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Your love for two keyboards has broken bloody physics?! :P 

 

Though, you may have already been asked this. But will you miss a numpad?

Hahaha yes probably !

Nope , but I think I didn't mention it's both TKL

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Hahaha yes probably !

Nope , but I think I didn't mention it's both TKL

 

Oh, they are both TKL? Yeah, you missed that part. :D

That makes it harder. :P 

If it were me and the Filco was a full keyboard, I would get that because after owning two TKL's, I like the more professional look of the full size. :D

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Oh, they are both TKL? Yeah, you missed that part. :D

That makes it harder. :P 

If it were me and the Filco was a full keyboard, I would get that because after owning two TKL's, I like the more professional look of the full size. :D

Oh nonono .. Don't make me reconsider full size ..

Anyway , what are the 2 TKL boards that you own though ?

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Oh nonono .. Don't make me reconsider full size ..

Anyway , what are the 2 TKL boards that you own though ?

 

Ducky Shine 3 and I had a CM Storm (I forget the actual branding. But it was one of the originals with silly amounts of logos :D)

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Ducky Shine 3 and I had a CM Storm (I forget the actual branding. But it was one of the originals with silly amounts of logos :D)

Actually , since you own the shine 3 , I want to ask you something --- after awhile , do you feel that LEDs are kind of meh ? Like all the excitement and hype are gone

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Actually , since you own the shine 3 , I want to ask you something --- after awhile , do you feel that LEDs are kind of meh ? Like all the excitement and hype are gone

 

I find that a good keyboard with your most favorite keyset plus the dim lighting from your monitor would look sexier compare to those LED keyboards

 

I have mine currently sitting something like this on my table, with all the shadows overlapping over the keycaps

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Actually , since you own the shine 3 , I want to ask you something --- after awhile , do you feel that LEDs are kind of meh ? Like all the excitement and hype are gone

Honestly, yes. After I got some purple keycaps and some Tek Syndicate keycaps, I ended up turning the LED's off and leaving them off. Being that I am able to touch type, they didn't seem needed anymore and when playing games, they actually distracted me. I'm actually getting a Filco next week and using the Shine for travelling from then on.

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Using a Razer Blackwidow Ultimate 2013 with MX Blues and absolutely love it. The K95 was way too much when i was buying this nearly a year ago. I kinda wish it was aluminum but i have seen custom enclosures for this keyboard around the web so that might happen. 

 

Love the software for rebinding keys and making macros. MX Blues aren't a bad gaming switch either. The green backlight i don't mind at all. Fits with the Razer Naga 2014. I would go for he Chroma but that is another £100+ on a keyboard that performs exactly the same as this one. 

 

(Also none of my LEDs have died, one of my friends has a K95 with 17 dead LEDs, it is nice though the K95)

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Thinking about these 2 now:

 

Razer Blackwidow Ultimate 2014 Stealth Elite Edition
Razer DeathAdder (non-Chroma version)

 

Less of a light show! I do most my gaming and typing from bed so I absolutely need that palm rest area to pick up the keyboard and move it around constantly. I try to avoid Corsair and Logitech anything, I was looking at Roccat also but prefer green LEDs and I type in the dark often...so leaning towards Razer. If the key switches are too loud is there some way to quiet them down? The site says 45g (force?) but I have no idea what that means in dB. Different key switches or o-rings maybe? If they are cheap enough I could save $20 getting the non-stealth version and upgrading switches/o-rings myself. Really not sure where to get switch sets or o-rings in USA either.

 

Chroma or Chroma Stealth = $169.99

2014 Ultimate Stealth Elite = $119.99

2014 Ultimate Elite = $99.99

 

DeathAdder Chroma = $69.99

DeathAdder = $46.15

 

To bling or not to bling, that is the question. As a DJ I like the idea of Chroma but on a daily basis I would have them off during the day and one color at night.

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Just got an old DIN keyboard with SMK switches. Like MX blues, but only cost me £2. Can't use it because I need an adapter. Geekhack thread: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=65938.0

 

£2? Lucky. :)

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Just got an old DIN keyboard with SMK switches. Like MX blues, but only cost me £2. Can't use it because I need an adapter. Geekhack thread: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=65938.0

I'm very happy with :) It was under some modern membrane ones at a bazaar sale and I saw white and beige, and I was like eurghmagurd Model M but I pressed a key and it didn't sound like a Model M, just a light click, but I bought it anyway. I was carrying it around the streets for an hour because I was out with my friends.

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I just ordered myself this. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Filco-Majestouch-2-Tactile-Action-Keyboard/dp/B006TTL2PI/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1416690378&sr=8-5&keywords=filco 

Should be here Tuesday or Wednesday. :D

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Let me know how quiet or clicky it is...please?! I like when stuff is made in the USA...rare now days!

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Nice 356 mini.

 

Sprit springs :)

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Let me know how quiet or clicky it is...please?! I like when stuff is made in the USA...rare now days!

 

I shall let you know when I get it. :P

Hopefully tomorrow, if not, then Wednesday. Though I did ask for next day delivery and it's to be posted today. :D

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I shall let you know when I get it. :P

Hopefully tomorrow, if not, then Wednesday. Though I did ask for next day delivery and it's to be posted today. :D

 

Thank you kind sir!

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Officially joining the Mech KB Club!

 

Mine's a portal-themed Vortex Race 2 75% keyboard with Cherry MX Browns and white backlighting:

 

Number Keys, Tab, Caps Lock, Shift and Win key are portal-themed.

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Arrow keys, Enter, Right Shift and End

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Full view

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With Backlighting:

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The keycaps were custom printed from wasdkeyboards.com. Since the layout of the Race 2 is non-standard, I had to sacrifice the modifier keys (Ctrl, Win, Alt) to have the arrow keys + the right shift and end printed. To compensate for that, I replaced them with some MKC metal modifiers from banggood.com.

 

You'll see that I also have a set of metal WASD keycaps made from MKC, also from banggood.com.

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Well, it arrived. After getting an email last night at about half 7PM from Amazon telling me that it had been dispatched. I honestly didn't think it would arrive today. 

 

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First impressions of it are amazing. It feels so well built, even surpassing that of my Ducky Shine 3. Which is something I actually expected. The traditional flex test left me shocked at how sturdy the thing was. But it's the switches. I was expecting the Browns, after only using them on the key tester I have to be soft and rather mushy for a mechanical switch. However, from what I can feel, they are very close to the Blues, just with no click. The bottoming out sound is a little softer too. I don't know whether this is because of the keyboard's construction or it is because of the switches themselves, but it's not as loud of a clack when the key bottoms out like my Ducky. I'm very happy with it, though I am going to have to get used to having a full size keyboard again, sometimes when I go back to the home row, I end up two keys to the right, but that's the only issue I have. :D

 

 

I should have cleaned the stand for my monitor before taking that picture.  :ph34r: 

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I'm getting a Zalman ZM-K500 mechanical keyboard, which uses pseudo Cherry MX switches, since Cherry's patent has expired. What kind of Cherry MX switch are these comparable to, red, blue, brown or black?

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Well, it arrived. After getting an email last night at about half 7PM from Amazon telling me that it had been dispatched. I honestly didn't think it would arrive today. 

 

 

First impressions of it are amazing. It feels so well built, even surpassing that of my Ducky Shine 3. Which is something I actually expected. The traditional flex test left me shocked at how sturdy the thing was. But it's the switches. I was expecting the Browns, after only using them on the key tester I have to be soft and rather mushy for a mechanical switch. However, from what I can feel, they are very close to the Blues, just with no click. The bottoming out sound is a little softer too. I don't know whether this is because of the keyboard's construction or it is because of the switches themselves, but it's not as loud of a clack when the key bottoms out like my Ducky. I'm very happy with it, though I am going to have to get used to having a full size keyboard again, sometimes when I go back to the home row, I end up two keys to the right, but that's the only issue I have. :D

 

 

I should have cleaned the stand for my monitor before taking that picture.  :ph34r: 

 

I'm not a big fan of MX-Browns, but to me browns feel better with Costar stabilizers vs Cherry.  

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