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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: colorcutclarity on Tue, 08 March 2011, 00:06:18
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How are they? I've seen a couple of them such as the ML-G3000's which look pretty nice but can't find any reviews on them at all.
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=5263433376
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Wasn't PLU another "started as a forum project but went horribly wrong" thinbg like the Ducky?
At 470 yuan (=72 USD or so) it may be a decent value, but the specs are the real story.
* NKRO? Controller? (is it a transposition mess?)
* Build quality? The case is clearly not the Filco-Rosewill-ABS-Leopold case type, and I can't imagine the lit panel shown in the picture appealing to non-Chinese speakers.
* Versions available? I see another version with Blacks and less media-key functionality, the impossibly hideous ML-G2000. I also note, if you go to the shop.plu.cn site and follow its links back to Taobao, there are some tenkeyless versions in white and black, but my Chinese is nonexistent, so I won't say more.
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Yeah those are some of the questions I had and thought someone might have had the answers. There's no video or text reviews surrounding the keyboard at all :/
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plum is an established manufacturer.
They made the ducky special edition and the noppoo.
of course those were also flavor of the month asian keyboards. (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?p=303196#post303196)
plu != plum
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Are there any reviews of them? I don't see any in the reviews section. I just want to see someone commenting on build quality etc.
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I've owned a PLU ML-87 (Tenkeyless, Filco look-a-like) in White. The keyboard, aesthetically, appears to be exactly the same as the Filco. There are some major differences between the two, however. Overall, I think the PLU ML-87 is a great keyboard, but there are some things about it that may bother you.
At a high level, the board looks exactly like a Filco, but isn't at all. It's lighter and doesn't have that brushed aluminum casing feel. The spacebar, backspace and enter keys have a rattle to them (the stabilizers felt a bit off). But I think at the end of the day, most people were most upset about the 2KRO.
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I've owned a PLU ML-87 (Tenkeyless, Filco look-a-like) in White. The keyboard, aesthetically, appears to be exactly the same as the Filco. There are some major differences between the two, however. Overall, I think the PLU ML-87 is a great keyboard, but there are some things about it that may bother you.
At a high level, the board looks exactly like a Filco, but isn't at all. It's lighter and doesn't have that brushed aluminum casing feel. The spacebar, backspace and enter keys have a rattle to them (the stabilizers felt a bit off). But I think at the end of the day, most people were most upset about the 2KRO.
I love my PLU ML-87, but I will admit that my Noppoo is my main.
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I've owned a PLU ML-87 (Tenkeyless, Filco look-a-like) in White. The keyboard, aesthetically, appears to be exactly the same as the Filco. There are some major differences between the two, however. Overall, I think the PLU ML-87 is a great keyboard, but there are some things about it that may bother you.
At a high level, the board looks exactly like a Filco, but isn't at all. It's lighter and doesn't have that brushed aluminum casing feel. The spacebar, backspace and enter keys have a rattle to them (the stabilizers felt a bit off). But I think at the end of the day, most people were most upset about the 2KRO.
Thanks for the insight. If that's the case then I am no longer interested in seeing reviews as I'm not a fan of 2KRO.