geekhack

geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: mashby on Sun, 14 April 2013, 21:18:21

Title: Pure Pro
Post by: mashby on Sun, 14 April 2013, 21:18:21
According to Vortex's Facebook page...

Quote
Hi All of you guys~

Pure PRO has been shipped! There are UK, DE, FR version in the first batch.

ETA: April 18th - April 20th, 2013

So I'm guessing that it's all ISO? I don't know. As with anything with Vortex, it's all a guess until we can see them.

I've attached images of both layouts and if you want read up on all the speculation and guessing, I recommend you check out Laffindude's thread (http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=37444.0) where there's more photos and details about this new 60% board.
Title: Re: Pure Pro
Post by: sth on Sun, 14 April 2013, 21:20:03
they need to hire someone who actually gives a **** about layouts to do theirs for them. WTF r_ctrl.
Title: Re: Pure Pro
Post by: Michael on Sun, 14 April 2013, 21:21:04
they need to hire someone who actually gives a **** about layouts to do theirs for them. WTF r_ctrl.


lol
Title: Re: Pure Pro
Post by: mashby on Sun, 14 April 2013, 21:22:36
Yeah, this thing is a mess.
Title: Re: Pure Pro
Post by: samwisekoi on Sun, 14 April 2013, 21:23:10
they need to hire someone who actually gives a **** about layouts to do theirs for them. WTF r_ctrl.

Well, they thought about putting both Control keys on the left, so this is an improvement!

Seriously, there are any number of people here who could do better.

 - Ron I samwisekoi
Title: Re: Pure Pro
Post by: ComradeSniper on Sun, 14 April 2013, 21:26:31

Well, they thought about putting both Control keys on the left

what
Title: Re: Pure Pro
Post by: bear95 on Sun, 14 April 2013, 22:12:26

Well, they thought about putting both Control keys on the left

what

lol
Title: Re: Pure Pro
Post by: dante on Sun, 14 April 2013, 22:20:55
Five years from now people will still want the Poker.  This on the other hand...
Title: Re: Pure Pro
Post by: inteli722 on Sun, 14 April 2013, 22:24:11
dat 4.5x spacebar.
Title: Re: Pure Pro
Post by: clakdale661 on Mon, 15 April 2013, 00:24:18
How are we going to replace that spacebar if we get a Cherry DS set?
Title: Re: Pure Pro
Post by: Sai on Mon, 15 April 2013, 00:26:18
no way to replace that spacebar.  ;D
Title: Re: Pure Pro
Post by: clakdale661 on Mon, 15 April 2013, 00:54:38
Err what a turnoff. Not only will it not match, then when it shines you have to suck it up.
Title: Re: Pure Pro
Post by: The_Beast on Mon, 15 April 2013, 00:56:22
Looks like a hot mess!
Title: Re: Pure Pro
Post by: inteli722 on Mon, 15 April 2013, 07:32:38
I shall forever wonder why PN was deemed more important than Control! :P
Title: Re: Pure Pro
Post by: davkol on Mon, 15 April 2013, 07:59:56
We need a poll. Are those "engineers" (a) idiots, (b) on drugs, or (c) both previous options are correct?
Title: Re: Pure Pro
Post by: inteli722 on Mon, 15 April 2013, 08:02:19
I vote C! :D
Title: Re: Pure Pro
Post by: tricheboars on Mon, 15 April 2013, 09:28:46
send me all your b)
Title: Re: Pure Pro
Post by: BlueBär on Mon, 15 April 2013, 11:28:44
Nobody seems to have noticed it yet, this font is still the one from the original Pure, they just shrank it vertically.
Title: Re: Pure Pro
Post by: n1ko on Sat, 20 April 2013, 00:30:38
I ordered the spanish version of the kbt puro from kbtpure.com pro a month ago. The keyboard showed as "in stock", and actually still does.

But I haven't got any information about when this thing will actually ship. They don't seem to answer their mails and their nice webchat seems to forward to /dev/null. And this is actually the webpage they are recommending for EU users on Vortex facebook etc.

Next week i'm going to pull my money back, and start looking for alternative. I actually liked the idea about 60% with arrows. Does anybody know an alternative 60% with arrows AND iso -layout?
Title: Re: Pure Pro
Post by: calavera on Sat, 20 April 2013, 00:42:24
Massdrop is offering these now I think. Worth checking out if you want one.
Title: Re: Pure Pro
Post by: n1ko on Sat, 20 April 2013, 03:15:54
Massdrop is offering these now I think. Worth checking out if you want one.

Seems to be ANSI version. Such a shame, I love it with the pbt keycaps.
Title: Re: Pure Pro
Post by: rootwyrm on Sat, 20 April 2013, 18:08:05
And anyone is surprised Vortex produces something completely and utterly worthless when they don't have KBT doing all the design work for them or Ducky doing a rebrand?
Title: Re: Pure Pro
Post by: BlueBär on Sat, 20 April 2013, 20:03:29
60% with arrows AND iso -layout?
Your only choice would be a GH60 with custom keycaps because of its programmable layout.