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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: nh3728 on Thu, 19 April 2012, 15:43:15

Title: Cherry Advise. Leopold Tenkeyles, Ducky 1087 or Filco Majestouch 2 tenkeyless?
Post by: nh3728 on Thu, 19 April 2012, 15:43:15

Hi there,

First time poster so if im posting in the wrong place please point me in the correct direction.

I got my first taste of a mechanical keyboard a couple of months ago when i bought a dell AT102W.
I picked it up for £20 and it been amazing.

I want to try out some MX Cherry switches and after doing a lot of research i decided that the browns would best suit me.

What do the cherry browns compare to my current black alps as far as noise and feel?
Also i live in the UK so where is best to buy from(cheapest)? is it a good idea trying to buy from a Japanese website or where ever they are made?
I was going to try and get a UK layout but after looking around they seem hard to get hold of and almost impossible to get extra keycaps for. Shall i just get the USA layout?

At the moment i am considering Leopold Tenkeyles, Ducky 1087 or Filco Majestouch 2 tenkeyless.

Any advise or suggestions would be a great help

thanks in advance

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Title: Cherry Advise. Leopold Tenkeyles, Ducky 1087 or Filco Majestouch 2 tenkeyless?
Post by: Autolyze on Thu, 19 April 2012, 20:29:23

I'm afraid that I haven't tried black ALPS, but most people prefer the feel of Cherry MX Browns over them.

If you're interested in easily replacing keycaps, then an ANSI (US) layout makes sense, but UK ISO boards should not be too difficult for to find, at least for Filcos.

I would advise against the Ducky 1087, but Leopold and Filco are both good choices. The Filco is generally regarded as higher quality, and it should not be too much more expensive if you're in the UK, since you would probably need to import a Leopold. The big difference between Filcos and Leopolds are the stabilizers they use for the larger (backspace and wider) keys. The Filcos use Costar stabilizers that make pressing the large keys feel fairly close to pressing the small keys, but can make it a little obnoxious to remove the keycaps. The Leopolds use Cherry stabilizers that enable easy removal of the keycaps, but also make the keys feel a little mushy. If you're looking for a board with Cherry MX brown switches, then I'd advise going with the Filco.

www.keyboardco.co.uk (http://www.keyboardco.co.uk) is the official Filco distributor for the UK, so you should see if they have anything that looks good to you.