imo 87u is the best out of the box keyboard out there. I just wish they made keysets available
Yeah, build quality on my 87u is much better than my R2. Shame about that windows key size, though. R2 for sure has much nicer caps. R2 didn't really warrant a release imo, they should have worked on things like removable cable, programmable etc. before pushing it to market.
I don't think they wanted they wanted a cable that could be removed or programmable..all of that would've been easy enough to do. The R2 is already sort of programmable as it is so it wouldn't have been much of a stretch to do more than that.
They were also due for a bit of a change....and I'm of the opinion that the newer case is actually cheaper for them to produce...
They could've just kept the case and changed the keycap configuration to be more standard...but for whatever reason they didn't want to.
There are a fair number of people that dislike the 87U case...and to be honest, the first time I saw it, I hated the extra bit on top..but you get used to it and I actually really like it (and prefer it)...but the new case is definitely universally less disliked as it is more generic...