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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: ranunky on Fri, 31 August 2012, 19:57:17
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Hi new member here, it's great that a place like this exists.
UK keyboard for <€50?
*I want a UK keyboard with £ key and large enter key
*I want a keyboard with no number pad
*It must cost €50 or less (not strict here)
What are my options?
Thanks in advance
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Hi Welcome to GH!
The CM storm Quickfire Rapid is a good choice. High quality at a cheap price. Should be able to buy with Mx Red, Mx Brown or Mx Black in the UK with ISO layout.
Should cost around that £50-£60. Its made by Costar and is thus a quality board and has no numpad, namely Tenkeyless.
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You can probably get a used IBM model M for under 50 euro, too.
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Hi Welcome to GH!
The CM storm Quickfire Rapid is a good choice. High quality at a cheap price. Should be able to buy with Mx Red, Mx Brown or Mx Black in the UK with ISO layout.
Should cost around that £50-£60. Its made by Costar and is thus a quality board and has no numpad, namely Tenkeyless.
This looks perfect. The only thing is, I can only find UK retailers selling the brown-coloured version (not the keys, the keyboard itself is brown/grey). I would like the black version displayed on cm storm's site. Know where I can buy the black version? Or any other black tenkeyless keyboards?
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The Mx Black, Brown and Blue version of that keyboard is grey. The one with Mx Red is the black board, and its the board I have and I think look nicest and you seem to share my opinion (and it has my favorite switch aswell).
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/coolermaster-cm-storm-quickfire-rapid-mechanical-cherry-red-mx-gaming-keyboard
Thats what I found and its the only retailer I know from UK since I dont live there. Theres obviously more retailersites that you can check I guess.
Dont be fooled by those pictures btw. The keyboard doesnt look like that. Rather its a normal ISO UK version of the keyboard with a different enter that you should be used to.
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You can probably get a used IBM model M for under 50 euro, too.
UK layout ones go for more actually. Mine cost £70.
Lot more in the US, actually the euro ones are going up too.
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Hi Welcome to GH!
The CM storm Quickfire Rapid is a good choice. High quality at a cheap price. Should be able to buy with Mx Red, Mx Brown or Mx Black in the UK with ISO layout.
Should cost around that £50-£60. Its made by Costar and is thus a quality board and has no numpad, namely Tenkeyless.
This looks perfect. The only thing is, I can only find UK retailers selling the brown-coloured version (not the keys, the keyboard itself is brown/grey). I would like the black version displayed on cm storm's site. Know where I can buy the black version? Or any other black tenkeyless keyboards?
If you want to make it black a few people have done vinyl wraps. Gunmetal aka grey isn't that bad though although I dislike the finish meh.
Also your only other option for black and tenkeyless is a filco currently.
Still don't understand the love for the big enter :|