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Offline TomahawkLabs

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Re: Highest quality readily available keyboards
« Reply #50 on: Mon, 13 January 2025, 12:11:22 »
Everyone seems to forget that Matias still makes full size keyboards using their own switches that have the same stem, pin location, and body of the SKCM/SKCL switches. They are build similar to MX style, buy with the physical features of Alps. I would say if you want a non-MX style keyboard, full size, and brand new, Matias is probably the only off-the-shelf option. Specifically the Matias Tactile Pro. If you get a wild hair, you could swap the switches with vintage Alps.
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Offline iri

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Re: Highest quality readily available keyboards
« Reply #51 on: Mon, 13 January 2025, 12:36:26 »
I remember my Matias board. Its quality was ****. I read a few reviews online now that you've mentioned them, and a lot seem to mention issues such as ghosting. Not sure if that's due to switches.
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Offline TomahawkLabs

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Re: Highest quality readily available keyboards
« Reply #52 on: Mon, 13 January 2025, 12:38:40 »
Bummer. Since they make the switches, they are also the only ones to make boards for it (outside custom stuff). The only non-MX style switches are all low profile/funky and I can't recommend any of that. Hopefully you find something!
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Offline iri

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Re: Highest quality readily available keyboards
« Reply #53 on: Mon, 13 January 2025, 12:56:39 »
ok let's look at my own reviews lol

Quote from: iri on Sat, 23 March 2013, 01:50:22
i hate everything connected to matias mini quiet pro.
Quote from: iri on Thu, 28 March 2013, 23:19:09
fyi, matias quiet pro mini isn't any good.
Quote from: iri on Mon, 25 March 2013, 22:30:30
quiet pro feels exactly like a crisprier rubber dome with spring underneath. and the board's quality is rubbish. switches are inconsistent. they feel very different when center pressed, off-center pressed, pressed in different sides, etc. and the switches themselves feel different. and the keycaps aren't even.
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(...)Whereas back then I wrote about the tyranny of the majority, today I'd combine that with the tyranny of the minorities. These days, you have to be careful of both. They both want to control you. The first group, by making you do the same thing over and over again. The second group is indicated by the letters I get from the Vassar girls who want me to put more women's lib in The Martian Chronicles, or from blacks who want more black people in Dandelion Wine.
I say to both bunches, Whether you're a majority or minority, bug off! To hell with anybody who wants to tell me what to write. Their society breaks down into subsections of minorities who then, in effect, burn books by banning them. All this political correctness that's rampant on campuses is b.s.
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Offline iri

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Re: Highest quality readily available keyboards
« Reply #54 on: Mon, 20 January 2025, 17:57:17 »
I've got the Niz delivered. I wouldn't call it remarkably high quality (some keys are inconsistent), but it's interesting and feels similar to Topre, but I don't have the problems that I had with Topre when typing on the Niz. Also, the 35 weight is quite unusual =)

By pure coincidence, on the same day I received two replacement PCB's for my broken AEK =)
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(...)Whereas back then I wrote about the tyranny of the majority, today I'd combine that with the tyranny of the minorities. These days, you have to be careful of both. They both want to control you. The first group, by making you do the same thing over and over again. The second group is indicated by the letters I get from the Vassar girls who want me to put more women's lib in The Martian Chronicles, or from blacks who want more black people in Dandelion Wine.
I say to both bunches, Whether you're a majority or minority, bug off! To hell with anybody who wants to tell me what to write. Their society breaks down into subsections of minorities who then, in effect, burn books by banning them. All this political correctness that's rampant on campuses is b.s.
-Ray Bradbury
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