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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Nonmouse on Fri, 10 January 2020, 22:07:54
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Anybody recognize these switches? From a $28 "Backlit Gaming Mechanical Keyboard Colorful 10 LED light mode USB Wired Game Keyboard 26 Keys Anti-ghosting Free Hand Care" on WishDotCom.
(https://contestimg.wish.com/api/webimage/5e003e1051eb5800295c5afc-6-large?cozy=1)
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Looks like Outemu blue, probably? It would help if they didn't take that closeup with the first digital camera ever made and/or zoomed in to 500x.
Those seem to be in most of the bargain bin priced boards. I can't say for sure whether or not I have ever even typed on any before. I don't tend to be too interested in checking which Chinese knockoff Cherries happen to be in a board myself.
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Beware that many of those really cheap backlit boards don't have RGB LEDs but just a different colour on each row.
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Beware that many of those really cheap backlit boards don't have RGB LEDs but just a different colour on each row.
Yeah, good call on that. The picture does seem to suggest it. The title doesn't suggest that it is RGB though. I think they finally got tired of people complaining about it. Why they thought they could not only market and sell rainbow keyboards, but even claim that they are RGB is beyond me.
For that price, if that plate's aluminum like it appears, I still wouldn't mind buying the board just to gut and put whatever leds and switches in it I like. I imagine any knockoff Cherry is good enough as is though.
That "Free Hand Care" sounds humorously suggestive. I imagine that wasn't the intention.
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Who doesn't want Free Hand Care? The manufacturers have really put time and effort into making a hand massager into the keyboard, and you make fun of their innovation! How dare you! ;D