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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Snowdog993 on Fri, 27 March 2015, 12:30:20
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I know Unicomp has it's ups and downs, but since they announced that new 122, I have been thinking a lot.
Why won't they actually make an ANSI 122? They already have the ISO. Plenty of them.
I know if they had an ANSI model, they should get an impressive boost in sales from just having that. I know a lot of people have converted them to ANSI, why not Unicomp themselves?
This also could lead to an Unsaver ANSI layout by them. I am sure people would want that over ISO.
I think this idea could work, at least with the 122.
Does it take an army of enthusiasts to tell them what people are asking for? Or am I the only one that would be interested in a 122 if it were ANSI?
Wouldn't it just take a few different keys and reprogramming to make it actually happen? Or is there something I am overlooking?
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Unicomp has been teasing that they're working on a new spacesaver or SSK for ages. I think that the Red Alert keycaps and Geekhack keycaps took a year more than mkawa was expecting. Getting them to do new products seems to be very difficult.
I'm not 100% sure how the PCB works but I do know that Fohat.digs has had this great guide on converting F122's to ANSI (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=48786.0).
I picked up a 122 last year and it was *far* too big for my uses. I'm no longer interested in using anything larger than a TKL board. I just don't have the space for it at home unfortunately. Still a cool idea to see an ANSI Unsaver though.
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Unicomp has been teasing that they're working on a new spacesaver or SSK for ages. I think that the Red Alert keycaps and Geekhack keycaps took a year more than mkawa was expecting. Getting them to do new products seems to be very difficult.
I'm not 100% sure how the PCB works but I do know that Fohat.digs has had this great guide on converting F122's to ANSI (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=48786.0).
I picked up a 122 last year and it was *far* too big for my uses. I'm no longer interested in using anything larger than a TKL board. I just don't have the space for it at home unfortunately. Still a cool idea to see an ANSI Unsaver though.
Yes, and that is why I was thinking about this. They already have the layout and hardware. All they do is change a few keys and reprogram the controller for it. I would think. They could probably do that now with a bit of nudging.
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I would be interested, though I wouldn't buy one for a few years at this point. I would like to see ANSI with windows keys though I could live without them.
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They'll make you an ANSI 122 if you ask. I think they said I could pick the 122 key board I wanted, then add four $10 customization fees.
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They'll make you an ANSI 122 if you ask. I think they said I could pick the 122 key board I wanted, then add four $10 customization fees.
So essentially they are going to charge $40 more for the same keyboard with an ANSI layout. That doesn't make too much sense to me when they can just have another model. No thank you.
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I don't think you could talk them in to doing this. People have been trying to coax a new SSK out of them for years!
Although if an ANSI 122 did appear, I might be tempted, despite my preference for downsizing my keyboards.
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I don't think you could talk them in to doing this. People have been trying to coax a new SSK out of them for years!
Although if an ANSI 122 did appear, I might be tempted, despite my preference for downsizing my keyboards.
Being part of this site and downsizing doesn't work very well, lol.
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a new SSK would be amazing.
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a new SSK would be amazing.
+1
But I don't think any of us would believe it :p
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they are going to charge $40 more for the same keyboard with an ANSI layout.
I suspect that it means some hand work set up by a human being rather than a factory machine just spitting out another same-old/same-old.
$40 per hour with a 1-hour minimum is not at all out of line for skilled labor these days.
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they are going to charge $40 more for the same keyboard with an ANSI layout.
I suspect that it means some hand work set up by a human being rather than a factory machine just spitting out another same-old/same-old.
$40 per hour with a 1-hour minimum is not at all out of line for skilled labor these days.
Valid point. Skilled labor certainly isn't cheap, even if there isn't a lot of labor involved.
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they are going to charge $40 more for the same keyboard with an ANSI layout.
I suspect that it means some hand work set up by a human being rather than a factory machine just spitting out another same-old/same-old.
$40 per hour with a 1-hour minimum is not at all out of line for skilled labor these days.
I was suggesting a new model from them, they could easily make, and people would buy. They could do this and maybe charge $10 more for it as an actual new model. If I were to buy a 122 anything, it would have to be with an ANSI layout. That is the actual question.
I am sure a lot of folks here would agree they would rather have a 122 in ANSI over ISO. They can do this.
It could be a limited edition coming out hmmmm, maybe April 1st?