Ryan, just out of curiosity... How prone is the tactical black to fingerprints and smudges? Maybe compared to the stock plastic housing?
As I said to FSund by email recently, I think pretty much any black finish will show finger prints to some extent; you just have to cross that awkward threshold from where the first few get on it and they seem out of place, until it’s more or less covered--at which point you stop noticing and it's fine. ;) I say this as someone who has used a black anodized keyboard housing everyday for about five years. I think one just accepts it as part of the premise of having something badass and black. My black-keys RealForce, for example, has an extremely shined ABS spacebar that is all the more visible because of the key color. Though I have a PBT replacement for it, I've just come to embrace this "flaw" as part of the premise of having an all-black keyboard, and as a very direct, physical sign of its intimate connection to me and my body. So I leave it there as it is.
For whatever it’s worth, the more glossy the finish (like Singularity Black) the easier it also is to wipe fingerprints off of it but the more ones that are already there will be visible. So there is a trade-off. Fingerprints are nearly invisible on the textured blacks due to the way the light plays on the surface irregularities. And finger prints are totally invisible on the aerospace aluminum finish and the Galaxy Console, as best as I can tell.