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Title: White Keyboards
Post by: Jmaverick on Wed, 29 February 2012, 22:11:17: Does anyone have a Filco white and Leopold White side by side in a picture? It's hard to tell which is whiter in pics on the web.

Thanks in advance.
Title: White Keyboards
Post by: shogrran on Wed, 29 February 2012, 22:34:07: If I weren't trolling... I'd say this thread is racist! Racist I tell ya! But I'm trolling.
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Post by: Henry Allen Venture on Wed, 29 February 2012, 23:08:07: I've heard the Filco is proper white.
I know for a fact that the Leo isn't very white. See the review in my sig.
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Post by: litster on Wed, 29 February 2012, 23:12:01: No. Filco's white is like condensed milk kinda white.
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Post by: demik on Wed, 29 February 2012, 23:37:52: (http://i53.tinypic.com/2zp5iso.jpg)
(http://i54.tinypic.com/nphwsn.jpg)

pic when i had my leopold
Title: White Keyboards
Post by: Jmaverick on Thu, 01 March 2012, 08:00:14: Quote from: demik;531588
Show Image
(http://i53.tinypic.com/2zp5iso.jpg)

Show Image
(http://i54.tinypic.com/nphwsn.jpg)

pic when i had my leopold

The Leopold looks a lot whiter to me in these. Thanks for the pics!
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Post by: sth on Thu, 01 March 2012, 09:59:41: Be aware that the Leopold is decidedly* not white, but very light beige/grey.

*I decided it.
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Post by: reaper on Thu, 01 March 2012, 10:04:11: Yes...

(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y146/eddie84/OCN/Mech%20keyboard%20club/Ducky/DSC05942.jpg)

Ducky 1087
Title: White Keyboards
Post by: demik on Thu, 01 March 2012, 14:50:29: More Michael Jackson white.
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Post by: flaming_june on Thu, 01 March 2012, 14:53:08: yeah, only ducky's truly white.

jeremy lin is fine with it.
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Post by: obijohn on Fri, 02 March 2012, 05:44:34: I have a white leopold and have also found that pictures don't really convey the color very well. Here's my attempt using HTML color codes. You know, for grins. :becky:

This is white.
This is the color of the Leopold.

I spent way more time than I should have choosing the HTML color code that most closely matched my Leopold. What is wrong with me... :nerd:
Title: White Keyboards
Post by: Bry on Fri, 02 March 2012, 18:50:04: Quote from: obijohn;533005
I have a white leopold and have also found that pictures don't really convey the color very well. Here's my attempt using HTML color codes. You know, for grins. :becky:

This is white.
This is the color of the Leopold.

I spent way more time than I should have choosing the HTML color code that most closely matched my Leopold. What is wrong with me... :nerd:

That awkward moment when you realize everyone's LCD is going to display a different shade depending on their model / age / settings / etc.
Title: White Keyboards
Post by: Awful on Fri, 02 March 2012, 18:57:44: Dumb question inc; Do white boards/caps start to turn crusty colored after awhile?
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Post by: sth on Fri, 02 March 2012, 19:27:40: Quote from: Bry;533476
That awkward moment when you realize everyone's LCD is going to display a different shade depending on their model / age / settings / etc.
Looks pretty accurate to me.
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Post by: demik on Fri, 02 March 2012, 19:29:03: font looks cream to me.

leopold has more of a grey tint to it
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Post by: RTbar on Sat, 03 March 2012, 23:29:38: my choc mini is blindingly white
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Post by: lorem3k on Sat, 03 March 2012, 23:44:51: I think the Leopold white is more like this
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Post by: demik on Sat, 03 March 2012, 23:49:14: thats filco "white"

just look at the picture qtan has of his engraved white pbts on a filco board.
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Post by: reaper on Sat, 03 March 2012, 23:53:26: Quote from: demik;534477
just look at the picture qtan has of his engraved white pbts on a filco board.

That picture scares me. :Cry:
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Post by: demik on Sun, 04 March 2012, 00:07:24: :rofl: filco white
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Post by: obijohn on Sun, 04 March 2012, 05:14:10: Quote from: Awful;533481
Dumb question inc; Do white boards/caps start to turn crusty colored after awhile?

The "crusty" color you're talking about, which everyone has seen thanks to the older "white" computer cases and CRT monitor cases, is actually caused by a two different factors. The plastic used on those white computer cases is actually ABS (same as these keyboard). However, ABS is flammable, and computer/monitor cases generate lots of heat and have high voltage electricity running through them, so to meet safety standards Bromine is added as a fire retardant to the ABS. Bromine reacts chemically to heat and UV light, and this chemical reaction causes the ABS to start to turn brown, which combined with the white pigment makes the yellow or "crusty" color. Since most computer parts are not exposed to sunlight, it's mainly the heat that causes the discoloration over time.

Keyboards do not generate heat (your fingertips are probably warmer than any heat generated in the keyboard itself). My last white keyboard was 10 years old and had not started to discolor at all. Not to say they wouldn't do so under certain circumstances, such as being left by a window where the sun shines on it every day, but they will discolor much less than computer cases and monitor cases.
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Post by: megnin on Sun, 04 March 2012, 08:00:58: [ATTACH=CONFIG]42649[/ATTACH]

Here's another view. The Leopold (top left) is a kind of grayish off white. The Filco (top right) is more of a tanish off white. By comparison, the keys on the black keyboard are snow white. The background is a sheet of pure white printer paper. Sorry for the poor lighting.
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Post by: poxeclipse on Sun, 04 March 2012, 08:34:35: If you want a white keyboard, have a look at Noppoo Choc mini. It looks white to me.
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Post by: megnin on Sun, 04 March 2012, 08:44:34: My Choc Mini is as white as the driven snow (almost). I think the keys are made of POM plasitc and are just the slightest shade off white. I can only tell because the South Park keys on it are pure white.
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Post by: nhwhaup on Sun, 04 March 2012, 11:58:25: I have KBC PBT keycaps for both my Filco TKL and my Poker - both are snow white - love them. I use the white keycaps in combination with the black cases and my keyboards look like they are dressed up in tuxedos. I'm a G-Ma and not a dude so it's okay for me to describe my keyboards in tuxedos.....
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Post by: tp4tissue on Sun, 04 March 2012, 21:38:00: Quote from: nhwhaup;534971
I have KBC PBT keycaps for both my Filco TKL and my Poker - both are snow white - love them. I use the white keycaps in combination with the black cases and my keyboards look like they are dressed up in tuxedos. I'm a G-Ma and not a dude so it's okay for me to describe my keyboards in tuxedos.....

G-ma, is that supposed to be girly-man, or grand-mother.

And I never understood the fascination with snow white coloring, UV damage will turn it yellowish eventually, why deal with that.. Black all the way..