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Offline akerasi

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Cherry G84-4100 review
« on: Tue, 06 September 2011, 23:40:03 »
Been using my Cherry ML board quite a bit, since I've been travelling about a lot, and it's at the least far nicer than my laptop board. I can usually avoid bottoming out the keys, but that's pretty hard with the low key travel on an ML board. Did a Ripometer HD test, it seems to actuate at 47.5gm consistently, using the F key for testing. All in all, a really nice thing to be able to throw in my bag while carting my laptop a million places. The position of the tilde key is a little weird, but understandable as it saved them some space to make this thing as tiny as it is. It's actually a little smaller than my laptop's actual keyboard, but the keyfeel is far better than the scissor switches on that board. The other layout complaint I have is that the space bar is just too small. I really would prefer to give up the 2nd windows key for that much longer of a spacebar. Luckily for me, I almost exclusively type space with my left thumb, and it's in the right place for that.
Owns, no particular order:
Ricercar SPOS (Variable Force Mod number 3), 122-key IBM terminal board (future project to learn a Teensy), 1993 IBM Model M, Dell AT101W, 3x Cherry G80-8200LPBUS (2 in pieces, 1 modded to Ghetto Reds), Cherry G80-1190HRMIT(Variable Force Mod), Wang 724 Terminal Keyboard (Pink Alps), Cherry G84-4100, Cherry G81-LUMUS, a pile of random old ALPS Macintosh boards in poor condition.
Wants:
Odd keyswitch boards for cheap (NEC sliders, space invaders, other weird stuff), Cherry Blues for cheap

woody

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Cherry G84-4100 review
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 07 September 2011, 05:32:10 »
Get the 83-key version (G84-4100 xxAxx), it has normal spacebar. The tilde and Del require somewhat more dedication to master.

Pics of the 83-key here.


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Offline akerasi

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Cherry G84-4100 review
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 08 September 2011, 15:43:36 »
The problem is, I do want a windows key. I wish there was a version that had 1 win key, not 2 or 0.
Owns, no particular order:
Ricercar SPOS (Variable Force Mod number 3), 122-key IBM terminal board (future project to learn a Teensy), 1993 IBM Model M, Dell AT101W, 3x Cherry G80-8200LPBUS (2 in pieces, 1 modded to Ghetto Reds), Cherry G80-1190HRMIT(Variable Force Mod), Wang 724 Terminal Keyboard (Pink Alps), Cherry G84-4100, Cherry G81-LUMUS, a pile of random old ALPS Macintosh boards in poor condition.
Wants:
Odd keyswitch boards for cheap (NEC sliders, space invaders, other weird stuff), Cherry Blues for cheap

woody

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Cherry G84-4100 review
« Reply #3 on: Fri, 09 September 2011, 01:46:02 »
Map the right ALT of 83-key version as Windows key.

Offline RC-1140

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Cherry G84-4100 review
« Reply #4 on: Fri, 09 September 2011, 07:17:32 »
Just recently I bought a DE-Layout G84-4100 too, and I can totally agree with this review. It's a great keyboard to carry around, but some of the keys are placed weird. I don't know why, but I keep missing the backspace key, and the DEL key is located somewhere totally different. Anyway, I'm getting used to it, so it isn't a too big disadvantage.

RC
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] Unicomp 122-Key Terminal Emulator - IBM Model M 1394309 - IBM Model M 1394312 (Terminal) - Cherry G84-4100 - Cherry G80-1800 MX Black - Cherry G80-2551HAD (with a spare NIB)