TesoroGaming

This thread is really informative! I personally like the feel of the mechanical keyboard when typing.

So funny lol

We get about 15mb/s DL and 3 mb/s UL not the best.... looking into upgrading

Love the humor in this thread. Its a really good deal though

We'll have to see what we can do to get some products to Norway!

Whoa those are some nice keycaps!

Another thing about China is the knock off race is winding down. Its much harder to do so now. Also, they realize there's no longevity in it. Many of them go out business shortly after products are released. Many factories realize that if they want to compete in a global space they need to stop monkeying around and play by the rules. During my visit to China early 2013 I was initially under the same impression of China that most have. But after seeing things first hand for myself I was surprisingly shocked. I stayed there for 5 months in Shenzhen and made many friends with natives (mostly colleagues) - we even played basketball and badminton together regularly. Their middle class has actually come a long way. Anyway this is all off topic but my point being China is actually very different than I had initially imagined. Cheers!

I definitely see your point of view. Time will tell if the switches will hold up to its specifications (we think they will). One thing I have noticed being on the ground in China and doing factory inspections is that its all about Quality Control. China is capable to making anything but they usually lack in design and quality control. The anatomy of a mechanical switch is fairly simple so we turned to the other variable and enforced strict quality control policies. Most companies do this from Best Buy's Insignia Brand to Fuhu's Nabi. They find top manufactures and work with them on improving the QC standards. This is what we have done with Kailh =) Yes he did when introducing Razers new switches. They were definitely smart to take advantage of the lapse in Cherrys patent. I understand the frustration here. Cherry definitely has the experience and prestige behind their switches. Which is why we offer their switches in most of our keyboards. It wasn't until recently we integrated kswitches into our full color RGB keyboard. We tried endlessly to fit a RGB led (4 prongs vs 2 prongs for regular leds) into a Cherry switch but its impossible. Working with Kailh made it possible to bring this innovation to life. There's also the issue of supply and demand. Cherry switch outages were common in 2013 so this gave Kailh a big incentive to drastically improve their product =) Cheers. You've hit the nail on the head here. There isnt actual evidence of Kailh's inferiority. It comes from China and that is enough to raise eyebrows. Time will tell and help give the gaming community reassurance. From our end we have had the opportunity to see the product being manufactured and have high confidence in it but its hard to translate that to everyone else. Razers move to Kailh actually shows their confidence in the kswitches as well. Max keyboards was one of our early distributors in the US. They added Max Keyboard in the titles of all of our products - we're definitely not sister companies. Not sure why they did that.... but it has caused some confusion to some people.

Exactly, people should have the right of choice regardless which side its on =)

The Gandiva and Shrike Grey will be back in stock hopefully some time in April. We totally underestimated the demand. The Shrike Black Edition and Gungnir are currently in stock.

Its a product development issue. The Cherry's can only fit a single color led with 2 prongs. Fulll color RGB leds have 4 prongs and wont fit together with the Cherry's. Only Kswitches can house a full color RGB led. Kswitches have the same rating as Cherrys which is why we felt comfortable in going with them for this new product. We're happy and honored to say that the Lobera Supreme has been really well received! Any other questions let me know

This thread inspires me to up my photography game

Totally missed it. Good thing Im on the road!

All valid points. Great assessment

People should have the right of choice. Hope Mozilla pulls through