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Offline bigpook

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« Reply #100 on: Wed, 11 November 2009, 19:36:19 »
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Personally, I don't like black shiny computer equipment. (Not being racist against black computers here) It's just too prone to fingerprints. With my computers, people expect them to be dirty heaps of junk so I can put as many fingerprints as I want on them.


The shiny black is nice, on the show room floor. In daily use its a fingerprint magnet and it looks terrible unless you stay on top of it and clean it. But to each their own. I just don't like shiny.
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Offline lmnop

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« Reply #101 on: Wed, 11 November 2009, 19:47:08 »
thats pretty mean. glad you are not my boyfriend except I know what Blue Cherries are and  not only would I lay you out like jesus but take your daily driver as compensation :)

I have a Das Ultimate Professional. I take it I should hold on to it and ignore this thread?
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Offline bigpook

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« Reply #102 on: Wed, 11 November 2009, 19:47:14 »
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Heh, that reminds me of my Filco's. I should first get my gf to use the one with Blue Cherries. Then secretly replace it with the Fukka version at some point. Later, replace that one with the XM.

Thats just plain mean. Oh wait...webwit. You are such a devil : )

I should add that you were ok up till the fukka; but the XM crosses the line. That's just wrong.
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Offline lmnop

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« Reply #103 on: Wed, 11 November 2009, 19:55:09 »
cute. but be careful I hurl a Model M pretty hard :)
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Offline lmnop

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« Reply #104 on: Wed, 11 November 2009, 20:11:19 »
lol did I say hurl I meant wield, lets see how high impact the keycaps really are. you can be the nasty burglar and I'll be the cop :)

dumpster diving on our first date. webwit you are a true gentleman and a scholar.
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« Reply #105 on: Wed, 11 November 2009, 20:34:23 »
i'm ready for shrapnel. lux aeterna - requiem for a dream>

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Offline lmnop

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« Reply #106 on: Wed, 11 November 2009, 21:25:49 »
thank you.
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Offline Rajagra

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« Reply #107 on: Thu, 12 November 2009, 10:59:16 »
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One hit will obliterate that excuse of a bottom

Webwit is certainly an old-school kind of guy.



I should really edit that to read "If your customers ever find out you're not testing for proper n-key rollover..."
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Offline wellington1869

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« Reply #108 on: Thu, 12 November 2009, 22:48:45 »
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Excellent.  Strong work, Metadot.  That's how you handle a defective product.


seriously. Thats how any company should handle it. Full credit to them.

I'd prefer to see perfect customer service over perfect boards every time.

I'd also like to point out that metadot actually did what gh's own fanboys refused to do. :)  Instead of making endless excuses they owned up and are fixing it.
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Offline majestouch

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« Reply #109 on: Fri, 13 November 2009, 15:11:33 »
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Metadot did better than Diatec, although I suspect it is just a business decision for them. All they are is their reputation after all. Both have the problem now that as long as they shop at Costar, without quality inspection of their own, people at geekhack will be very careful with any new products. Which is only a tiny minority of course. Although geekhack's google power exceeds its number of users by far.


Has anyone here ever bothered to compare a Das PCB to a FILCO PCB?
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Offline ch_123

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« Reply #110 on: Fri, 13 November 2009, 15:25:19 »
Any controller pics?
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #111 on: Fri, 13 November 2009, 15:37:06 »
They seem pretty similar minus the USB hub part (at least the controller, anyway).
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« Reply #112 on: Fri, 13 November 2009, 16:09:41 »
Yea, PCBs look similar. And you find HOLTEKs in lots of keyboards coming out of China/Taiwan, non-Costar boards included. So, not considering scan rate speed issues, Costar just writes bad software for Das and good software for FILCO? Does this make any sense?
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #113 on: Fri, 13 November 2009, 16:19:29 »
Considering they wrote bad software for ABS, and that was a straight Filco clone, yes.
 
EDIT: Yes, it's plausible.  No, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
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« Reply #115 on: Fri, 13 November 2009, 16:24:47 »
Why don't they just make their DAS keyboards act like standard keyboards? Then there'd be no software issues.
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« Reply #116 on: Fri, 13 November 2009, 16:27:07 »
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Why don't they just make their DAS keyboards act like standard keyboards? Then there'd be no software issues.

That approach worked pretty well for ABS and the Das III.
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Offline lmnop

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« Reply #117 on: Sat, 14 November 2009, 00:59:35 »


Das Boot!
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #118 on: Tue, 17 November 2009, 13:47:21 »
Santa's beard is crooked.  Either that, or Santa is really Sloth in disguise.
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« Reply #119 on: Tue, 17 November 2009, 13:50:00 »
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Any day now.


I have heard that DAS has actually stopped using Costar as their OEM and that the Das S has been cancelled for now. Their new OEM partner seems to be Unicomp and Unicomp is already running their machines 24/7. It seems like the new DAS S will be a black version of the Model M space saver produced by Unicomp. The DAS S silent will use greased springs.







... what.. oh daydream.
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #120 on: Tue, 17 November 2009, 14:15:11 »
I bet he replaced the list with a Teradata server farm.  He might even be outsourcing toy production to China.  I bet he even has on-board GPS in his sleigh.  Santa is becoming a...
 
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« Reply #121 on: Tue, 17 November 2009, 14:23:31 »
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Show Image


Santa: "So, is this a dog or yet another really ugly kid?"
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #122 on: Tue, 17 November 2009, 14:45:31 »
I think ripster needs to teach his daughter to shave.
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #123 on: Tue, 17 November 2009, 16:10:03 »
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GRRRRR......Last guy that insulted my dog lost a leg....
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I guess his wife called him "dear."
 
*rimshot*
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« Reply #124 on: Tue, 17 November 2009, 18:12:28 »
Are those giant marbles or are they trackballs?
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Offline leos

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« Reply #125 on: Sat, 05 December 2009, 13:16:09 »
i am waiting also for a review before i take one from digital.de. it must be a lot of pain for them to give a perfect keyboard to the mass
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« Reply #126 on: Sat, 05 December 2009, 13:44:22 »
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Andy is leaving as Community Marketing Manager at Metadot and "moving on to other opportunities".  Andy - although you only posted once (chicken!) I wish you luck in your new endeavors whatever they may be.

This new improved Das S is sure taking a while.  I hope it's the extensive testing.


I heard of this post but never actually saw it... What happened?
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« Reply #127 on: Tue, 22 December 2009, 12:10:50 »
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i am waiting also for a review before i take one from digital.de. it must be a lot of pain for them to give a perfect keyboard to the mass


I had serious double problem with the DAS Keyboard 3.
Do you want details ? Here you are:

1) The damn problematic Faulty controller that was making few keys to print gibberish instead of the usual characters.

2) Secondly the USB hub problem, you gained 2 USB ports by connecting the DAS with your PC but in parralel you would loose all the pre-existing free USB ports in your machine. And they didn't ship a double USB cable for countermeasures.

That poor company ought to double-check that expensive DAS 3 and test extensively before offering it to the market. But they didn't. And I was pissed off. I took my money but I lost customer dignity, precious time and energy.
 
This is not an accident, it characterizes the whole company mindset. Poor quality, good appearance-marketing.

I do not trust them anymore and  I will not definetely buy even if it is DAS S, DAS X, DAS Z. I do not trust any review, I am not a sheep.  
I trust my own first-hand experience.
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« Reply #128 on: Tue, 22 December 2009, 12:15:13 »
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i am waiting also for a review before i take one from digital.de. it must be a lot of pain for them to give a perfect keyboard to the mass


Are you looking for problem?
I had been experiencing some serious problems with the DAS Keyboard 3 in 2009. Do you want details ? Here you are:

1) The damn problematic Faulty controller that was making few keys to print gibberish instead of the usual characters.

2) Secondly the USB hub problem, you gained 2 USB ports by connecting the DAS with your PC but in parralel you would loose all the pre-existing free USB ports in your machine. And they didn't ship a double USB cable for countermeasures.

AND NOW they screw it again with DAS S! Unbelievable. How did this happen to them? Poor coincidence heh?

That poor company ought to double-check that expensive DAS 3 and test extensively before offering it to the market. But they didn't. And I was pissed off. I took my money but I lost customer dignity, precious time and energy.
 
This is not an accident, it characterizes the whole company mindset. Poor quality, good appearance-marketing.

I do not trust them anymore and  I will not definetely buy even if it is DAS S, DAS X, DAS Z. I do not trust any review, I am not a sheep.  
I trust my own first-hand experience.
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« Reply #129 on: Tue, 22 December 2009, 13:06:57 »
wow
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« Reply #130 on: Tue, 22 December 2009, 14:31:55 »
i bet 5$ that if the new S becomes a positive review here, you will buy it.:jaw:
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« Reply #131 on: Tue, 22 December 2009, 14:41:40 »
I just trust the tried-and-true for keyboards: IBM.
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« Reply #132 on: Tue, 22 December 2009, 14:50:13 »
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I just trust the tried-and-true for keyboards: IBM.


tried-and-true cost for sure lot money
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« Reply #133 on: Wed, 23 December 2009, 06:57:57 »
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i bet 5$ that if the new S becomes a positive review here, you will buy it.:jaw:


Nope. Take a look at the future plans of mine.

I am heading for Blue Switchy Filco. :pray2:
Revenge for what I went through because of their unprofessionalism.:evil:
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« Reply #134 on: Wed, 23 December 2009, 07:04:27 »
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tried-and-true cost for sure lot money

$130 > $30
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« Reply #135 on: Wed, 23 December 2009, 10:37:55 »
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$130 > $30


Indeed it is a paradigm of inverse cost-effectiveness in the keyboard market.
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« Reply #136 on: Mon, 28 December 2009, 08:20:45 »
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i bet 5$ that if the new S becomes a positive review here, you will buy it.

If it works, I might get the "silent" version.
 
 
If it works.
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« Reply #137 on: Mon, 28 December 2009, 08:24:14 »
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i bet 5$ that if the new S becomes a positive review here, you will buy it.:jaw:


I won't. I have no plans on spending big bucks on any keyboard.
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