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Title: Cherry switch variants in Germany
Post by: godly_music on Wed, 20 October 2010, 00:19:39

Howdy,

As I understand it, you get Black (linear), Blue (tactile click) and Clear (tactile non-click). Are there Browns anywhere in the local G80-3000 lineup? Yea, I mailed Cherry but I'm not convinced they know their products too well. The data sheet has holes in it, even variants you get in retail here are not all listed.

I've already excluded the gamer keyboards pretty much. Raptor K1 is a rebrand with markup, SteelSeries has bad caps and the Das Keyboard costs a whopping 140€/200$ here. A G80-3000 on the other hand is only 44€.

Title: Cherry switch variants in Germany
Post by: LawnJesus on Wed, 20 October 2010, 00:29:47

What about FILCO keyboards? They're moderately priced for a brand new one in the US at around 130 dollars for the full NKRO model (and they're supposedly difficult to acquire in the US).

Title: Cherry switch variants in Germany
Post by: godly_music on Wed, 20 October 2010, 00:33:27

They are pretty nice, but cost 140€ here too. Notice a pattern with pricing? The few shops that have US brands here don't bother with any currency conversion, they just take the dollar price and put a € next to it. Brutal.

Title: Cherry switch variants in Germany
Post by: zmurf on Wed, 20 October 2010, 01:56:29

The only places where I've been able to find Cherry G80-3000 keyboards with brown switches ( Cherry G80-3000LXC ) is here:
http://product.pcpop.com/000108009/Index.html
and here:
http://detail.zol.com.cn/keyboard/index200600.shtml

And no... non of those pages is in German...


I also choose a Cherry keyboard because they where cheaper... I went with a G80-3000LQCDE-2 (MX White, German layout (Pretty close to the Swedish layout), black case). Since I also bought a Lenovo USB Trackpoint keyboard for ~70€ and were going to drill in my mechanical keyboard I didn't want to spend to much money on it. If I were to spend anything near 140€ on a keyboard I would shovel in an extra 30€-40€ and get a Realforce with variable force instead.

Title: Cherry switch variants in Germany
Post by: godly_music on Wed, 20 October 2010, 02:59:49

Thanks for the links. 820 yuan is about 90€.

I think I'll be bold and go for Cherry Blacks.

Title: Cherry switch variants in Germany
Post by: sixty on Wed, 20 October 2010, 08:31:24

Note that brown switches have never been a part of Cherry's normal lineup. The G80-3000s sold with browns were special orders. You can tell by the X in the product number. If you are just looking to test Cherry Black switches, I still have a literal truck load full of G80-1800s with blacks. PM me if interested.