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Matias, is this RGB keyboard using your switches?
Magna224:
--- Quote from: Matias on Sun, 10 May 2015, 16:15:48 ---
My general impression is that it's mostly gamers who want backlighting, and they usually want fullsize -- which make it less comfortable for mouse use, which makes no sense for gamers.
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I know right? Its just because they are afraid to try. Once you do it the numpad is not missed at all. I try to get all of my friends to sell their rubber domes and buy TKL mechanicals but none of them are willing to even try it. They will buy a worse keyboard that is a full size to have that tenkey which they do not use. ( Some of them use it for maybe 20 hours a year when playing garrys mod but they have plenty other keys they could use in their place!)
Bucake:
--- Quote from: Matias on Mon, 11 May 2015, 19:56:35 ---
How about this...?
http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/#/layouts/442174a2f723c81a0d477dd7ed78722d
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how about something like this?
http://tinyurl.com/nqrdbxl
Aricil:
Yeah, I'd be interested in seeing a backlit matias switch board. I vaguely remember Matias proudly saying how cherry copied something about their design to allow backlighting, yet so far as I know, not a single matias keyboard has this option, much less RGB. What's the point of inventing something clear to use and then not ever using it? If I remember, alps keyboards used to have to use linear switches of the num lock and caps lock key because otherwise they wouldn't be able to allow lighting through, but I think that's no longer the case. I feel like matias should market better, and perhaps do a little bit more innovation. They also tend to say that their keyboards are for typing and not gaming. saying that is a good way to exclude a gigantic chunck of the mech keyboard market.
Blaise170:
--- Quote from: Aricil on Fri, 24 June 2016, 07:07:33 ---Yeah, I'd be interested in seeing a backlit matias switch board. I vaguely remember Matias proudly saying how cherry copied something about their design to allow backlighting, yet so far as I know, not a single matias keyboard has this option, much less RGB. What's the point of inventing something clear to use and then not ever using it? If I remember, alps keyboards used to have to use linear switches of the num lock and caps lock key because otherwise they wouldn't be able to allow lighting through, but I think that's no longer the case. I feel like matias should market better, and perhaps do a little bit more innovation. They also tend to say that their keyboards are for typing and not gaming. saying that is a good way to exclude a gigantic chunck of the mech keyboard market.
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Due to the switchplate design you can't install LEDs in non-linear Alps, however none of the Matias switches have an LED cutout, so you have to use SMD LEDs. In fact, Matias used to use switches made by Forward when they were still making Alps, and later from Xiang Min when Forward stopped making simplified Alps.
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