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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: leotnnz on Sat, 22 October 2011, 14:08:13

Title: Thermaltake Meka
Post by: leotnnz on Sat, 22 October 2011, 14:08:13

i am finding a tkl kb with numpad. tt meka seems the only choice for me, while i rocks 6230 discontinues.

i know tt meka g1 is from CST. which factory is this meka coming from? cst either?

and anyone owns this and any comments?

thx

Title: Thermaltake Meka
Post by: leotnnz on Sat, 22 October 2011, 14:15:15

Quote from: ripster;436831

I'm still working on all the acronyms.

oops. the dude, what is the TKL?

Title: Thermaltake Meka
Post by: fantus on Sat, 22 October 2011, 14:30:55

Doesn't Ten Key Less mean no numberpad?

Title: Thermaltake Meka
Post by: laffindude on Sat, 22 October 2011, 14:36:38

Tenkeyless with numpad is indeed a oxymoron ;o
Not sure who's the OEM, but it is not Costar since it is made in China.
Cherry stabilizers, 6kro over USB, small backspace and BIG enter, / ? key in absurd location, construction looks cheap.
This board will definitely drive me nuts if I had to type on it. No thanks.

Some disassembled picture http://www.iqmore.idv.tw/tt-esports-meka-mechanical-gaming-keyboard-review/2

Title: Thermaltake Meka
Post by: insilica on Sat, 22 October 2011, 14:38:36

Quote from: leotnnz;436829

i am finding a tkl kb with numpad. tt meka seems the only choice for me, while i rocks 6230 discontinues.

i know tt meka g1 is from CST. which factory is this meka coming from? cst either?

and anyone owns this and any comments?

thx

Confused! I guess I need to spend some more time here :)

Title: Thermaltake Meka
Post by: ssshjp on Sat, 22 October 2011, 14:59:42

Tenkeyless keyboard with numpad? That's a little confusing.

Do you mean 80% size with numpad

Title: Thermaltake Meka
Post by: leotnnz on Sat, 22 October 2011, 15:05:52

Quote from: ssshjp;436854

Tenkeyless keyboard with numpad? That's a little confusing.

Do you mean 80% size with numpad

oh, yeah. 80%with numpad is what i mean. sorry for misleading.

Title: Thermaltake Meka
Post by: pitashen on Sat, 22 October 2011, 15:20:59

Quote from: leotnnz;436858

oh, yeah. 80%with numpad is what i mean. sorry for misleading.

Lets do some math.
Standard extended keyboard layouts have about 109~112 keys. Time those by 0.8 (80%) you get, say for ANSI (US) layout, about 87 keys. Which is the number of keys you get from Tenkeyless.  That should clarify where the 80% came from. Therefore there is no such thing as 80% with numpad, coz that would end up not being 80%.

 With thermaltake meka, you are rather talking about a standard layout with "compact" form factor in general.

Title: Thermaltake Meka
Post by: noodles256 on Sat, 22 October 2011, 15:47:28

ping

Title: Thermaltake Meka
Post by: pitashen on Sat, 22 October 2011, 16:24:10

ping

Title: Thermaltake Meka
Post by: ssshjp on Sat, 22 October 2011, 19:15:34

Puck In Net: Goal!

Anyway, compact form can be referred to the pattern of cherry G80-1865.

Approximate 80% size, it does make sense.

Title: Thermaltake Meka
Post by: pitashen on Sat, 22 October 2011, 20:17:09

Quote from: ssshjp;437001

Puck In Net: Goal!

Anyway, compact form can be referred to the pattern of cherry G80-1865.

Approximate 80% size, it does make sense.

if you can provide some numbers with regard to the area reduction of 20% say G80-3000 vs G80-1865. It would be great.

Title: Thermaltake Meka
Post by: ssshjp on Sat, 22 October 2011, 20:51:15

Well, I mean 80% does better describing the size of TT Meka than compact form, since compact form can be regarded as G80-1865 size, which is not small enough to reduce 20% size to standard 104.

Title: Thermaltake Meka
Post by: dorkvader on Sat, 22 October 2011, 21:09:44

Quote from: ripster;436908

Ping is an acronym for Packet INternet Groper.  I'm SERIOUS!

Yep: I use it frequently, too.

ping -c 10 http://www.google.com

'cause if google is down, you have bigger problems than your internet not working. :p
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Why don't you get a tenkeyless keyboard (like the CMstorm) and add a tenkey-pad to it? There is a link to some $20 ALPS ones from ebay in the great finds section.

Title: Thermaltake Meka
Post by: dimoniy on Sun, 23 October 2011, 14:39:43

If you want gaming keyboard, you better get meka G1. "Just meka" sucks IMO.