I have a garage full of keyboards – ...
Tell me about it =P
LoLz!
Now I do think it does take a few days to get used to any new board...
I really agree with this, and I think a few people miss out on good keyboard (or at least one they would end up liking) because they didn't spend enough time with it.
do cherry blacks feel like a rubber dome?...
i am planning on getting the 11900 in the afternoon. i will let you guys know how i like it.
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I don't think cherry blacks feel anything like rubber domes. For one most if not all rubber domes are tactile and the cherry blacks are pretty much not tactile at all. That actually sounds like I prefer rubber domes, but I don't. I really, really like cherry blacks and I happen to like the 11900 very much in particular. They come with three flavors of keycaps though, and I happen to like them all but I can see some who would prefer a certain type. There are the 2 shot ones, the thick ones (same thickness of 2 shot but they are not 2 shot), and the thin ones.
On a different note, having used hundreds upon hundreds of keyboards I would not put cherry boards high on the quality list. I would easily put Filco boards above most of them easily. But that's not to say the Cherry boards are crap, they are not. But perhaps midrange to sometimes low in terms of construction.
To the OP again-Now back to me
(sorry commercial stuck in my head)
I find the Model M/F keyboards so interesting because they utilize such an interesting switch and they feel and sound so completely different than anything else. It will allways rank among my top favs.
Before I shut up though, I noticed you mentioned not wanting to risk buying certain boards because of loos/broken rivets. Well I don't know if you would be interested in it (especially since I don't think broken rivets make them all that different) but there was a great tutuorial on a "nut and bolt" mod you can easily do to the boards. Just do a search, courtesy of ripster and Sandy55.
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