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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: FinancialWar on Sun, 04 March 2012, 22:39:05

Title: smaller portable board with costar stabilizer?
Post by: FinancialWar on Sun, 04 March 2012, 22:39:05: hello, guys

I am looking for a portable board such as the KBC poker or similar with costar stabilizer. Does such a board exist?
Title: smaller portable board with costar stabilizer?
Post by: naranja on Sun, 04 March 2012, 22:50:38: Only mini keyboard with costar I can think of is the noppoo choc mini. have you looked into that?
Title: smaller portable board with costar stabilizer?
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Sun, 04 March 2012, 23:47:36: 356 mini?
Title: smaller portable board with costar stabilizer?
Post by: FinancialWar on Mon, 05 March 2012, 05:33:39: Quote from: naranja;535377
Only mini keyboard with costar I can think of is the noppoo choc mini. have you looked into that?

have you had any experience with the choc mini? Are they as good as Filco when it comes to typing experience?
Title: smaller portable board with costar stabilizer?
Post by: HaiiYaa on Mon, 05 March 2012, 06:07:00: Quote from: naranja;535377
Only mini keyboard with costar I can think of is the noppoo choc mini. have you looked into that?

Is that really costar? The keys feel so wobbly on the 3 noppoo's I had
Title: smaller portable board with costar stabilizer?
Post by: FinancialWar on Mon, 05 March 2012, 06:24:20: just take off the key and inspect it.
Title: smaller portable board with costar stabilizer?
Post by: theLiminator on Mon, 05 March 2012, 06:26:03: Don't quote me on this, but I think the Tenkeyless CM storm quickfire is made by costar, and should have costar stabilizers.
Title: smaller portable board with costar stabilizer?
Post by: HaiiYaa on Mon, 05 March 2012, 06:41:36: Quote from: FinancialWar;535602
just take off the key and inspect it.

I had 3 different noppoo choc mini's and all of them had wobbly spacebar and enter
Title: smaller portable board with costar stabilizer?
Post by: FinancialWar on Mon, 05 March 2012, 07:50:57: Quote from: theLiminator;535603
Don't quote me on this, but I think the Tenkeyless CM storm quickfire is made by costar, and should have costar stabilizers.

Thanks for the suggestion but CM storm TKL is not exactly portable. I am looking for something similar in size to the KBC poker.
Title: smaller portable board with costar stabilizer?
Post by: GeorgeStorm on Mon, 05 March 2012, 08:33:40: What's wrong with the poker?
It's a lovely board
Title: smaller portable board with costar stabilizer?
Post by: FinancialWar on Mon, 05 March 2012, 08:41:17: I don't like cherry stabiliser
Title: smaller portable board with costar stabilizer?
Post by: sordna on Thu, 08 March 2012, 21:58:06: Deck 82 or Data911 TG3: It has no stabilizers on the shifts/enter/backspace, so it feels great. Only the spacebar has a (cherry) stabilizer, however for the spacebar a cherry stabilizer may be not as bad as it would be for shift/enter/backspace.
Title: smaller portable board with costar stabilizer?
Post by: BiNiaRiS on Thu, 08 March 2012, 23:28:19: cherry stabilizers > costar stabilizers
Title: smaller portable board with costar stabilizer?
Post by: pitashen on Fri, 09 March 2012, 02:22:30: Quote from: BiNiaRiS;539841
cherry stabilizers > costar stabilizers

lol nice. I actually found that both are likable but thumbs up for Bini!
Title: smaller portable board with costar stabilizer?
Post by: FinancialWar on Fri, 09 March 2012, 03:17:43: Quote from: BiNiaRiS;539841
cherry stabilizers > costar stabilizers

yeah right...

just like Asian ****s > Black ****s
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Post by: RiGS on Fri, 09 March 2012, 05:05:50: Quote from: HaiiYaa;535610
I had 3 different noppoo choc mini's and all of them had wobbly spacebar and enter

Well, it's the common issue with the costar type stabilizers, and it is easy to fix this problem.
It's because of the holes of the stabilizers not being snug up against the stabilizing wire. The wiggle room lets the keycap bounce around. One have to apply some grease to the stabilizer inserts, or using tape on the wire to fix that.
Title: smaller portable board with costar stabilizer?
Post by: tp4tissue on Fri, 09 March 2012, 09:23:44: Quote from: ripster;540038
Given that Geekhack is 99% Asian I'd be careful with that generalization.

WTF,,, is this true????
Title: smaller portable board with costar stabilizer?
Post by: alaricljs on Fri, 09 March 2012, 09:24:17: Do we need to start making sarcasm signs?
Title: smaller portable board with costar stabilizer?
Post by: Typhaeon on Fri, 09 March 2012, 10:15:30: There's a link for a $50 TG3 BL82 (Deck 82) in the Great Deals forum. If you don't mind MX Black switches, the PS/2 connector, and the fact that you'll need your own mat and feet for it, I think it'll work nicely for your purposes.