Mechanical Keyboards

nitrosurf · Trackday Trickster Joined: 18 Jun 2010 Karma :

Hey ooop.

Any clicky keyboard fans on here? The prices have gone bonkers mental for new and old stuff, same as anything that becomes chic in it's intended market I guess. As an antidote to these £100 20 odd year old IBM boards and the big brand gaming units, I found this charmingly named 'Eastern Times' 87 key with 'blues'. Obviously they're not Cherry switches, so the colour thing is moot, but the unit is surprisingly very good. I do a lot of typing and have already put a fair amount of time in using this board. It has a nice weighty base, rubbery adjustable feet and doesn't move around at all. The keys have a nice amount of travel, a very satisfying click and is really pretty cool all round. Some Chinese stuff is alright!

https://goo.gl/images/b31USS

Anyone got a cool board they like?

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janner_10 · World Chat Champion Joined: 26 Sep 2011 Karma :

Why though?
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Kickstart · The Oracle Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

Hi

I do prefer the old IBM deflecting spring keyboards. Nicer to type on that the quite horrible things sold mostly these days.

I do have one that could do with fixing.

Unicomp still make them:-

https://www.pckeyboard.com/

The UK distributor is:-

https://www.keyboardco.com/

At some point I will buy another for work.

All the best

Katy
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Derivative · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Aug 2010 Karma :

I have two keyboards of this model which have served me very well at a good price.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Koolertron-Mechanical-Anti-Ghosting-Transparent-Light-permeable/dp/B011BG4QU6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475102466&sr=8-1&keywords=koolertron+keyboard

Reassuringly loud, glorious blinkenlights, could easily be used as a weapon (solid construction) and doesn't have the pointless numpad. LEDs can be disabled or set to relatively boring patterns if you're less of a ricer.

I'm selling one of them off as I've only got one computer now if anyone is interested.

MahatmaAndhi · Traffic Copper Joined: 10 Jun 2015 Karma :

I have a Logitech G710+
Won it in a YouTube competition (I think I was the only entry.)
Love the keyboard. It's fantastic But it's in American layout (but set to UK.) I'm not really bothered, because I touch-type, but I can't find the backslash for love nor money.
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nitrosurf · Trackday Trickster Joined: 18 Jun 2010 Karma :

Loui5D · Brolly Dolly Joined: 22 Sep 2014 Karma :

What switches do you prefer?

https://www.keyboardco.com/blog/index.php/2012/12/an-introduction-to-cherry-mx-mechanical-switches/

nitrosurf · Trackday Trickster Joined: 18 Jun 2010 Karma :

The board I'm using now has switches that ape the MX blues. Clicky keys with feel are what I like for typing. I do like the buckling spring boards too...

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Kickstart · The Oracle Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

johnnyarctic · Scooby Slapper Joined: 20 Dec 2011 Karma :

I've had a couple of boards now. First was a Corsair k65 with mx reds which I got on OK with, and could type fast but not accurately. now i've got a quickfire tk with mx browns. not overly in love to be honest, going to move onto something with blues as soon as i can. natural progression!

both of these are 10keyless or a version of, but i'm definitely going back to a proper numpad as i use it a lot for work so miss it at home. fancy a filco or something similar Thumbs Up

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barrkel · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Jul 2012 Karma :

I use a black Filco with blank keycaps at work; it looks a bit like this, except no markings at all:
https://s14.postimg.org/dq6xy01i9/1343720515743.jpg
(And obvisouly a Filco, not this layout.)
I use the blank keycaps because (a) I use a Dvorak layout with some customizations, and (b) because it looks neat.

Cherry red switches, fine keyboard. Full-on clicky is anti-social, whether in an open-plan office or a house you share with anyone else. Non-clicky keyboards are loud enough as it is.

The Filco is reassuringly heavy. It'll do as a self-defence weapon in a pinch. You could definitely kill someone with it.

At home I use a Corsair K90, also Cherry Red switches. I don't use the programmable keys very often, but when I do they're nice to have. Especially handy in games that have some kind of mode switching that's tedious. I would not otherwise recommend Corsair keyboards though - early firmware (i.e. first 18 months of ownership) had a really dreadful debouncing problem where keystrokes sometimes registered twice, including the Delete key - made deleting files etc. with the keyboard risky. Also, Corsair cheaped out on a bunch of keys: Home / End / Page Up / Page Down and all the F keys are rubber dome, making them mushy. I use the edit block a lot when programming and the F keys a lot when debugging, so it's upsetting.
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