The return of Hall Effect Switches

[NumLock21]

5 hours ago, Prysin said:

post formatting is wrong. please fix.

I tested out in both day and night theme and it can be read just fine. But I still changed the text to automatic. Is it fixed now?

 

[potoooooooo]

9 hours ago, SurvivorNVL said:

As a keyboard aficionado - Hall Effect switches are the Holy Grail, especially given they are working on modernizing the Hall-Effect clicky, linear clicky, and tactile switches for the next run in later April.  This is currently the keyboard renaissance all over again, given ALPS are making a return through i-Rocks, using Cherry compatible ALPS-designs, albeit nobody will ever likely remake ALPS SKCM Greens or Yellows, or the glory that was Complicated Blues, but the fact someone is doing Hall Effect is great.  Hall Effect > Alps > Topre > Buckling Springs > Gateron > Cherry MX.  It's still the greatest shame that Cherry was the one that won in the end.  ALPS simplified and especially the complicated series were, and are still to this day - leagues upon leagues better than cherry by design alone, and then on feel.

i-rocks feel nothing like alps

[TheReal1980]

I remember Dreamcast joypads had hall effect sensors for the L and R.

[Prysin]

6 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

I tested out in both day and night theme and it can be read just fine. But I still changed the text to automatic. Is it fixed now?

 

i meant formatting for news posts. no idea what is YOUR opinion and what is quoted from the article

[NumLock21]

22 minutes ago, Prysin said:

i meant formatting for news posts. no idea what is YOUR opinion and what is quoted from the article

I basically summarized the article. And have no opinion on it. Not everything needs to have a opinion.

 

[Prysin]

6 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

I basically summarized the article. And have no opinion on it. Not everything needs to have a opinion.

 

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• Your thread must include some original input to tell the reader why it is relevant to them, and what your personal opinion on the topic is.

please do follow the posting rules

[SurvivorNVL]

12 hours ago, potoooooooo said:

i-rocks feel nothing like alps

Very true.  They're at least, trying.  MATIAS doesn't even try.

@Technicolors I have tried probably 50 keyboards, and I currently own 30, and have gradually been getting rid of every Cherry board I've ever owned, except for my MX Clears and lubed MX Greens.  Stock clears are -okay-, and lubed greens with the click killed are a very unique, heavy feeling switch.  I also like Whites, but they're not worth a straight purchase for when I can just get stickered and lubed 62g Korean Blues.

Topre still has a soft spot in my heart, given it's sort of tactile and a linear at the same time.  I'm currently using a Novatouch right now, which will soon be outfitted with 55g domes and hypersphere rings, so that way it's quiter, more tactile, and I can make use of these SA keycaps even more to their potential. 

[potoooooooo]

5 hours ago, SurvivorNVL said:

Very true.  They're at least, trying.  MATIAS doesn't even try.

@Technicolors I have tried probably 50 keyboards, and I currently own 30, and have gradually been getting rid of every Cherry board I've ever owned, except for my MX Clears and lubed MX Greens.  Stock clears are -okay-, and lubed greens with the click killed are a very unique, heavy feeling switch.  I also like Whites, but they're not worth a straight purchase for when I can just get stickered and lubed 62g Korean Blues.

Topre still has a soft spot in my heart, given it's sort of tactile and a linear at the same time.  I'm currently using a Novatouch right now, which will soon be outfitted with 55g domes and hypersphere rings, so that way it's quiter, more tactile, and I can make use of these SA keycaps even more to their potential. 

What do you mean, Matis doesn't even try? Matias is literally a 100% accurate simplified alps clone.

[RagnarokDel]

On 30/11/2016 at 1:25 PM, Doobeedoo said:

Well very nice. Though how do these compare to the optical keyboard switches.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/what-are-optical-keyboard-switches,32352.html

 

definately invinceble. Definately asian!

[Tangtawan]

By far this will be the smoothest keyboard switch in the market and selling at half the price of those HHKB and RealForce boards.

[DeScruff]

On 11/30/2016 at 0:26 PM, zMeul said:

this should be immediately implemented in mice - it would get rid of the double clicking as the leaf spring loses tension over time

You have no idea how much I hate mice for that reason.
I mean I have a keyboard from 1988 and it works 100% fine. Never gives me any trouble. - But a mouse thats ~1 year old? No matter what always seems to have issues, and its been like that for years. You'd swear we were still using the same switches as we were back in the 90s.

[zMeul]

4 minutes ago, Sypran said:

You'd swear we were still using the same switches as we were back in the 90s

a microswitch that was built back then, I would bet you it would withstand far more abuse than one built in the last decade

[VerticalDiscussions]

On 30/11/2016 at 6:25 PM, Doobeedoo said:

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Holy crap, your telling me those switches can take you onto outer space itself o-O?

[Dackzy]

Do you get a lot of tactile feedback? If not then fuck this shit.

[Paranoid Kami]

I would buy this in an instant for both mice and keyboard. I hate clicking too much on my mouse for rts games and I hate how heavy my keyboard keys are when I play mmo's.

[divito]

On 12/2/2016 at 1:12 AM, SurvivorNVL said:

Very true.  They're at least, trying.  MATIAS doesn't even try.

@Technicolors I have tried probably 50 keyboards, and I currently own 30, and have gradually been getting rid of every Cherry board I've ever owned, except for my MX Clears and lubed MX Greens.  Stock clears are -okay-, and lubed greens with the click killed are a very unique, heavy feeling switch.  I also like Whites, but they're not worth a straight purchase for when I can just get stickered and lubed 62g Korean Blues.

Topre still has a soft spot in my heart, given it's sort of tactile and a linear at the same time.  I'm currently using a Novatouch right now, which will soon be outfitted with 55g domes and hypersphere rings, so that way it's quiter, more tactile, and I can make use of these SA keycaps even more to their potential. 

I don't think I'll ever be able to part with my MX Greys, or go to anything lighter

[SurvivorNVL]

10 minutes ago, divito said:

I don't think I'll ever be able to part with my MX Greys, or go to anything lighter

Early-production Gateron Super Yellows.  120g actuate.  Bottom out was around 140g.  Now the switches are 50/55g.  MX Blacks are 60/75g.  Gateron blacks are 60/65g.  Gaterons are so damn smooth, though I know they're now in Korea using and releasing Gateron Tactile Clears in 67g springs.

[Deletive]

I'll keep my zealios =/ 

[divito]

1 minute ago, SurvivorNVL said:

Early-production Gateron Super Yellows.  120g actuate.  Bottom out was around 140g.  

Sounds like my kind of switch.