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Title: Cherry G81-3000LRNUS2 Question/Help
Post by: oddfuture on Mon, 29 November 2010, 18:36:27

I was wondering if anyone had experience with this keyboard and I was wondering what kind of mechanical switch this model uses. I'm assuming they're blue switches, but I could be wrong I just want to get it verified before I place an order and the keyboard layout is it with a fat enter? or standard?

Title: Cherry G81-3000LRNUS2 Question/Help
Post by: woody on Mon, 29 November 2010, 18:49:34

Quote from: oddfuture;254086

I was wondering if anyone had experience with this keyboard and I was wondering what kind of mechanical switch this model uses. I'm assuming they're blue switches, but I could be wrong I just want to get it verified before I place an order and the keyboard layout is it with a fat enter? or standard?

US layout - so should be ENTER in a single row.

But according to a quick Google search, it is membrane. Definitely not MX blue.

Title: Cherry G81-3000LRNUS2 Question/Help
Post by: keyb_gr on Wed, 01 December 2010, 10:27:06

G81s always are MY mechanism boards (linear mechanics over membrane). To most people, they are less enjoyable than bog standard rubber domes.

I always like to say that if Cherry could come up with a better-feeling mechanism (maybe OKI-style), G81s would be quite attractive. With their metal backplate, they give a very solid impression, more so than G80s.