I think I like the layout of this keyboard, the key presses feel pretty smooth and they are definitely quiet and soft in terms of the key feel. They feel a little "meatier" than the Topre I had previously as well as having a softer landing, and they definitely have a completely different sound than the Topre did. The Topre had a pretty solid "clock" type sound when bottoming out the keys, but this board is much quiter and softer on the landing. This may be because it's still brand new and will change, but so far I really like the feel of the keys. I will always take my first impressions with a grain of salt however, because I usually really like the fell of almost any new decent key that I've not yet typed on for the first little while but then my opinion changes
The keycaps feel a bit "cheap" -- but I think that can be said of most of them after you have gotten used to replacing your keycaps with high quality ones that you choose for yourself.
The spacing feels a tiny bit odd to me but that could also have a lot to do with the fact that I've changed up so many different keyboards over the last little while. After a few moments of typing the layout feels quite nice and I'm not having difficulties touch typing. Very smooth to type on and even flat I'm already starting to enjoy the tiny bit of separation between the keyboard halves.
The arrangement of all of the modifier keys feels a little bit odd for OSX users. For windows it is pretty much completely normal, but for Mac they have reversed the command and option/alt keys. That said I honestly don't care that much as I will remap them in the OS, but it's odd that they would have a dedicated mac/pc switch on the keyboard, and dedicated mac legends printed onto the keycaps, but then not bother to arrange them in the standard Mac type layout. Odd but not really a big deal, to me it makes the Mac part of the switch redundant ... most PC only keyboards work totally fine on Mac with one caveat -- the command/option keys being reversed -- which is exactly how this keyboard is layed out even when you switch it to Mac. I've tried it with the swtich on both settings and can't notice any kind of difference when using it on my Mac!
On another note they have done mostly the same with the F keys/media keys arrangement. It's nothing at all like the Mac one and it's not much like many of the PC layouts I've seen either (all the media playing controls are from F1-F3, Volume from F4-F6). Typically you see them the other way around, with the media control keys on the upper F keys -- but again not a big deal for me as I will just remap them for my needs.
So far so good, I will be using this board for the next little while at the very least so if anything about my opinion changes I will report back, as well as when I start messing with the split and tenting angles.
