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I don't have a computer desk anymore, I just have my PC hooked up to my TV and mostly use a controller for games and a K400 mouse/keyboard thing for everything else. If I want to play an FPS or something where I want M+KB support then I use that K400 and a separate wireless mouse on this piece of poo poo two foot long folding table I got at Walmart. It works, but I do kind of miss using my Corsair KWhatever. Is there such thing as a pretty okay mechanical keyboard that's both wireless and pretty small?
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There's a bluetooth HHKB out there but lol is it ever not cheap. Varmilo makes a dope bluetooth keyboard but it's not at all small. You would do better to get a keyboard with a removable usb cord and buy a usb-bluetooth adapter. I'm actually setting something like this up for myself right now. Massdrop has this but I'm sure I can find better https://www.massdrop.com/buy/bluetooth-keyboard-adapter?referer=8CGLRQ
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Jan 19, 2017 20:12
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Not mechanical but I got a refurbished K820 on ebay for like $25 a couple of months ago. It has logitech's nicer scissor switches, multi-touch trackpad, may as well have been new, and is a huge upgrade over the k400 in every way.
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Ok thread, as a reward to myself for pulling off 5, 60 hour weeks I'ma gonna get myself a new keyboard. I currently have a decade + old saitek eclipse 2 membrane. What's a good mechanical rgb keyboard with a metric butt-ton of extra programmable buttons. My work requires a few dozen specialized symbols and formatting weirdness that I would like to vastly simplify by assigning/toggling them to single keys. I do game as well, nothing pro level though. I don't think the wife would tolerate a clicky board either. Been looking at the massive cosair metal boards with browns. Is that ok or are the other great options that I'm easily missing?
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Jan 20, 2017 02:31
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The RGB and extra macro keys are actually not really enthusiast features so your best bet for those is corsair. The best thing Is to head to s Best Buy and try switches. I recommend tactile which means either brown (trash tier) or blues (good if you can have the noise) Or spend a stupid amount on a realforce RGB.
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Jan 20, 2017 08:45
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Zigmidge posted:There's a bluetooth HHKB out there but lol is it ever not cheap. Varmilo makes a dope bluetooth keyboard but it's not at all small. Haha drat no that is not cheap. Too bad too because that looks like exactly what I'd want if it was at all reasonably priced. It looks like the massdrop thing is sold out, but I can still get it at the manufacturer's site. I've looked around a bit and also found some other one that was part of an IndieGogo campaign but it appears to be sold out on Amazon. Are there any other ones to look for? I'd like to get off of Amazon if possible since I have a bunch of gift card money on there and it's kind of a hard thing to search for without getting 30 pages of USB receiver dongles.
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Jan 20, 2017 14:45
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Im sure that this guy has been posted in the past even though I try to keep up with this thread but I like his style and Keyboard collection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=channel?UCD0y51PJfvkZNe3y3FR5riw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKOWVKJRFX8
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Jan 21, 2017 23:59
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I'd like to get my first mechanical keyboard and am eyeing the TADA68. However, I can only find it on TaoBao. Would it be a bad idea to order it through them? I live in the US.
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Instrumedley posted:I'd like to get my first mechanical keyboard and am eyeing the TADA68. However, I can only find it on TaoBao. Would it be a bad idea to order it through them? I live in the US. Keep in mind that China is currently shut down for Chinese New Year. Nothing is going to ship out for at least a couple weeks, possibly longer.
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If matched feature-for-feature, I would straight up trade my Corsair for a Razer right now. (OSX support) EDIT: Okay, seems my problem was a bug with OSX that was fixed yesterday. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Jan 24, 2017 |
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Jan 24, 2017 10:23
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Are there any wireless keyboards out there which are solar powered and/or powered by kinetic energy from typing? It sounds cool to not have to replace batteries, though I would think it would be nice to have the option to hook them up if there is a problem (so you don't end up with a useless brick if the charging method goes wrong). I saw some solar powered ones from a cursory search, but I saw some people talking about how sometimes the panels wouldn't work, causing the keyboard to eventually become useless.
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Jan 26, 2017 16:30
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Some folks at my work have solar powered Logitech keyboards. They are cheap pieces of poo poo (super chintzy) but they do work.
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garfield hentai posted:Haha drat no that is not cheap. Too bad too because that looks like exactly what I'd want if it was at all reasonably priced. Yeah there's this Nulaxy brand one that I'm finding on Amazon but also seems to be unavailable. It looks like the consumer side of this kind of device is non-existent! This is looking like it's going to be a solder and raspberry pi project and even then I'm reading in random forum posts that programmable layer keyboards don't play all that well through this sort of thing? Poop.
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thechosenone posted:Are there any wireless keyboards out there which are solar powered and/or powered by kinetic energy from typing? It sounds cool to not have to replace batteries, though I would think it would be nice to have the option to hook them up if there is a problem (so you don't end up with a useless brick if the charging method goes wrong). Logitech makes one. I found that it gets enough light to last through a work day in my house (with sunlight through a couple of side windows) in spring/summer/fall but not winter. Gaming will drain it a lot faster. I gave up on it after a couple of years and got a wired mechanical. On the plus side, it's about as thin as a keyboard can be and has decent scissor switches. If you could plug the fucker in to run wired or just top off the little watch battery it runs on, I might still be using it.
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Jan 26, 2017 22:36
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Astrobastard posted:Im sure that this guy has been posted in the past even though I try to keep up with this thread but I like his style and Keyboard collection His videos are certainly entertaining, but they're not very useful for people who don't take daily trips to the recyclers.
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The last custom keycap set I've gone in for hasn't even shipped yet and I've already bought into another drop what is wrong with me. The way the modern world is going, six month lead times seem pretty optimistic.
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ExcessBLarg! posted:Thomas is pretty awesome, but he pretty much does vintage stuff only. He's down on Cherry MX (including modern ones) and I don't think he's ever reviewed a Topre board. Oh for sure, i dont own any "vintage" Keyboards apart from the first Mac Pro keyboard but I am a Keyboard freak thanks to this thread and like his awkward but charming sense of humor and switch teardowns.
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garfield hentai posted:Haha drat no that is not cheap. Too bad too because that looks like exactly what I'd want if it was at all reasonably priced. I actually have a brand new Azio MK Mac that I'm returning to Amazon for non-performance related reasons. I need multi device support, but this is really made for a single device. It has incredibly low lag; my wife types at around 100 WPM and it was perfectly responsive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7B45yslklc
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How dare they call it a Mac keyboard without a = key on the numpad! Actually that keyboard is really weird. It has Clear but no =. (cost cutting, I get it.) It has glyphs for Control but not Option. Glyph (and the correct name) on Return but the wrong glyph on Enter. Eject instead of Help. ~Coxy fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Feb 1, 2017 |
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That's what happens when you put legends on your keycaps.
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Thoughts on the cooler master masterkeys pro?
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Loveline posted:Thoughts on the cooler master masterkeys pro? I like the backlighting a lot. Tried one at a store. I use Topre for typing so no real interest in buying one myself though. The mouse it comes with is cute, like a mini Deathadder.
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Loveline posted:Thoughts on the cooler master masterkeys pro? I just got one in the TKL, MX blue variant a few days ago. I like it so far, switches feel alright and the matte plastic feel of the keycaps prevents a lot of finger slipping and mis strokes.The lighting effects are great and easily controllable through the function key if you don't want to install any software for it.
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I bought a Logitech G610 recently, love typing on it but I think I want a keyboard without a numpad. I'm in the UK so obviously we do things differently. This is the only option I can find for a UK layout tenkeyless keyboard, does anyone have any other recommendations? I think Ilike brown switches. http://www.keyboardco.com/keyboard/uk-filco-ninja-majestouch-2-tenkeyless-nkr-tactile-action-keyboard.asp
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I'm looking for a full layout keyboard with Cherry Blues and backlit keys. I absolutely hate new style keycaps with crap fonts, I only want older style ones that look classy with nice fonts. I've been looking around for the last hour and finding not much with nice fonts. Help?
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redeyes posted:I'm looking for a full layout keyboard with Cherry Blues and backlit keys. I absolutely hate new style keycaps with crap fonts, I only want older style ones that look classy with nice fonts. I've been looking around for the last hour and finding not much with nice fonts. Help? https://codekeyboards.com/ Based on recommendations through the past few pages+, I bought one of these and it should be arriving tomorrow. Seems to also be what you're looking for.
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onesixtwo posted:https://codekeyboards.com/ While nearly everything about those keyboards is awesome, one thing I cannot stand:  I know, I know. My OCD can't stand the horizontal Alt characters. They have to be vertical, top/bottom.
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How much do you want to spend then?
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Buy a set of custom keycaps that you like if you're going to be that picky in this nichest of hardware markets.
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How about the cooler master that was just mentioned? Their masterkeys pro L comes in backlit cherry blues, vertical alt keys, and looks almost exactly like that code keyboard just linked. I've been using the TKL variant and have been loving it so far. http://www.coolermaster.com/peripheral/keyboards/masterkeys-pro-l/
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DarkEnigma posted:How about the cooler master that was just mentioned? Their masterkeys pro L comes in backlit cherry blues, vertical alt keys, and looks almost exactly like that code keyboard just linked. I've been using the TKL variant and have been loving it so far. That looks like the best one. Thanks.
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After years of churning through lovely 10 quid keyboards I've decided to embrace mechanical but I don't want to spend more than 100 quid. Skimmed through the past 10 or so pages on this thread and googled around and I've come up with a few options. Logitech G610 looks alright, maybe one of these CoolerMaster keyboards, Pro White or Quick Fire, found some cheapish Corsair K70s with red switches, I kinda want brown switches though and for some reason the only places I'm finding with UK K70 layouts with browns are a load more expensive. maybe one of those Unicomp IBM style keyboards? Are those okay for gaming? I could just get a Cherry G80 for about 60 quid which seems pretty good but as I said I kinda want browns. As I mentioned I do a spot of gaming but I mostly want something that lasts longer than a year, feels good and some media keys would be a bonus but not necessary.
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cool new Metroid game posted:After years of churning through lovely 10 quid keyboards I've decided to embrace mechanical but I don't want to spend more than 100 quid. Skimmed through the past 10 or so pages on this thread and googled around and I've come up with a few options. Logitech G610 looks alright, maybe one of these CoolerMaster keyboards, Pro White or Quick Fire, found some cheapish Corsair K70s with red switches, I kinda want brown switches though and for some reason the only places I'm finding with UK K70 layouts with browns are a load more expensive. maybe one of those Unicomp IBM style keyboards? Are those okay for gaming? I could just get a Cherry G80 for about 60 quid which seems pretty good but as I said I kinda want browns. As I mentioned I do a spot of gaming but I mostly want something that lasts longer than a year, feels good and some media keys would be a bonus but not necessary. The ibm/unicomp buckling springs are remarkably bad for gaming; inconsistent firing depth and a long reactivation. If you work in a shared office, your mates will also conspire to murder you. UK layouts are probably less common and therefore more expensive in your new niche hobby of collecting keyboards.
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Gaming on a buckling spring keyboard feels weird at first, but it was fine for the games I was playing.
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My CODE arrived, quick question: Are you supposed to install O-Rings on the modifier keys? I popped off my L-Shift, and I immediately regret doing so. Thing took forever to get back on, and it still is getting stuck if I apply too much pressure. Luckily operating pressure doesn't get stuck, but if I'm intentionally pushing it down it will be stuck until I tap on the opposite corner.. I'm not certain if it is due to the O-Rings & the larger switch & spring, or if I didn't set the spring proper. Only other modifier I would consider dampening would be my spacebar, but I'm not sure if I even want to take that off considering the shift gave /is giving me that much trouble.
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Check the stabilizer bar. It's probably not seated properly if the key is getting stuck.
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Cool, thanks! I'll see how it is doing after some regular use, enjoying how the Clear + red orings feel compared to my old browns.redeyes posted:While nearly everything about those keyboards is awesome, one thing I cannot stand: You know, I couldn't place why the keys seemed weird. I completely missed the fact that they were horizontally justified until you called it out. I could see that being one of those things to be irksome. I just went from using a blank keycap set for 5 years before ordering this CODE, so I can't say the key caps were a huge selling point either way for me.
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redeyes posted:While nearly everything about those keyboards is awesome, one thing I cannot stand: If they where vertical they would not light evenly.
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onesixtwo posted:My CODE arrived, quick question: Are you supposed to install O-Rings on the modifier keys? I popped off my L-Shift, and I immediately regret doing so. Thing took forever to get back on, and it still is getting stuck if I apply too much pressure. Luckily operating pressure doesn't get stuck, but if I'm intentionally pushing it down it will be stuck until I tap on the opposite corner.. I'm not certain if it is due to the O-Rings & the larger switch & spring, or if I didn't set the spring proper. Only other modifier I would consider dampening would be my spacebar, but I'm not sure if I even want to take that off considering the shift gave /is giving me that much trouble. Use a really tiny flat head screwdriver to make sure the stabilizers are connecting back to the board properly. I said "gently caress" when I popped off my first key with the stabilizer too, but once I figured out how it went on (took 5 minutes or so), the rest were pretty simple. If it feels funky, you attached it wrong.
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