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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: didjamatic on Sun, 27 June 2010, 23:04:30

Title: Interesting Listing - Apple Extended II?
Post by: didjamatic on Sun, 27 June 2010, 23:04:30

Interesting listing here (http://cgi.ebay.com/QTRONIX-SCORPIUS-105ADB-KEYBOARD-MACINTOSH-/260623666780#ht_876wt_768)

Qtronix Box
"Rubber Mechanical" - This is technically correct if it's an AEKII w/Dampened ALPS
Apple Extended II or similar inside

Someone probably bought the Qtronix to replace the Apple keyboard, then put the Apple one in the box.  Then later someone found it this way and is selling it.

Title: Interesting Listing - Apple Extended II?
Post by: TexasFlood on Sun, 27 June 2010, 23:26:15

Quote from: didjamatic;197065

Interesting listing here (http://cgi.ebay.com/QTRONIX-SCORPIUS-105ADB-KEYBOARD-MACINTOSH-/260623666780#ht_876wt_768)

Qtronix Box
"Rubber Mechanical" - This is technically correct if it's an AEKII w/Dampened ALPS
Apple Extended II or similar inside

Someone probably bought the Qtronix to replace the Apple keyboard, then put the Apple one in the box.  Then later someone found it this way and is selling it.

Sure looks like an Apple Extended Keyboard II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Extended_Keyboard) in a Qtronix Scorpius 105ADB box.  Supposed to a be a classic amongst Mac users, if it's the one with alps switches, it was never clear to me which alps switches they had.

Title: Interesting Listing - Apple Extended II?
Post by: chimera15 on Mon, 28 June 2010, 02:29:52

Yeah, it looks like an aek 2 in a scorpius box.  It's pretty interesting they do almost look identical except for the little notch out of the upper left of the keyboard where the adb plug goes.  I just picked one up off ebay for $20 as well, so they're going cheap.  I really love modifying these switches with clicky leafs.  I think it's the best kind of alps switch, it's light, with a relatively soft landing if you bottom out, and you get the click.

Title: Interesting Listing - Apple Extended II?
Post by: spolia optima on Mon, 28 June 2010, 03:28:09

Quote from: ripster;197081

I'm pretty sure if it's a AEKII it's gonna be a Complicated White NonClicky Rubber Dampened ALPS.  
[IG]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4097/4741814974_877bb25afd_z.jpg[/IMG]

IMHO Apple was consistent in using the best ALPS switches. Orange, pink, dampened cream... They really did rock.

My Dell AT101 feels like, shoot, 200% better with dampened creams.

Title: Interesting Listing - Apple Extended II?
Post by: mr_a500 on Mon, 28 June 2010, 08:57:12

Quote from: TexasFlood;197068

Sure looks like an Apple Extended Keyboard II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Extended_Keyboard) in a Qtronix Scorpius 105ADB box.  Supposed to a be a classic amongst Mac users, if it's the one with alps switches, it was never clear to me which alps switches they had.

It's the original Apple Extended Keyboard that's the classic. The AEK II is the cost cutting version. It feels like crap compared to the original.

Title: Interesting Listing - Apple Extended II?
Post by: ch_123 on Mon, 28 June 2010, 09:40:10

They're really mediocre keyboards. I have no idea what the original AEK was like, but the AEK II is like a Mac equivalent of the Dell AT101W... in more ways than one.