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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: rxc92 on Wed, 20 May 2020, 22:38:23
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https://www.pfu.fujitsu.com/direct/campaign/rf/sale-202005.html?fbclid=IwAR21zogehobGtFJtYo0fS3adWd36caOUSm28ZnYLAFF7ClTqcTb26L0UXH0
31,350 ($291 today) yen inc. tax for all four models, which are JIS TKL white on silver/black on silver and ANSI TKL white on silver/black on silver. The first 300 orders receive a complementary wrist rest that looks quite different from the original R2 wrist rest; it's pine-looking while the original R2 wrist rest is much darker.
The differences appear to be in the modifier keys which are Apple-specific, the top plate which appears to be brushed metal (but could just be coated plastic), and the font which imitates those on standard Apple keyboards.
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This is really cool. Thanks for sharing!
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I hope they start selling the PFU edition in the US. The non-PFU versions of the TKL Mac Realforce have been out for at least a few months, and a 30g silent version was sold by someone in California on eBay recently. The regular ones are either 30g silent, which is too light for me, or variable weight non-silent, which I don't particularly like either.
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Really now? I was under the impression that you could purchase them in the U.S. via amazon or ebay.
At the moment proxying would be cheaper than buying them from a local source, but post from Japan to the U.S. has been seemingly completely restricted due to COVID.
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You can get the regular non-PFU versions on eBay, but they're around $350, I think. I emailed Yodobashi Camera a month or so ago about US shipping, and they said that they'd ship one to the US for closer to $300, but weren't sure about shipping times.
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You can get the regular non-PFU versions on eBay, but they're around $350, I think. I emailed Yodobashi Camera a month or so ago about US shipping, and they said that they'd ship one to the US for closer to $300, but weren't sure about shipping times.
If you don't mind, please keep us posted. I'd be interested in picking one up too.
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You can get the regular non-PFU versions on eBay, but they're around $350, I think. I emailed Yodobashi Camera a month or so ago about US shipping, and they said that they'd ship one to the US for closer to $300, but weren't sure about shipping times.
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Hmm, that does seem like a sizable markup. Proxy services like tenso or zenmarket were cheaper for me. Regardless, it remains to be seen when post from Japan will be allowed into the U.S. again.
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I believe that this keyboard has been released in japan for quite some time now, except it has 35g domes. I remember seeing it maybe two years ago
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I use Mac+ karabiner and regular realforce. what's the use of Mac version?
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The benefits are mostly that the keys are labeled properly and the color scheme matches modern Macs. It would drive me nuts to use a PC keyboard on a Mac that doesn't at least have Command and Option keys on it. I was pretty thrilled when KBDFans came out with a couple of Topre keycap sets that have Command and Option keys. I have a set of their 2020 EC keycaps on a Type Heaven on my iMac. I'd love to have a set of F keys with the Mac shortcut symbols on them. I also use Karabiner, but heck if I can usually remember what F key goes to what.
Cameronmcleod71, this one's a new version. The ones that were out a couple of years ago were only available in full-size JIS layouts. The TKL ANSI version is pretty new, and the PFU version just went on sale this week.