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Title: Focus FK-727 review (Cyan Omron B3G-S)
Post by: chyros on Sun, 03 July 2016, 10:13:38
This week a very rare bird with very rare switches; Cyan Omnoms!

Hope you enjoy! :)

Title: Re: Focus FK-727 review (Cyan Omron B3G-S)
Post by: klennkellon on Sun, 03 July 2016, 10:43:05
Yay, I've been waiting for another review of yours. Love old Focus's.
Title: Re: Focus FK-727 review (Cyan Omron B3G-S)
Post by: Mattr567 on Sun, 03 July 2016, 13:13:39
Yeah! Nice review of my old Focus. Glad you find it really interesting. Your much more of a collector than I am so it makes sense for you to have it. So it went from storage for 10+ years by some collector up north in California to me and then to you.
(http://i.imgur.com/F2OQAKE.jpg)
Title: Re: Focus FK-727 review (Cyan Omron B3G-S)
Post by: klennkellon on Sun, 03 July 2016, 14:16:14
You said that these switches are "almost linear", how is their tactility compared to lets say MX Blues or SKCM White ALPS?
Title: Re: Focus FK-727 review (Cyan Omron B3G-S)
Post by: Mattr567 on Sun, 03 July 2016, 15:11:54
Quote from: klennkellon on Sun, 03 July 2016, 14:16:14
You said that these switches are "almost linear", how is their tactility compared to lets say MX Blues or SKCM White ALPS?

Kinda like MX Brown but a tad less still. If you type normally you can barely feel it.
Title: Re: Focus FK-727 review (Cyan Omron B3G-S)
Post by: chyros on Sun, 03 July 2016, 15:18:37
Quote from: klennkellon on Sun, 03 July 2016, 14:16:14
You said that these switches are "almost linear", how is their tactility compared to lets say MX Blues or SKCM White ALPS?
I pulled out the respective boards for you to test them next to each other: they are noticeably less tactile than MX blues, and considerably less than SKCM white.

In fact they don't really feel like they have a tactile "bump" at all. I'd say pretty much all the tactile feeling stems from the shockwave generated by the switch clicker when it hits the switch housing.
Title: Re: Focus FK-727 review (Cyan Omron B3G-S)
Post by: jacobolus on Tue, 05 July 2016, 03:00:29
Yeah, when obra tried the cyan Omron laptop keyboard I have, he proposed “clicky linear” as a description. I don’t think that’s quite right, but it’s a reasonable first approximation.