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Hasn't the quality of das taken a dump in recent years
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Nov 23, 2015 20:56
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The Deadly Hume posted:Normally the 4Cs do (that is the TKL ones) but in this case they've got Clears, that's the point of the drop. To each their own, I'm not one to talk just having bought a hhkb, but the Das line never looked like they offered anything revolutionary to justify their price.
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Nov 23, 2015 20:58
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The full size Das 4 models have USB 3.0 ports and a volume control wheel. While not necessarily tremendously useful to everyone, they are things that differentiate them from most other options on the market.
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Nov 23, 2015 21:56
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Brightman posted:Speak of the devil, Massdrop exclusive: Das Keyboard with Clears for $149. NNNNnnnnnnnnNNNNnnnnnnoooOOOOOOOOOooOOOoooooOOOOOOOOooooooooo I just got two CODE keyboards with clears but I really REALLY want this Das with clears. AAAAARGH
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Nov 23, 2015 22:01
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Ultimate Mango posted:NNNNnnnnnnnnNNNNnnnnnnoooOOOOOOOOOooOOOoooooOOOOOOOOooooooooo Put 'em on SAMart. Someone will pick 'em up.
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Nov 23, 2015 23:11
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Yeah, sell one to frogbs.
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Nov 23, 2015 23:52
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The Deadly Hume posted:Normally the 4Cs do (that is the TKL ones) but in this case they've got Clears, that's the point of the drop. I built my friend John a knockoff of that keyboard recently. He was really happy with it. The rest of the keyboard would have to be solid gold to make it worth $575. The keys are rather cheap feeling. 
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Nov 24, 2015 00:00
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Brightman posted:Yeah, sell one to frogbs. I'd be tempted, but I really want blues!
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Nov 24, 2015 01:44
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My thesis advisor noticed I brought in a happy hacker lite 2 (not mechanical, but I like the size and layout a lot) and said, "I see you like keyboards, you should try this." He then handed me a Topre Realforce 104-UG HiPro and walked off. I had never heard of Topre so I looked it up online and saw the the price and  I don't have experience using any other high-end keyboard, so I have no point of comparison. The Topre's action is 45 g, and bottoms out solidly with a firm push. With a softer touch it feels like typing on air. It is not very noisy, even when bottoming out. The keycap faces are very concave, and cup your fingertips in an odd but enjoyable way. It is nice, but not nice enough that I'd buy my own for home use, even if I could on my current student-level budget. It's been two months and he hasn't asked for it back. Well, that's my trip report.
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Nov 24, 2015 23:46
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This is somewhat blasphemous for this thread, but can someone recommend a decent full size keyboard with the following: scissor switch concave keycaps bog loving standard 104 key layout - standard home/ins/del cluster, standard enter and \ key arrangement, with a 2.5 key width (?) enter key and a 1.5 width \, standard arrow keys The Logitech K360 has convex keycaps, so I think their cheapest scissor/concave combo is the K740 at $60, which is a little more than I want to spend. Are there any decent alternative?
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Nov 25, 2015 00:11
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 Bit of the old ultraviolet. I get the hype now.
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Nov 25, 2015 07:14
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Bestbuy is selling g710s on sale for 69.99 and I feel tempted to snag one and get into the world of mechanical keyboards, and I like the numpad and media keys it has, but is the build quality on them any good? I haven't had a great track record with Logitech's mice, but I don't know nothin about their keyboards. If it'd be a bad deal I'll probably go for something around the same price with fewer features if I'd be saving myself the hassle of having to send the thing in on warranty.
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Nov 25, 2015 16:30
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How rare is the DSA Dolch keycap set from Signature Plastics? If it's in stock should I snap it up?
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Nov 26, 2015 19:17
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Rare? Are you going to resell it? Do you even want it?
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Nov 26, 2015 21:10
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You should treat "rare" keyset like beany babies.
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Nov 26, 2015 22:23
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HEY NONG MAN posted:Rare? Are you going to resell it? Do you even want it? I actually want it, don't care at all about resale value. I'm just wondering if it will be impossible to get if SP aren't selling them. frogbs fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Nov 27, 2015 |
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Nov 27, 2015 01:27
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JacksAngryBiome posted:It's been two months and he hasn't asked for it back. My guess is he's back on the white/gray variable-weighted cylindrical concavity-having 104 or 103-key realforce that he had before.
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Nov 27, 2015 04:03
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That Pulse capset went on ebay for like a grand, so uh sell 'em while you got em
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Nov 27, 2015 04:20
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I was thinking I would pick up that Topre set on mass drop for my hhkb, but holy poo poo that is too rich for my blood.
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Nov 27, 2015 07:05
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Nondescript Van posted:You should treat "rare" keyset like beany babies. So basically this but with a pile of plastic instead: 
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Nov 27, 2015 16:48
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LUBE UP YOUR BUTT posted:Hasn't the quality of das taken a dump in recent years Thought it had actually improved? They went from using mostly plastic materials to higher quality polished aluminium surfaces, for example. The switches used for the keys should also still be the same.
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Nov 28, 2015 02:33
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tazjin posted:Thought it had actually improved? They went from using mostly plastic materials to higher quality polished aluminium surfaces, for example. The switches used for the keys should also still be the same. No, they changed switches on new boards which are knockoff cherry switches. A very dubious quality direction on blues which have consistency issues even with cherry who has crazy standards.
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Nov 28, 2015 03:45
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Das keyboards were always kind of rinky-dink, if you ask me. It's just nobody cared at first, when they were the main game in town.
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Nov 28, 2015 03:49
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Just got a Ducky One with brown switches to use at the office. Seems pretty good quality for the price, sure it's bare bones but it's certainly a lot more office appropriate than another G710+ like I use at home.
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Nov 28, 2015 04:02
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dissss posted:Just got a Ducky One with brown switches to use at the office. Got the same for home. It's really nice, however on my system there's about a 20% chance that it won't work after resuming from sleep. It's firmware related (keyboard backlight only briefly turns on when a key is pressed, but the device is dead on the USB controller when it's in a failure state) so hopefully they'll make a fix. Unplugging and re-plugging it fixes it whenever it happens.
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Nov 28, 2015 04:26
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Just got my alternate hhkb bluetooth controller by hasu. Super easy and straight forward. I spent about 20 minutes getting rid of the teensey I had glued in previously and just put the new controller right in. Now I gotta spend a few hours with the keymap editor: http://www.tmk-kbd.com/tmk_keyboard/editor/hhkb_bt/
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Nov 28, 2015 20:35
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My Shine 4 is excellent. The only down side is that during some games I get lazy about how I type and I make typos and use lots of abbreviations, which I never did previously. Probably just a coincidence. I really like the feeling of the keyboard.
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Nov 29, 2015 01:53
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Currently using a Code keyboard with MX Clears. Have two Poker IIs (60%) with MX Clears and a Varmilo tenkeyless with Gateron Browns. All three are solid boards. The browns were a bit light for me and I don't really like the 60% for daily use.
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Nov 29, 2015 03:17
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Here is my shameful collection Poker II w/ reds & Vortex red and white PBT caps WASD Code w/ greens & Taihao bumblebee black and yellow PBT caps Varmilo TKL w/ tactile greys & varmilo side-legend white & mint green PBT caps Varmilo TKL w/ clears & assorted caps from PMK grab-bags Keycool ten-key with Vortex red and white PBT caps and some stock keycool ABS caps Full keysets: Ducky yellow ABS, CTRLALT.io Miami Twice, stock stuff that came with my KBs. Not pictured: Ducky Shine 3 w/ blues & Keycool rainbow set (gave to my fiance for her classroom) Margo's Mods JD40 w/ greens & blacks I didn't realize when I ordered them, but the Pimp My Keyboard grab bags were $35 for 1000 caps each! It took me several days to divide one bag into a bunch of little ziplocs by key type. I couldn't form a complete set of any one profile or color, so I just covered one of my Varmilo TKLs with random poo poo. Mixing SA-profile with other profiles makes it borderline unusable, but whatever it looks rad as gently caress. I think with the remaining ~1,900 keys I'll do some kind of art project, I dunno. Most of it is plain black/white/grey ABS and then are quite a few old-timey point-of-sale keys with weird words on them. Later I'll make a post with all the quirky weird keycaps I found.     
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Nov 29, 2015 12:06
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Does anyone else besides cooler master make a mechanical keyboard without the arrow key sections? I find that I never use the arrow keys, but I use the numpad a ton so I would like to keep that while shrinking down the keyboard size a bit. The TK cooler masters look nice, but I was hoping for something in clears, and they just have the red/blue/brown.
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Nov 29, 2015 15:30
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Geology posted:I think with the remaining ~1,900 keys I'll do some kind of art project, I dunno. You could make a coffee table by gluing them down to a board (maybe in interesting patterns or spelling out something) and then covering it with a piece of plexiglass.
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Nov 29, 2015 17:07
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Geology posted:Taihao bumblebee black and yellow PBT caps How's the feel on these? There seemed to be a lot of complaints in the Massdrop thread about the antibacterial coating.
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Nov 29, 2015 17:20
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Thom P. Tiers posted:Does anyone else besides cooler master make a mechanical keyboard without the arrow key sections? I find that I never use the arrow keys, but I use the numpad a ton so I would like to keep that while shrinking down the keyboard size a bit. The TK cooler masters look nice, but I was hoping for something in clears, and they just have the red/blue/brown. I think you're looking for a 60% board, there are a few popular ones. If you want the number pad you can get them separate. I've not seen a lot of tenkeys without the arrow keys as well (not that they don't exist). The Poker II is probably about the most popular currently and you can find it with clears. 
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Nov 29, 2015 18:08
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ChineseBuffet posted:How's the feel on these? There seemed to be a lot of complaints in the Massdrop thread about the antibacterial coating. They feel extra grainy, like fine grit sand paper. I just put those keycaps on yesterday so I haven't gotten much mileage on them yet to know if the coating degrades with time or anything. So far I don't mind it.
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Nov 30, 2015 04:09
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Apparently that coating can turn black over time or something like that. I don't know the exact details, but if it does get nasty you can apparently remove the coating with isopropyl alcohol.
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Nov 30, 2015 05:39
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Maybe this is more appropriate for the laptop thread, but does anyone have experience re-attaching keys to a Thinkpad (T405s)? My son popped the left control key off and I can't get it to properly seat back onto the scissor mechanism. I've tried watching a few tutorials but they are literally all so insufferable that I cannot do it. Trying to find something that is just pictures and words seems to be impossible.
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Nov 30, 2015 05:50
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HEY NONG MAN posted:Maybe this is more appropriate for the laptop thread, but does anyone have experience re-attaching keys to a Thinkpad (T405s)? My son popped the left control key off and I can't get it to properly seat back onto the scissor mechanism. The key should just snap on if you push it straight down. Where it gets tricky is when the scissor mechanism gets messed up. If that's the case, you should probably just (gently) remove another key and look at how it's supposed to fit together.
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Nov 30, 2015 18:18
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And if the key is truly hosed you can pop the entire keyboard out. A replacement should be like $20 on ebay.
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Dec 1, 2015 17:51
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While you're at it you can replace the clickpad with a button one
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joined the mech board @ work club was gonna customize a bit more but wow are alps keycaps a pain in the rear end. tried taking an Alt key off but the fucker wouldn't budge, was definitely going to break the switch if I tried pulling any harder
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