank keys. The biggest problem I had was finding a diagram of the keys, both layers. They didn't include one in the box. But a little google search and I was good to go. Switching between keyboards isn't at all a problem other than the twang of sorrow you feel when you don't get to use your HHKB pro 2.
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blink 182 posted:doesnt exist. drat, that's kinda what I thought. Noxious's post kinda convinced me that I could probably like using the HHKB Lite since I do a lot of coding in vim and don't necessarily need easy access to function keys. 77 on amazon isn't that bad, I guess
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ClosedBSD posted:So what are my options for sub-$100 tenkeyless/compact keyboards? the Happy Hacker Lite looks ok, but I think I'll get sick of the function key thing (which I probably won't use that often, but it definitely bothers me when I have to hit all sorts of buttons to hit f10 on my mac keyboard) I've kind of been wondering about this as well. I saw this Cherry Keyboard on Newegg (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823333036). Does anyone know if this is the same manufacture as the switches? According to the company's catalog (http://www.cherrycorp.com/english/keyboards/pdf/CHE_212613_ShortFormCat_r9.pdf), this particular model has mechanical switches as well, though it doesn't identify them. My current plan is to hold out until the Leopold boards become available on EliteKeyboards, but at $80 a mechanical board without the number pad is intriguing. lazy old sun fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Feb 24, 2011 |
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elevator music posted:I've kind of been wondering about this as well. I'm fairly certain that cherry is "the" cherry, but that keyboard does not have the set of mechanical switches you are looking for.
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ClosedBSD posted:drat, that's kinda what I thought. Noxious's post kinda convinced me that I could probably like using the HHKB Lite since I do a lot of coding in vim and don't necessarily need easy access to function keys. 77 on amazon isn't that bad, I guess I grabbed the HHKB Lite when it was linked earlier, but I'm second guessing it. I'd be happy to cut you a deal if you're interested shoot me a PM.
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Illuminado posted:I grabbed the HHKB Lite when it was linked earlier, but I'm second guessing it. I'd be happy to cut you a deal if you're interested shoot me a PM. What didn't you like about it, just the key configuration?
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ClosedBSD posted:What didn't you like about it, just the key configuration? Yup, it's just odd enough for me to have an issue with it. And I actually used a Solaris computer lab in Highschool, it's mainly because the 8-5 job requires that I use Windows w/ all the accutraments. I still have the packaging and everything. I'd absolutely love it if it just had the CTRL in the Windows configuration, but it's enough of a dealbreaker for me to go back to the Dell Quietkey.
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Howcome there's not a mac wired keyboard that's backlit?
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Bret Hart posted:Howcome there's not a mac wired keyboard that's backlit? You can get the Deck keyboards with Mac keycaps.
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The Arc is a great Tenkeyless board for the money ($36 shipped from amazon). Sure, it doesn't have mechanical switches, but I think it's an absolute joy to type on. Would be worth looking for one at a Bestbuy or something to try out.
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The_Franz posted:You can get the Deck keyboards with Mac keycaps. They're not Mac keyboard layout though. Unfortunately nobody really bothers to make one since the PC layout is close enough.
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My Logitech G110 doesn't work with my BIOS for some reason  Motherboard is ga-ma770t-ud3p I've updated the BIOS and still nothing. How lame. Other USB keyboards work fine.
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Does anyone know where I can get an IBM Modem M or one of its analogues, or just a spare cable for one (I have got a board with no cable) in the UK? Everywhere I find appears to be in the US and I don't want to deal with customs and taxes. Or even something that's kind of similar.
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Diatec is now selling their filco keyboards on Amazon (via the keyboard company) http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&search-alias=electronics&field-manufacturer=The%20Keyboard%20Company
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Elitekeyboards is taking preorders on their Leopold line coming out March 7th. I'm trying to decide between Brown and Blue. I type a lot and I sorta game, so I'm thinking blue. Yeah yeah?
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blowingupcasinos posted:Elitekeyboards is taking preorders on their Leopold line coming out March 7th. I'm trying to decide between Brown and Blue. I type a lot and I sorta game, so I'm thinking blue. Yeah yeah? I really really want one with blues (I think, never really knew which kinds I've used before), but given that they are supposed to be the loud keys, my girlfriend will probably leave me after a week of using it at night.
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Having used both, blues have a much more satisfying tactility than the browns. I'd say blues should be the default choice unless you really need them quieter, then go browns. Even so, I've used my keyboard without waking my gf in the next room, but she's a moderately heavy sleeper.
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One Swell Foop posted:Having used both, blues have a much more satisfying tactility than the browns. I'd say blues should be the default choice unless you really need them quieter, then go browns. Even so, I've used my keyboard without waking my gf in the next room, but she's a moderately heavy sleeper. I've also used both and I fully agree with this. The browns aren't that much quieter anyway, unless you train yourself not to bottom out the keys, or do some mod with o-rings.
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If your computer is in your bedroom and someone else sleeps with you, buying something with blues will most likely result in them waking up, sneaking behind you, and strangling you with piano wire.
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Blues are loud, and I can understand some people finding them annoying. My wife happens to enjoy my loud keyboards the majority of the time. She has stated on several occasions that the normal typing/programming noise that my Cherry Blues or Unicomp Buckling Springs produces is soothing. This is from the same and different rooms at random times during the day. The wife on the other hand does not enjoy the racket coming from my keyboards when I am doing speed typing tests. I have been looking into getting a variable weighted Realforce in the future to help offset some hand pain. The noise from the Realforce appears far more discrete in the youtube videos, but the price of the boards is off putting.
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I prefer the light feel of the browns over the click of the blues myself. Brown vs. Blue for noise, I'd say they both click at approximately the same volume, it's just that with the blues there are twice as many clicks.
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ClosedBSD posted:So what are my options for sub-$100 tenkeyless/compact keyboards? the Happy Hacker Lite looks ok, but I think I'll get sick of the function key thing (which I probably won't use that often, but it definitely bothers me when I have to hit all sorts of buttons to hit f10 on my mac keyboard) The Leopold being released soon by EliteKeyboards is $99. My roommate just got a Noppoo Choco mini off eBay for $99, too. The Choco mini is super tiny. There's also the KBC Poker which is similar to teh Choco mini, but I think it looks nicer w/ less garish colors.
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blowingupcasinos posted:The Leopold being released soon by EliteKeyboards is $99. My roommate just got a Noppoo Choco mini off eBay for $99, too. The Choco mini is super tiny. There's also the KBC Poker which is similar to teh Choco mini, but I think it looks nicer w/ less garish colors. the KBC poker looks like an awesome keyboard to threw in my laptop back when I visit parents snd travel. At first I saw it and said "function key to use arrows?" but then I saw that they were under wasd and thought it was awesome.
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LEOPOLD PREORDERS are up! Go goons go!
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Avalanche posted:LEOPOLD PREORDERS are up! Done and done. Also I'm a sucker and bought a red escape key and purple WASD. Gaaah!
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Illuminado posted:I hope I'm not opening up a  I'm going to use this for a week or so but I think you just blew my poor little mind
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of worms here, but am I the only person who made the switch to ESDF here and found it to be 10x better for every possible game imaginable?
bacon! posted:Done and done. Also I'm a sucker and bought a red escape key and purple WASD. Gaaah! Brown here. And just the red ESC key. loving stoked.
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blowingupcasinos posted:Brown here. And just the red ESC key. loving stoked. I think I'm gonna put in an order for blues with the red ESC by the end of the week. I really hope the spare red key can fit over Insert/Delete since it seems to be the two keys I have to look for every time I'm vimming it up.
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Avalanche posted:LEOPOLD PREORDERS are up! The cost to ship one to Australia is over half the cost of the keyboard. Maybe if I can find at least another Aussie who wants one too the cost starts becoming more respectable (though considering the BlackWidow is less than AU$100 possibly not - even if the macro keys on it are loving annoying).
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It might be cheaper for an australian to just import direct from china with obook to be honest.
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Is there any other place to order Keycaps for Leopold boards? Google does not help
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blowingupcasinos posted:Is there any other place to order Keycaps for Leopold boards? Google does not help Key caps, especially quality key caps, are almost impossible to find online. Your best option is to sign up for the geekhack forums and getting in on their group buys. The guys over there are flat out obsessed with their keyboards and dedicated a disproportionate amount of their time to vetting different asian key producers, so your best bet for price + quality is through them. Unfortunately, a lot of the buys want you to get a full set of keys.
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I want a new gaming keyboard with "clicky" keys and a palmrest so does anyone have suggestions? I would prefer not to spend over $50 if possible. Edit: This one perhaps? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823109191 Edit 2: I don't want a keyboard with soft or mushy keys. spasticColon fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Mar 9, 2011 |
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