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Help w/ Mechanical Keyboard

Filipe Campos
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Hi, I'm looking to buy a mechanical keyboard that should be less than 100€.

I was looking for blue or brown switches (I tested on a store and they felt really good). I'd like it to be tenkeyless and I don't need any kind of led backlight.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

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Hi, I'm looking to buy a mechanical keyboard that should be less than 100€.

I was looking for blue or brown switches (I tested on a store and they felt really good). I'd like it to be tenkeyless and I don't need any kind of led backlight.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

I got a CM Storm Trigger Z with browns for 80 bucks. Cherry MX Board 3.0 (are those even available outside Germany?) is really cheap as well. Neither is tenkeyless, though.

 

I'd say just stick around on Massdrop, for some reason they love tenkeyless stuff over there.

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I'd like a more compact keyboard, and I'm from Portugal buying from Massdrop would be kinda expensive cause of shipping

Then I guess what the others said could float your boat. Though being European is horrible for buying tech, they usually just slap a € where there was a $. ._.

 

So even with shipping, Massdrop can be cheaper than buying on Amazon (for example).

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Idk is around 30€ to ship to here and If I not wrong there is an extra taxe too

Oh yeah, tax... well dammit. 

 

A quick look reveals that both keyboards the others suggested are available sub 100 in Germany, so I'd say that they should be similar in Portugal. The Quickfire TK looks really interesting, because it keeps the numpad instead of arrow keys... your call. I don't see any problem with it, and any mechanical keyboard will be a nice upgrade for you (trust me, did the same)

 

Also keep in mind that you may want to consider getting a US or at least ANSI layout, so you can get more aftermarket keycaps. Finding ISO keycaps sucks.

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CM Storm Quickfire TK seems good, around 90€ US layout but I think the portuguese layout is 95€ I will stick with the layout because US and other layouts doesn't have some needed things. I'm upgrading from a CM Storm Octane (Bought from a friend) =P I don't think I will get new keycaps soo yeah...

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