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Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: Zet on Mon, 30 May 2011, 14:12:57: I'm so exited, I just got my first mechanical keyboard delivered to me.
It's a Filco Majestouch 2 Limited Edition with Red MX Cherry Switches.

I'll proceed to upload some pictures of it and my gf enjoying it, after I resize them, since I have a sucky inet connection, uploading the full sized pics would take till x-mass...

So far, I'm amazed by how light the key feels when I type on them, and I love the sounds of bottoming out, but I really want to try to get better and stop doing that.

On a small note, I'll say that the red keycaps that it comes with, for WASD, are a different profile than the normal ones, I would say between one to two mm higher, thats why I put the black ones back and changed the arrows.

I must now go back to my office, I'm an hour late already xD

Edit:
Like I mentioned before, my damned ISP decided to take a break last night and I wasn't able to upload a thing.

So now, here it is :)

My future wife holding and giving the devilish smile, thinking what will she do to her new addiction competition in my life.
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/254986_10150645756225553_795910552_18903790_1032447_n.jpg)

Yeah, she decided she's going to get rid of it bitting the **** out of it, grrrr
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/253781_10150645756100553_795910552_18903786_1552456_n.jpg)

Still trying and trying, but the build quality is pretty good ^^
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/253091_10150645755935553_795910552_18903783_2130832_n.jpg)
(and yeah the house is very old lol)

So now me trying to check if we can get a scratch on it, without any success...
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/247691_10150645751805553_795910552_18903733_3179609_n.jpg)
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: sndstrm on Mon, 30 May 2011, 14:18:20: Welcome to the club brother! The reds give you a lot more control than other keys. The longer you have the better you will get at not bottoming out. Its like learning to drive a manual transmission, your shifting gets smoother with time. The Linear R is my favorite keyboard so far.
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: dannyp on Mon, 30 May 2011, 14:25:04: Quote from: Zet;353274
I'm so exited, I just got my first mechanical keyboard delivered to me.
It's a Filco Majestouch 2 Limited Edition with Red MX Cherry Switches.

I'll proceed to upload some pictures of it and my gf enjoying it, after I resize them, since I have a sucky inet connection, uploading the full sized pics would take till x-mass...

So far, I'm amazed by how light the key feels when I type on them, and I love the sounds of bottoming out, but I really want to try to get better and stop doing that.

I just highlighted some of the better words in your post, I hope I'm that excited when I receive my first big one!
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: noodles256 on Mon, 30 May 2011, 14:32:44: congrats! glad you finally got it
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: eot on Mon, 30 May 2011, 16:06:04: Grats man :)
My first one also arrived today.

I wasn't blown away by it at first, but I like it more and more. By next week I'll probably be a member of the church!
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: SecrtAgentMan on Mon, 30 May 2011, 18:24:16: And thus the addiction has started.
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: Bucky on Mon, 30 May 2011, 19:22:15: The addiction hits fast and hard. Like the day after mine arrived I started considering what I would like to get next.
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: Bilbin on Mon, 30 May 2011, 19:28:48: I actually am looking for a job now, thanks to keyboards I can start doing something with my life like working towards purchasing green keyswitches and a soldering iron.
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: spolia optima on Mon, 30 May 2011, 19:32:29: Bolivia Rules!
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: keyboardlover on Mon, 30 May 2011, 20:56:58: @OP: Congrats, that is a great board =)
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: daerid on Mon, 30 May 2011, 20:59:04: Awesome dude! I got that board, and it rocks. And yeah, it's one hell of an addiction.
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: Tony on Mon, 30 May 2011, 21:04:30: Congratulations! If you can touch type, this is a good time to hone your typing skills to the highest degree.
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: Hydroid on Mon, 30 May 2011, 21:18:42: Congrats! I'm looking forward to joining into the world of mechanical keyboard collection by addiction soon too. :P
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: keyboardlover on Mon, 30 May 2011, 21:32:50: P.S., Pics of your gf typing on it or it didn't happen ;)
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: agor on Tue, 31 May 2011, 05:38:40: Yeah, waiting for b....
Oh wait, I didn't say that.
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: Zet on Tue, 31 May 2011, 06:47:57: uploading the pictures now, yeah, bolivian ISP's are such a failure that their total uptime for internet service is often confused with the downtime.
Don't you ever dare to count on "Limitless access to the internet"
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: Zet on Tue, 31 May 2011, 07:31:21: Okey, now the pictures are up ^^ and please be manner about them :P
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: keyboardlover on Tue, 31 May 2011, 07:56:54: Great pics. Keyboard eating fetish ftw!

P.s. I don't think we have many South American members. Welcome!
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: Zet on Tue, 31 May 2011, 08:11:05: Thanks man, and yeah, I don't know any keyboard fans around... But I guess someone else must be here...
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: chongyixiong on Tue, 31 May 2011, 08:19:04: Nice, saw the photos on Facebook!

Congrats on the purchase! And the model is pretty too :D
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: Zet on Tue, 31 May 2011, 08:22:04: :x facebook :x

thanks chongyixiong and yeah, I'm loving my keyboard, and like you guys said earlier, I'm already aiming into my next one, after tasting the change from rubber domes, I really would love to have at least one of each switches, so I plan to save as much cash as I can until xmass to get one with blue or brown switches, probably a tenkeyless for portability, carrying this big boy around and my netbook is heavy!
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: eot on Tue, 31 May 2011, 08:38:52: Did you notice any change in typing accuracy (positive or negative)?
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: Zet on Tue, 31 May 2011, 10:32:49: Well I can't reply to that, since this is a major change for me, since I'm used to my Spanish 105 key layout keyboard before, so now I'm getting used to the 104 key US layout. But I think I'm doing fine. Also, since tonight I'll try switching layouts to either Colemak or Dvorak, I'm still thinking about it.

But the key press feels amazing, I love the sound to bottom out, but I want to train myself to avoid doing it.
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: MasterBlaster on Tue, 31 May 2011, 10:36:26: how is sc ? :) with my das i notices it s easyer and definitly more confortable playing but i cant go as far as to say that my APM incresed(well maybe it did , but just about 5 :P) To bad no wristpad , arrrrrr....
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: sndstrm on Tue, 31 May 2011, 10:38:34: Nice pics man. Now you know why AFK is a curse word!
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: Zet on Tue, 31 May 2011, 10:59:53: About my APM on sc2, I did noticed that it's way easier for me to get higher APM with this keyboard than instead of my older rubber dome.

Let me explain what I meant there.
I don't have any particular great APM really, my avg is around 80, I go as slow as 40 sometimes and jump to near 200 others, but some games I focus on trying to play faster, then with my rubber dome I used to have an average of 100 or around, this involves many unnecessary clicking, and also faster tapping, then I did a test and played the same way, focusing on playing faster and easily got near 150 and doing less clicking and more tapping.

Thats my personal experience and opinion, it might not be the same for others.
Mainly the problem I face when I play sc2, is that since I'm not confident enough on my skills playing, I get nervous many times(yeah lack of practice) and my hands and feet get REALLY COLD, and all the warm blood rushes to my head. So once my hands get cold, they loose force, and this affects my performance on the rubber dome keyboard, but on the light red switches I can play without any effort. Perhaps someone else here experiences the same.

Now about my fiance, yeah, I love her very much and she is very supportive to me, and my keyboardmania lol. We are getting married on October or November probably :)
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: Ghostpixel on Tue, 31 May 2011, 11:14:44: About cold hands, its not a coincident that pro korea players in tournaments are using those sacks with something hot in them before matches to warm up their hands :) Anyone here on geekhack use them when typing? Grats on a nice keyboard btw :)
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: Zet on Tue, 31 May 2011, 11:20:38: Quote from: Ghostpixel;353667
About cold hands, its not a coincident that pro korea players in tournaments are using those sacks with something hot in them before matches to warm up their hands :) Anyone here on geekhack use them when typing? Grats on a nice keyboard btw :)

Thanks man, and yeah, well my room is quite warm, there's no cold weather around here even tho~ it is winter... 20C or around atm here. I'm usually with a big jacket on, and a scarf lol, and still happens... I think what I need urgently is to get more practice to gain confidence... ^^
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: foliolio on Tue, 31 May 2011, 11:26:14: Is it just me or why am I not seeing any photos?`

*It's probably just me. Coat, door.
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: daerid on Tue, 31 May 2011, 11:50:40: For reals Zet. Nice catch, the gf is a looker :)
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: dannyp on Tue, 31 May 2011, 11:55:59: ohh ripster now that's just bm.
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: keyboardlover on Tue, 31 May 2011, 12:51:41: Zet, congrats on your engagement. Looks like you bagged two great babes!
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: Wibox on Tue, 31 May 2011, 12:53:32: Quote from: keyboardlover;353487
P.S., Pics of your gf typing on it or it didn't happen ;)

Still waiting on this.
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: Zet on Tue, 31 May 2011, 19:58:41: Quote from: Wibox;353716
Still waiting on this.

pics of her typing on it? or pics of her, lol, the pics of ther got added on the first post FYI.
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: yjhuoh on Tue, 31 May 2011, 20:09:49: Quote from: Wibox;353716
Still waiting on this.

+1
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: daerid on Tue, 31 May 2011, 20:18:23: Pics of her typing on it.
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: Zet on Tue, 31 May 2011, 23:55:34: Going back a little more into the topic, after some more games I did noted, that my APM has raised some, it becomes a lot easier to do mass tapping and before, when I was massive tapping and boxing, trying to get my apm higher, I would go for around 300ish, but now I can easily get to 500, anyways, this apm is pointless since I'm not really doing something with it, but its just a note.

I do really need/want to get my avg APM to 100 at least. It's been so long since the last time I played frequently... dang, working so hard is not good, not much time left to game :(
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: ficklampa on Wed, 01 June 2011, 20:35:18: Quote from: ripster;353656
Your fiance is HAWTer than a Cloud of Boobs Keyboard!
Show Image
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/254986_10150645756225553_795910552_18903790_1032447_n.jpg)

What? Is there a keyboard in the picture?
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: Zet on Sat, 04 June 2011, 14:39:48: Well, I come back after 5 days of using it.
I noticeably have learned not to smack down the keys while typing, I bottom out a lot less, and I can't love more the light feel on the keys. When I try typing on other keyboard, even my Asus netbook feels so much harder to press... It just feels so good... it makes me wonder if it's worth it to get another keyboard with different switches.

I like the sounds of the keycaps when I bottom out, I really do, and this is what brings to my mind, it would be so nice to have a keyboard with the clicky sound of blues. But I wonder if I'll stand the change from the light reds to harder blues...

My next keyboard will probably be the DAS Ultimate, without lettering. And to deal with the glossy end, I'll get some special vinyls stickers to put on top of it and avoid scratchs.
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: sam113101 on Sat, 04 June 2011, 15:36:14: Red escape key in pooper. No?
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: nhwhaup on Sat, 04 June 2011, 15:37:23: Love the reds. If you don't like the bottoming out that happens once in awhile try the Elitekeyboards sound dampening pads. Definitely give a soft and quiet landing.
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: Lester on Sat, 04 June 2011, 17:10:53: Im jelly :D
Title: My First Mechanical Keyboard has arrived!!!
Post by: keyboardlover on Sat, 04 June 2011, 17:29:02: Quote from: sam113101;355634
Red escape key in pooper. No?

Keycap fetish play? Great idea!