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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Twig on Tue, 05 June 2012, 10:44:30

Title: BenQ KX890 new mechanical keyboard
Post by: Twig on Tue, 05 June 2012, 10:44:30

Interesting aesthetic here, probably not the sort of thing geekhackers go for? interesting non the less.

-Looks like they'll be a choice of 3 switches. Black is one of them.
-reroutable cable (like cm storm boards)
-usb cable isnt detachable
-abs keycaps
-the button in the top right turns on/off windows key
-USB 6KRO

http://www.pcpop.com/doc/0/784/784834_1.shtml

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Title: BenQ KX890 new mechanical keyboard
Post by: Enki on Tue, 05 June 2012, 10:55:28

As the kids say, lolno.  But it's nice to see another player in the marketplace...another step closer to mechanicals moving towards sane pricing?

Title: BenQ KX890 new mechanical keyboard
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Tue, 05 June 2012, 11:00:18

Bigass enter ruins it. I sort of like the translucent red keycaps though.

Title: BenQ KX890 new mechanical keyboard
Post by: wiredPANDA on Tue, 05 June 2012, 12:40:11

Quote from: Enki;607854

As the kids say, lolno.  But it's nice to see another player in the marketplace...another step closer to mechanicals moving towards sane pricing?

We can only hope prices start to decline.  For me that would be a bad thing - since I'd be prone to spending more than I do on boards/caps than I would typically.


And I'm not sure why, either, but I like that white board with orange/red translucent caps.

Title: BenQ KX890 new mechanical keyboard
Post by: danielucf on Wed, 06 June 2012, 04:23:29

Steelseries 7G clone?

Title: BenQ KX890 new mechanical keyboard
Post by: Grimey on Wed, 06 June 2012, 17:00:09

I have a feeling we could get a bigger enter key into production at the cost of other very useful keys.  It appears that some sort of market for it must exists.

Title: BenQ KX890 new mechanical keyboard
Post by: phetto on Wed, 06 June 2012, 17:10:11

Think is looks hella cool, too bad we will never see it in Sweden. :-(

Title: BenQ KX890 new mechanical keyboard
Post by: phetto on Wed, 06 June 2012, 17:13:24

Just had a vision, that keyboard, a fancy glowing mouse and one of those transparent pc case that was so popular in 2004 would look so badass!!

Title: BenQ KX890 new mechanical keyboard
Post by: FoxWolf1 on Wed, 06 June 2012, 18:21:07

It's like the opposite of my D07-135: translucent orange keys and an opaque case, instead of opaque keys and a translucent orange case.

Title: BenQ KX890 new mechanical keyboard
Post by: RotaryFist on Sat, 23 June 2012, 13:05:51

I came across this keyboard somewhere and when I searched for it I came across this thread. The enter key does bother me but that white and red one looks so awesome. I would get it just to have it.

Title: BenQ KX890 new mechanical keyboard
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 23 June 2012, 18:49:01

The orange keys do have a sort of allure, but not with the big Enter key.

Is it backlit?  I have a feeling it would look kinda weird being backlit.

Title: BenQ KX890 new mechanical keyboard
Post by: nabee on Sat, 23 June 2012, 23:26:24

I was debating this Benq keyboard and my current keycool87.  The price was little bit higher but I really like the transparent keycaps.  But the problem was, Benq was ONLY available with black switches for now.   So I went with browns on keycool.  I would have ordered BENQ if it came with reds or browns with LED.  

Still enjoying my first mechanical keyboard. ^_^