Fujitsu FKB4700The most common keyboard to feature these rubber-dome-with-slider Fujitsu Peerless switches, I've been intrigued by these switches for a while... And lo and behold, I get one for £0.50 xD .
It's one of the most well-built keyboards I've seen so far. Like a Model M, it has a barrel plate and a thick, curved metal backplate (quite heavy), and a thick plastic case, but unlike the Model M it doesn't have those stupid plastic rivets, it has actual screws! The caps, again like the Model M, are snap-on, dye-sublimed PBT caps that have resisted the ridiculous amount of yellowing the case has undergone (it's almost ochre in hue, and the caps even left white spots in their shadows). The caps aren't quite as elegant, though.
The switches are the biggest problem though. The biggest advantage of these clicky switches is that they're not very clicky and thus usable in an open office. They feel a bit like buckling springs, but very rough and stiff, and the stabilised keys, which use guiding rods and aren't mounted centrally, are so dysfunctional that I had to put red stickers on just to see where I had to hit them. They are enough to make the board pretty poor for typing unfortunately, but the normal keys aren't all that uniform either. It's okay for gaming though, because you'll likely not need the stabilised keys (except the spacebar, which has a normal metal horizontal stabiliser bar [except for the fact it's spring-loaded to make it heavier], is extremely well-stabilised). Overall, nah. Sturdy as it may be, the switches are just too rough and heavy for me.
