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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: shortround on Sun, 13 February 2011, 22:04:53

Title: Black Tactile Pro 3 back-lit?
Post by: shortround on Sun, 13 February 2011, 22:04:53

Forgive me if anybody has brought this up already, my quick half-arsed attempts to search yielded nothing.  

I recently wrote to Matias keyboards to ask if they'll offer the Tactile Pro 3 in anything other than white.  I received a very quick response from them telling me that a black back-lit version MAY be in the works for the future.  I for one would be very interested in one.  If you like the thought, maybe write to Matias to show support so that this thing can go into production.  

What would your thoughts be on it?

Title: Black Tactile Pro 3 back-lit?
Post by: Pylon on Mon, 14 February 2011, 18:04:27

That'll be hard unless they switch to Cherry MX. Alps switches are rather large and you can't fit an LED (unless it's SMD or something) easily under standard sized keycaps.