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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: akerasi on Tue, 06 September 2011, 23:40:03
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Been using my Cherry ML board quite a bit, since I've been travelling about a lot, and it's at the least far nicer than my laptop board. I can usually avoid bottoming out the keys, but that's pretty hard with the low key travel on an ML board. Did a Ripometer HD test, it seems to actuate at 47.5gm consistently, using the F key for testing. All in all, a really nice thing to be able to throw in my bag while carting my laptop a million places. The position of the tilde key is a little weird, but understandable as it saved them some space to make this thing as tiny as it is. It's actually a little smaller than my laptop's actual keyboard, but the keyfeel is far better than the scissor switches on that board. The other layout complaint I have is that the space bar is just too small. I really would prefer to give up the 2nd windows key for that much longer of a spacebar. Luckily for me, I almost exclusively type space with my left thumb, and it's in the right place for that.
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Get the 83-key version (G84-4100 xxAxx), it has normal spacebar. The tilde and Del require somewhat more dedication to master.
Pics of the 83-key here (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?11492-G84-4100lpaeu-0).
Bonus points for the bot that somehow edited my posts at a certain point in time to add spamware!
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The problem is, I do want a windows key. I wish there was a version that had 1 win key, not 2 or 0.
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Map the right ALT of 83-key version as Windows key.
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Just recently I bought a DE-Layout G84-4100 too, and I can totally agree with this review. It's a great keyboard to carry around, but some of the keys are placed weird. I don't know why, but I keep missing the backspace key, and the DEL key is located somewhere totally different. Anyway, I'm getting used to it, so it isn't a too big disadvantage.
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