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Title: Which keyboard should I try next*?
Post by: sam113101 on Tue, 21 December 2010, 20:19:25

I already own a unicomp spacesaver and a das with blue cherries. I must say that I THINK, it's really hard to say, that I prefer the buckling spring over the blue cherry. The sound that the das makes annoys me, and I can't say if it's the click or the bottoming out, or both. I can say though, that it's too loud when I'm pressing the space bar (it's always the loudest key).

If I type slowly it's okay, but when I begin to type faster my ears hurt. It almost retain me from typing faster. I want a non-clicky keyboard, also one that has a quiet bottoming out. Thing is, I don't want to go cherry brown and hate it as much as I hate cherry blue. Maybe PCB mounted board with browns would do (they're quieter, aren't they*?). Maybe I should go topre, though I don't want it to feel the same as rubber dome. I like some rubber domes, but they aren't enough snapy, bumpy, there is not enough bump, you know. Also they feel mushy.

So, what board should I buy next*? I'm sound-sensitive, that sucks.

Title: Which keyboard should I try next*?
Post by: kidchunks on Tue, 21 December 2010, 20:51:59

+1 for the scissors.

I used my i-rocks RF-6520 at work for a few weeks before I got my model m and that board was pure quiet even when bottoming out.

Title: Which keyboard should I try next*?
Post by: sam113101 on Tue, 21 December 2010, 20:52:46

I didn't know there was a silent version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QKqXaQw3BM&feature=related
I thought that was some video editing.

Yeah, I like the sound of topre. It's more of a toc than a tack, you know.
Could I hear PCB mounted brown cherries, please*?
And why is the tenkeyless version of the realforce more expensive than the version with the numpad*? It doesn't make sense, the more plastic it has, the more expensive it should cost, no*?

Title: Which keyboard should I try next*?
Post by: kidchunks on Tue, 21 December 2010, 20:58:32

I'd head over to the audio clips section if you haven't.

The whole tenkeyless price increase doesn't make sense to me either. I just blame the SC2 players. :tongue:

Title: Which keyboard should I try next*?
Post by: sam113101 on Tue, 21 December 2010, 21:29:41

In the end, I'm going to buy both (realforce and filco), sure of this.
Why did EK stop to sell filco keyboards*? I don't like leopold's round edges and right-into-key LEDs.
I remap backspace to caps lock and caps lock to backspace, that's going to be weird.

Title: Which keyboard should I try next*?
Post by: msiegel on Tue, 21 December 2010, 21:37:43

:)
just out of curiosity sam, how come each question mark in your posts has an asterisk before it*?


*as if there were some "fine print" that goes with the question

Title: Which keyboard should I try next*?
Post by: sam113101 on Tue, 21 December 2010, 21:41:59

In french you have to put a non-breaking space before every ?, though in english it is not needed. I don't want to lose my habits, so I keep doing it even if I write in english (I write in french most of the time). Geekhack seems to be printing non-breaking spaces as *.

Title: Which keyboard should I try next*?
Post by: msiegel on Tue, 21 December 2010, 21:44:16

ohh! thank you, i learned something new about french today :D

Title: Which keyboard should I try next*?
Post by: sam113101 on Tue, 21 December 2010, 22:08:54

That's not the only place where you have to put non-breaking spaces.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espace_ins%C3%A9cable
I suggest you to translate it rather than click english at left (otherwise you won't read anything specific to french).
I'm kind of picky, non-breaking spaces are optional but I use them anyway, just for the fun of doing it right.