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Title: HHKB Professional 2 Type-S & Accessories(Roof and Keycaps)
Post by: XnikeX on Fri, 21 October 2011, 06:48:01
I have a HHKB Professional 2 Type-S (PD-KB400WS) up for sale.  This is the Type-S version that I believe stands for speed & silence. It is less than 1 week old. I ordered this on Oct 5 and received it last Saturday the 15th.

I ordered the keyboard from smartimports.net for $470, I'm asking for $450 (plus PayPal fees & shipping).  I've only used this keyboard for a couple of days but then boxed it back up because I couldn't adjust to the layout. Having the Ctrl key where the CapsLock used to be is awkward and it's just easier to hit the arrow or navigation keys in one press instead of having to hold down the Fn key.  My typing style is more of a "hands-off keyboard until needed" than a "hovering over home-row" style plus I don't touch type that well.

I have been using a Realforce 87u for awhile and compared to the HHKB, the 87u is definitely louder.  I did notice that with the HHKB Type-S the sound does not vary as much as the 87u when hitting the keys quickly, I guess that is the silence in "Type-S" doing its job.

The keyboard roof, red escape key and lavender keys were bought from elitekeyboards. I'm asking for $50 (plus PayPal fees & shipping).

More photos are available in my photo album(sorry for the large and blurry pics, I took it on my cell phone).

Please PM with offers. Thank you.


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Title: HHKB Professional 2 Type-S & Accessories(Roof and Keycaps)
Post by: hcry4 on Fri, 21 October 2011, 11:37:14
I love this keyboard. GLWS.
Title: HHKB Professional 2 Type-S & Accessories(Roof and Keycaps)
Post by: jrockroll on Fri, 21 October 2011, 13:27:28
Quote from: hcry4;436132
I love this keyboard. GLWS.
I thought u commented to get it :P
Title: HHKB Professional 2 Type-S & Accessories(Roof and Keycaps)
Post by: tsangan on Fri, 21 October 2011, 15:32:49
^ LOL I thought the same thing too, I was going to say hcry4 you already have a blank and a printed already you don't need another one hahaha

I'm tempted to buy this and sell mine ;E
Title: HHKB Professional 2 Type-S & Accessories(Roof and Keycaps)
Post by: delgo on Fri, 21 October 2011, 16:43:10
If they made this in ISO and едц integrated with Fn key...
Could even pass on the ISO part for this board, but the lack of the proper letters едц is unforgivable!
Title: HHKB Professional 2 Type-S & Accessories(Roof and Keycaps)
Post by: gilgam on Sat, 22 October 2011, 05:34:08
You can get them as combo with ansi.

By the way i don't understand how you can buy a 470 $ keyboard and not try it longer than 2 days...
Of course the layout is uncommon but it works fine on Unix and on windows too(on macos i remap the ctrl to command).
You can get caps lock as a key combo.
Title: HHKB Professional 2 Type-S & Accessories(Roof and Keycaps)
Post by: XnikeX on Sat, 22 October 2011, 14:31:08
Quote from: gilgam;436601
You can get them as combo with ansi.

By the way i don't understand how you can buy a 470 $ keyboard and not try it longer than 2 days...
Of course the layout is uncommon but it works fine on Unix and on windows too(on macos i remap the ctrl to command).
You can get caps lock as a key combo.


I have thought of bringing it to work which would force me to adjust to the HHKB layout but to me, it's just more convenient to have the arrow keys in a inverted T layout.  While I can remap the keys for my home computer, the machines I use at work are locked down and I don't have admin rights.
Title: HHKB Professional 2 Type-S & Accessories(Roof and Keycaps)
Post by: gilgam on Sat, 22 October 2011, 16:28:10
Yes this is the real problem, the arrow keys. I got used to them but it's still unusual. Sometimes I wish everything will work as Vim does...

Good luck for your sale ;-)