I have four, all of them neatly shelved, two each stacked, below two monitors. They're each slightly different:
- Matias Tactile Pro (http://www.matias.ca/tactilepro/) - awesome and tactile, really groovy when I want to bash away loudly. The Mac-specific keycaps are wonderful when I need a quick alternative character and I can't remember the key combo;
- Unicomp (https://www.pckeyboard.com) Spacesaver M - great keyboard for data entry (don't like it as well for typing long stretches). I take it out when my fingers crave awesome, as long as it's not for too long;
- Azio MK Mac USB (https://aziocorp.com/collections/keyboard) - for working in the dark—my only backlit keyboard, and oddly satisfying, even though the Kailh browns it comes with aren't tactile, in spite of the claims; and
- Matias Quiet Pro (http://matias.ca/quietpro/) - marketed as analogous to the old Apple Extended Keyboard II—it isn't anything like those old keyboards as I remember, but it's fabulous and best of all, very quiet. I use it when I'm on conference calls.
Do you find the dampened tactiles to be scratchy at all?\
thats literally me... im testing my custom keyboard [cyberboard] and have a normal keyboard to make comparisons
Quote from: MaledictedThe AEK II could come with wildly different switches (including even Mitsumi switches) depending on country of origin, date of manufacture, etc. I think Matias was probably targetting the SKCM cream damped switches, specifically, when creating their dampened tactile switches.
Do you find the dampened tactiles to be scratchy at all? I have found some boards with them that feel relatively smooth, and some that feel scratchy (mostly newer ones, including brand new). There's the obvious thing with wear, but it seems to be more than that. I'm starting to wonder if the reason may be that the older ones literally had many slightly different components. I swapped clicky guts into a mini pro just this weekend and I noticed that the gray sliders were a different shade from the latest production dampened tactile sliders (maybe just yellowing with age a bit), the contact leaves were made of a different material and/or had a different finish, and that even the springs had a different finish. The modern clickies and linears are as smooth as glass, and the same sliders feel smooth with the clicky leaves. The tactile leaves feel smooth with the undampened sliders. It is weird as heck.
I'm sure they must have been targeting the cream damped switches, but they really failed miserably, in my opinion. They made a decent switch, and I enjoy them on their own, but they're kind of crappy when you compare them to a real cream damped switch in an AEK II. I've owned quite a few AEK IIs over the years, including a brand new one back in 1990, and I've been lucky to have never had a switch get scratchy.
I don't ever keep two keyboards on my desk, but I often have two keyboards at my desk. Sometimes I can't decide if I want to use a Topre or a Cherry board, so I have a couple of options. I'm sure my coworkers think I'm nuts for constantly swapping keyboards. I used to use an AEK II with an iMate at work, but now I sit by a window, and I don't want my last remaining AEK II to yellow more than it has.
I do but not for any real reason. I just get lazy when I'm switching them out to test something or I get a new keyboard. Like right now, this is my desk.Show Image(https://i.imgur.com/3gzcNGL.jpg)
For those following along, that's my cheap space saving keyboard underneath the XT. I was using that a while back just to play with it as a spacesaver since I discovered that I like the XT layout. I then went back to the XT with the international keycaps, and I just got my AT that I overpaid for back in the mail after the guy who sold it to me fixed the spacebar so I'm making sure everything is okay on it still.
But this isn't normal, per say. I usually just run a rotation of a Model M and a Matias, though I've become a bit numbed to the ear cancer that is Models F lately, so I might drop the Model M from the rotation and go to XT -> Matias back and forth. I keep them in boxes in the closet.
I have a JJ40 with blank keycaps. This proved to be a handful for almost everyone else trying to use my machine.Ha!
So I keep a full sized Wooting Two close by for those that need a more regular means of entering text.
I love having 2 on deck! I use the tada68 with gat silent inks for work and coding, and the corsair with low profile cherry reds for games. I'm even thinking of making a left-half-only quefrency or similar with lightweight switches for FPS games to give my mouse more room for movement...
The number row will also be metal, eventually.
The number row will also be metal, eventually.
Is the Razer mouse near its keyboard rival intentional?
I haven't regularly run two keyboards since I stopped ripping apart computers for work or a hobby, so when I did have two boards, one was usually draped over the open computer chassis.
What's the chassis in the second image? Front mounted power supplies suggests back-to-front airflow, which is unusual, especially as there looks like an optical media bay at the front as well. I guess it might actually be nicer to stand at the exhaust end of a server though if you're wo rking in a frigid datacentre.Good eye! It wasn’t a server blade, just a rack mount PC. It’s the brains for a machine that fabricates carbon nanotubes and other nanocarbon materials. Really just a fancy printer, haha.
Is the Razer mouse near its keyboard rival intentional?
I used to, but I recently added a USB switch to my desk so I can easily flip peripherals between devices. It's an absolute game changer.
The number row will also be metal, eventually.
How's that metal to type on? I've always thought it would be rather cold and harsh on the fingers.
The number row will also be metal, eventually.
Is the Razer mouse near its keyboard rival intentional?
Those metal keys look gnarly! Where'd you get them?
And yep, I like being a walking contradiction of brand wars. Lol, I just chose the Razer mouse because it feels best in my hand, plain and simple. It's about the only Razer peripheral I like...not a fan of their keyboards, but man do their mice fit my hand well. And the Mamba wireless is very lightweight, and was on sale for $45 at Walmart recently.
Is the Razer mouse near its keyboard rival intentional?
I had a Razer Deathadder for almost 6 years that sat beside my Corsair board for the last 3 lol, I never really thought about it until I read this. Now that I have Corsair RAM and a Corsair mouse, it's only fitting that I'm getting rid of my keyboard, right? 🙃