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Title: Buffalo Savior?
Post by: eyesnine on Fri, 17 June 2011, 12:14:39

[video=youtube;e3ufnrpFPHQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3ufnrpFPHQ&feature=related[/video]

Has anyone seen this keyboard in person? I came across it on Youtube.

It looks like a very light actuation force. It's hard to tell from a video in another language, though.

Title: Buffalo Savior?
Post by: redpill on Fri, 17 June 2011, 12:22:45

Buffalo Savior...

Dreadlock Rasta...

Title: Buffalo Savior?
Post by: aremizu on Fri, 17 June 2011, 13:58:58

Hello.
I up-loaded this video. :D
Baffalo is a computer peripherals manufacturer in Japan.

SAVIOR is a keyboard of the membrane type, and OEM goods of the Solidyear Co.. (almost the same structure as ACK-230)
http://buffalo-kokuyo.jp/products/input/keyboard/wire/bskbc02/index.html

http://twitpic.com/3k59pu
http://twitpic.com/3k5e00

However, because the membrane seat and the substrate are fixed with the combustion rivet unlike ACK-230,
 it is a key stroke feeling that is better than ACK-230.

This keyboard is not sold excluding JIS array :<.

Title: Buffalo Savior?
Post by: eyesnine on Fri, 17 June 2011, 14:30:57

I see...

Looks a lot like the design of the QuietKey, but with detachable key caps.

The 62g force is a little heavy for me.

Where in the keypress does the actuation occur? At the bottom, or somewhere in the middle? Seems like it would be at the bottom.

It looks like a better than average keyboard. Though, I think I'll stick with Cherry MXs for now.

I don't know why some Chinese company can't copy the Topre keyswitches and start churning them out at half price. It really doesn't seem like an expensive design for a keyswitch. Not at all.

Title: Buffalo Savior?
Post by: aremizu on Fri, 17 June 2011, 16:01:53

The recognition of the key is recognized only by pushing it comparatively lightly.
Moreover, I felt that it was lighter than the Topre 45g though the nominal value was 62g.

I am not using it now so that "A, S, and U" may be pushed to this keyboard simultaneously and there is a fault not recognized then.
I regret the feeling because it is good (It was possible in ACK-230).

Title: Buffalo Savior?
Post by: eyesnine on Fri, 17 June 2011, 18:26:06

Sounds interesting.

If Buffalo can resolve the key conflicts and bring this to the US with a similar price tag (~$42) it could be worth a try.

Title: Buffalo Savior?
Post by: audioave10 on Fri, 17 June 2011, 20:04:45

It seems to have an artificial click without a real tactile response. Is that correct?

Title: Buffalo Savior?
Post by: aremizu on Fri, 17 June 2011, 23:08:39

Yes. This keyboard is a rubber dome type.
However, it has a near feeling considerably mechanically.
It is a feeling that the tactile feeling, and forgets it is a mule dome type.

There is a clear bottoming-out feeling though it is not a click type.

If it is US array version, it has touch that ACK-230 looks alike very much. It thinks worth touching once. XD

Title: Buffalo Savior?
Post by: redpill on Fri, 17 June 2011, 23:11:52

Quote from: aremizu;362736

It thinks worth touching once. XD

That's what they said last time I was at the Chicken Ranch.