What did you think of that Sidewinder X4? Here Microsoft R&D poured a ton of money into a NKRO USB rubber dome keyboard and it seemed to just fade away from view.
I didn't really like it to be honest.
The tiny F-keys I could deal with. The shinyness was annoying but I could deal with (still don't understand why they opted for that). The Media keys were nice imho and the 11 key or whatever rollover was just friggin awesome for a rubber dome. NEVER had ANY ghosting issues with this board for sure.
The key stroke was also preferrable over a regular ass logitech or whatever, as I had been using laptopts for quite a while and had gotten used to the flat scissor switches and keys, I preffered this as a nice compromise between regular desktop keyboard keys and laptop scissor keys.
But the board just didn't work for me, the main breaking point was the spacebar. It is just too long! Why would anyone want to divert from the standard length of a spacebar? It's always these small little things that designers mess up that ruin the experience.
On the GER layout you need the ALT Gr (right ALT) key quite frequently. I ended up hitting space instead of that key ALL THE FRIGGIN TIME.
Very annoying when typing and just didn't work for me. Also the keys seemed a bit too flat/unformed, so that I frequently missed a key also because I couldn't feel that I had wandered a row down or up but that could just be me. Also I think I would prefer a compact keyboard in my current setup, which of course has nothing to do with the sidewinder X4
Although the macro keys kind of eat a lot of room and make the board even longer. I have never used them finnally as well, so it was just annoying.
All in all, for me personally I didn't like it. Would I recommend it to others? ABSOLUTELY !
Because you won't get as much keyboard for this amount of money anywhere imho. Even though it's a rubber dome, it's one of the best for sure. I would however tell anyone to make sure that that stupidly long spacebar wouldn't disturb them.
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now that I laid my hands on a Deck however, I would tell anyone that their first option should be to get sth like that
I can't go back now.. I've
seen things!