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Offline billm

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small, black, clicky, mac
« on: Tue, 13 January 2009, 15:34:49 »
Hi Guys-

That's basically what I'm looking for. A black, 10 keyless board with clicky keys. My main board is currently a Deck 82 key that's 12" wide. With a little work I managed to get the tilde/command keys mapped correctly, and I've been pretty happy with it for the last couple of years, but I am tiring of the cherry black linear switches and high keys. Right now I'm typing on an old Micro Connectors board with clicky Alps keys and, apart from the number pad being in the way, I'm loving it.

I'm looking at the following boards:

Happy Hacking Keyboard Pro 2:

Pros:

Small
Black
Clicky

Cons:
$$$$
Seriously the price is beyond absurd.

Filco 10 Keyless:

Pros:
Small(ish)
Black
Clicky

Cons:
Maybe I'd prefer cherry blues?
Still a little wide for my tastes

Deck 82 Key (what I currently have):

Pros:
nice size, cool looking with the red led back lights

Cons:
Needs a bit of tweaking to get it mac  compatible
Black Linear switches are tiring
Have to buy and extra black casing to get it to look even remotely professional and not like something a 12 yr old game pimp would use.

DSI Modular Mac Keyboard

Pros:
Mac compatible
Perfect layout
Clicky

Cons:
White
Maybe I can dye it black??

SMK88

Pros:
Even better layout

Cons:
Which switches? Blue, Black, Brown, Alps? It's unclear to me
Also white, would need to be dyed

So my question for you all is, am I missing any boards that I should be looking at?

Thanks
If it's not ALPS it's crap!

Offline wellington1869

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« Reply #1 on: Tue, 13 January 2009, 15:42:13 »
if you're still considering cherries, dsi's modular mac comes with choice of browns or blues. You can get it in black when they come out with the "modular PC" in a couple of months (it will be black).

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Offline zwmalone

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« Reply #2 on: Tue, 13 January 2009, 16:49:41 »
You could try to get the older model SMK-85 (they were black)  OR if you don't mind silver you can get one from their eBay store for $45.
Can't get enough of them ALPS