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Title: Browns feel a little different WASD vs. Noppoo
Post by: lightsout714 on Sat, 07 January 2012, 15:08:30

I love the browns on my WASD. On the choc mini not so much. I guess its the keycaps. The WASD keys have a nice sold feel to them.  I kind of like the slickness too.  Can keycaps make that much of a difference?

Title: Browns feel a little different WASD vs. Noppoo
Post by: fossala on Sat, 07 January 2012, 15:40:38

I have found that the plate makes a difference as well.

Title: Browns feel a little different WASD vs. Noppoo
Post by: maoiste on Sat, 07 January 2012, 15:43:06

i like my black choc's browns better with non stock keys. both pbt blanks and cherry double shots feel alot better and it feels like the switch has a different touch with those. best you try it yourself as it might just be the often quoted mcrip effect that is speaking here.

Title: Browns feel a little different WASD vs. Noppoo
Post by: lightsout714 on Sat, 07 January 2012, 15:55:27

Quote from: fossala;485499

I have found that the plate makes a difference as well.

Do these two boards use a different setup?

Quote from: maoiste;485500

i like my black choc's browns better with non stock keys. both pbt blanks and cherry double shots feel alot better and it feels like the switch has a different touch with those. best you try it yourself as it might just be the often quoted mcrip effect that is speaking here.

Idk what the mcrip effect is but its definitely different. Everytime I use the WASD I love it.  I got rid of the mini (for other reasons).  But everytime I use the WASD I feel like I really like the browns.  Would like a TKL with the same feel.

Title: Browns feel a little different WASD vs. Noppoo
Post by: oneproduct on Sat, 07 January 2012, 18:14:35

I noticed that my friend's Leopold with browns feels very different than my Filco with browns. I think it mostly comes from the Leopold's keycaps being slightly thicker. I couldn't say that one felt better than the other though, the thin caps felt very crisp, I suppose because there is less plastic interfering with the feel of the switch. The thicker caps felt more sturdy. Both were good in their own way.

Title: Browns feel a little different WASD vs. Noppoo
Post by: lightsout714 on Sat, 07 January 2012, 18:18:59

Hmm interesting.  I'm thinking about just being done with it and buying a filco. CM red/filco brown.

Title: Browns feel a little different WASD vs. Noppoo
Post by: mechanisch on Sat, 07 January 2012, 18:52:15

Buy the Filco Ninja; sell me the caps :P

Title: Browns feel a little different WASD vs. Noppoo
Post by: slueth on Sat, 07 January 2012, 18:53:53

Hmm, I prefer the feel of the noppoo keycaps vs the regular abs keycaps.

Title: Browns feel a little different WASD vs. Noppoo
Post by: lightsout714 on Sat, 07 January 2012, 18:58:00

Quote from: slueth;485617

Hmm, I prefer the feel of the noppoo keycaps vs the regular abs keycaps.

Ya weird idk what it is. Profile? Thickness? I like the texture.

Quote from: mechanisch;485616

Buy the Filco Ninja; sell me the caps :P

Too bad they don't have a black ninja with browns on Amazon.

Title: Browns feel a little different WASD vs. Noppoo
Post by: squarebox on Sat, 07 January 2012, 23:21:52

Quote from: slueth;485617

Hmm, I prefer the feel of the noppoo keycaps vs the regular abs keycaps.

POM(delrin) keycaps, I love them too.
PBT is overrated. Hipsters will hipsters.

Title: Browns feel a little different WASD vs. Noppoo
Post by: lightsout714 on Sat, 07 January 2012, 23:26:41

I've yet to try pbt, (new at this). Got a white set coming from qtan. Hopefully I don't end up preferring the WASD style caps over them. PBT's have a texture to them right?

Title: Browns feel a little different WASD vs. Noppoo
Post by: N8N on Sun, 08 January 2012, 07:30:54

It depends.  Cherry PBTs are damn near slick, but for some reason they don't feel anything like "well broken in" ABS doubleshots.

Which reminds me, I have some space bars to mod that I've been putting off for ages and ages.  Gotta get actually working on some of these things.  Damn jobs and cars and laundry and cooking and cleaning...