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geekhack Community => New Members => Topic started by: samuelellis on Thu, 20 December 2012, 21:10:31

Title: Newbie
Post by: samuelellis on Thu, 20 December 2012, 21:10:31
Aye up - newbie from England here

Bit about me - work in IT as a sysadmin and run linux boxes in my home (and a Linux based computer in my car) so spend a lot of time at the keyboard

Been happily using a Dell membrane keyboard at work for about 4 years now but its time to buy a mechanical keyboard
Title: Re: Newbie
Post by: Sifo on Thu, 20 December 2012, 21:14:00
It is time indeed, welcome aboard to Geehkack!
Title: Re: Newbie
Post by: razorsharpgears on Thu, 20 December 2012, 21:22:37
Welcome to GeekHack!

Once you go mechanical, you can never go back, proceed with caution...  :))
Title: Re: Newbie
Post by: rowdy on Thu, 20 December 2012, 22:02:43
Welcome to Geekhack!

Beware - this can become an expensive "hobby".
Title: Re: Newbie
Post by: samuelellis on Fri, 21 December 2012, 08:45:41
Quote from: rowdy on Thu, 20 December 2012, 22:02:43
Welcome to Geekhack!

Beware - this can become an expensive "hobby".

Hopefully not too expensive as i already have Expensive hobbys (Cars, Car Hifi, Computing and photography) sucking on my wallet
Title: Re: Newbie
Post by: swagpiratex on Fri, 21 December 2012, 11:42:38
Welcome! Just don't let yourself get more than three keyboards and too many novelty keycaps and you should be okay. It's easier when you have a lot of other money-sucking hobbies, haha.
Title: Re: Newbie
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 22 December 2012, 00:32:11
It's easy to clock up thousands of dollars of keyboards (some are like #400 to $400 for a single keyboard), and sets of custom keycaps can run to $100 or more for certain sets.

OTOH if you are careful and only have a few keyboards, and limit the custom keycaps you buy, costs can be kept under control.

Sort of.
Title: Re: Re: Newbie
Post by: TheProfosist on Sat, 22 December 2012, 01:51:46
Quote from: rowdy on Sat, 22 December 2012, 00:32:11
Sort of.
lol
Title: Re: Newbie
Post by: Vintage on Sat, 22 December 2012, 11:46:19
Welcome to Geekhack!!!