I read a lot of this thread awhile ago - prior to buying my own leopold mini. I bought the dye-sub as soon as it went up for sale at elite keyboards. Thankfully, I was in the market when this came around
. I also have a realforce 87U 55 gram.
I bought the leopold primarily for travel and use at work. It is now my favorite keyboard, closely followed by the realforce 55g. This is odd to me, because I find the 45g brown cherry keys to be too light. The leopold feel perfect. Great feel, great sound, great for long typing sessions. It's definitely better than the garbage lenovo keyboard at work.
Sometimes I do miss the separate function keys - primarily if I'm gaming. With one hand on the mouse, pressing a function key becomes far more problematic.
This keyboard has a good weight and does not slip around. It feels very sturdy. Most of the keys are exchangeable with the realforce. The only nitpick is that the delete key is ever so slightly crooked. It doesn't effect typing at all, and it's not a big deal at all. But that's all I can find if I'm trying to give a nitpick in build quality
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Ok, I do have one real complaint. The function and right control pulls up the context menu. I hate this! I'd MUCH rather not ever have the context menu. This should be an option. Perhaps choose which control button would serve as the context, or just turn it off entirely. I like to use the page up/page down/home/end with the control key quite often. If the right control key did not pull up the context menu when using the function key, I could do this one handed.
In the end - this is my daily driver. No buyers remorse in the slightest
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-Tallon