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Offline mashby

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Re: New 60% board... whatever it is called. +Rumors and speculations.
« Reply #200 on: Fri, 12 April 2013, 08:50:54 »
Great photos laffindude, nice review!

Completely green with envy over the dark grey top you landed.  >:D
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Re: New 60% board... whatever it is called. +Rumors and speculations.
« Reply #201 on: Sun, 14 April 2013, 21:42:42 »
According to their Facebook page, Tex is in the CNC prototype stage of creating an aluminum base for the Beetle.

Since I don't know if that link will work, I've attached one of the photos. Hopefully Justin will post more. :-)
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Re: New 60% board... whatever it is called. +Rumors and speculations.
« Reply #202 on: Sun, 14 April 2013, 21:49:43 »
Thank you , Mashby

I think I will take more picture when I finish all mass production ,

and I have say thanks to laffindude , he took so many good picture and details :)

Quote from: mashby on Sun, 14 April 2013, 21:42:42
According to their Facebook page, Tex is in the CNC prototype stage of creating an aluminum base for the Beetle.

Since I don't know if that link will work, I've attached one of the photos. Hopefully Justin will post more. :-)
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Re: New 60% board... whatever it is called. +Rumors and speculations.
« Reply #203 on: Sun, 14 April 2013, 22:26:39 »
Quote from: mashby on Sun, 14 April 2013, 21:42:42
According to their Facebook page, Tex is in the CNC prototype stage of creating an aluminum base for the Beetle.

Since I don't know if that link will work, I've attached one of the photos. Hopefully Justin will post more. :-)
That doesn't look like the base to me actually. It looks more like the top shell got the first machining operation from the top, before flipping it over to do the other side.
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Re: New 60% board... whatever it is called. +Rumors and speculations.
« Reply #204 on: Sat, 27 April 2013, 04:01:57 »
http://www.chiphell.com/thread-726801-1-1.html
Someone else posted bunch of picture of a sample.

My commentary:
His feet are pre-production. Production feet locks into place.
Race's case is ABS, not PBT like he said.
I would just look at the pictures and ignore what he says ;p
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Re: New 60% board... whatever it is called. +Rumors and speculations.
« Reply #205 on: Sat, 27 April 2013, 08:46:13 »
Great find laffindude. Nice pictures too!
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Re: New 60% board... whatever it is called. +Rumors and speculations.
« Reply #206 on: Thu, 09 May 2013, 04:45:47 »
For all the interested people: The Pure is available in German, UK, US and Spanish layout in Europe at kbtpure.com. I think I will get myself a German one with white backlighting an blue switches.

Edit: Of course I mean Pure Pro.
« Last Edit: Sat, 11 May 2013, 09:08:02 by kernelpanic »
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Re: New 60% board... whatever it is called. +Rumors and speculations.
« Reply #207 on: Thu, 09 May 2013, 19:47:34 »
Let's not confuse Pure with Pure PRO. The new 60% boards people are talking about in thread involve the Pure PRO (with dedicated arrow keys), no the old Pure.
I don't see the Pure PRO with ANSI (US) layout on that website yet :-(
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Re: New 60% board... whatever it is called. +Rumors and speculations.
« Reply #208 on: Fri, 10 May 2013, 02:13:34 »
I heard a week or 2 ago that Pure Pro may start shipping in late May. However, given how overly optimistic Vortex's schedule, I'd take that with a bag of salt.

On an semi related note. I have been using my Tex board as the "second board" on the desk since I got it. I haven't used my Pures much at all. I really do like the arrow clusters. I guess I am ok with the small right modifiers. I use control and alt + arrows a bunch, and they're pretty convenient to use on this board.

1 thing still bugs me. The FN + QWERT is way too easy to hit to enable the soft switches. I wish they make it that you have to press both FN keys to enable the soft switch modes. If I can get a firmware update that makes fn + arrows = home/end and page up/down. I'd replace my tenkeyless with this as my main general usage keyboard.
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Re: New 60% board... whatever it is called. +Rumors and speculations.
« Reply #209 on: Fri, 10 May 2013, 05:32:53 »
To confirm what you said laffindude, the people I ordered from on massdrop said that they're starting production on it roughly 5 days ago. Estimated delivery date is May 20, so lets see how it goes. I suppose if no one else is part of the Massdrop group buy, then I'll keep you up to date?
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Re: New 60% board... whatever it is called. +Rumors and speculations.
« Reply #210 on: Fri, 10 May 2013, 23:26:22 »
Well there you go. Did the European language version ship yet? I haven't been following at all. I heard they made the EU versions first.
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Re: New 60% board... whatever it is called. +Rumors and speculations.
« Reply #211 on: Sat, 11 May 2013, 09:09:36 »
Well ISO Pure Pro is available on Amazon and kbtpure.com.
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« Reply #212 on: Wed, 15 May 2013, 00:22:19 »
Update from Massdrop's group buy:

"Based on the latest update we got from Vortex last night, we should be expecting the keyboard to be finish manufacturing by next Monday/Tuesday, and be on its way to us [the guys running the group buy] by next Wednesday from Taiwan."
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Re: New 60% board... whatever it is called. +Rumors and speculations.
« Reply #213 on: Wed, 15 May 2013, 08:46:57 »
Massdrop GB for Pure Pro ? Grr, missed that. How come nobody posted about this here before the GB ended :-(
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Re: New 60% board... whatever it is called. +Rumors and speculations.
« Reply #214 on: Wed, 15 May 2013, 08:49:16 »
Aaccording to PDF manual in this thread, there will be a backlit version of the Poker 2 that comes with ABS caps. Can we list it in the OP? Nevermind I see that it is listed when I click the Poker 2 link. Derp a derp.
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Re: New 60% board... whatever it is called. +Rumors and speculations.
« Reply #215 on: Wed, 29 May 2013, 08:34:27 »
I really like the brushed alu look of the case, but the layout sucks.

Does anybody know whether a GH60 plate + PCB would fit without massive modding?
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« Reply #216 on: Wed, 29 May 2013, 13:33:09 »
Nope.
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« Reply #217 on: Sat, 08 June 2013, 03:44:11 »
I am retarded. I completely missed something in the Poker 2 manual before. I missed the DIP switch 1 turns capslock into LWin or L-FN. That was one of my whines about the FN location. Though, it just moves the capslock key to the LWin location, which is annoying. I want my LWin + FN @ Capslock location.
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« Reply #218 on: Fri, 12 July 2013, 14:12:34 »
 :)
Show u guys some pictures about replaceable alumni-colour case with TEX-beetle









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Re: New 60% board... whatever it is called. +Rumors and speculations.
« Reply #219 on: Sat, 13 July 2013, 02:03:26 »
Did they make a new batch of the red? That looks more red than the old "red."
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« Reply #220 on: Wed, 17 July 2013, 06:04:26 »
I heard that red case there is only one piece, don't know any other batches ~_~
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« Reply #221 on: Tue, 08 October 2013, 03:03:15 »
always on my top list.
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