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White alps: dissembly and attempted silencing
Chloe:
--- Quote from: wellington1869;15287 ---yours is white alps switch too? (not strongmans?) Interesting that white alps would have 2 diff leafs. Cant help but wonder how that translates to sound and feel between them. (probably not much diff tho).
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They're real ALPS, not simplified. I haven't desoldered one yet to check for gold plating, but they have the little slits in the upper casing mentioned here:
http://sandy55.fc2web.com/keyboard/alps_sw/upper_case4.jpg
Chloe:
--- Quote from: wellington1869;15287 ---yours is white alps switch too? (not strongmans?) Interesting that white alps would have 2 diff leafs. Cant help but wonder how that translates to sound and feel between them. (probably not much diff tho).
--- End quote ---
I think they're simplified ALPS. They have the little slits in the upper casing mentioned here, but internally they look like the simplified white ALPS in this thread:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=cn&u=http://forum.talkdigi.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=19
Chloe:
--- Quote from: wellington1869;15287 ---yours is white alps switch too? (not strongmans?) Interesting that white alps would have 2 diff leafs. Cant help but wonder how that translates to sound and feel between them. (probably not much diff tho).
--- End quote ---
They're real ALPS. They have the little slits in the upper casing mentioned here, and internally they look like the white ALPS in this thread:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=cn&u=http://forum.talkdigi.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=19
alpslover:
wellington, those switches in your mk96 do not appear to be real alps switches. not only do the internals seem to be the 'simplified' version (blurry pics), but the switches don't look like they have the 'alps' stamp on them.
some of my focus 2001's have these fake alps switches. they're very loud and very tactile, but i find my 2001's with real alps switches to have a smoother action and as a result i type a bit faster on them.
wellington1869:
--- Quote from: alpslover;15305 ---wellington, those switches in your mk96 do not appear to be real alps switches. not only do the internals seem to be the 'simplified' version (blurry pics), but the switches don't look like they have the 'alps' stamp on them.
some of my focus 2001's have these fake alps switches. they're very loud and very tactile, but i find my 2001's with real alps switches to have a smoother action and as a result i type a bit faster on them.
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Well this conversation about whether mk96 has "real alps" has come up before, I was going by XS's comparison of them with the real alps (stamped alps) in one of his other boards, where he said he could not find any difference in sound or feel. The general conclusion was that that mk96, even tho its not stamped, is most likely alps and not strongman or other. I believe the general consensus was that not all real alps were stamped with 'alps.' Feel free to discuss that here, I'd love to know as well, but side by side comparisons by a few people on geekhack seem to back that up.
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