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Title: Cherry Blue switches??
Post by: 003 on Thu, 24 July 2008, 09:08:14

I am very confused. I was under the impression that the Cherry Blue switches were tactile and had a rated lifespan of 20 million key presses.

I have a Das Keyboard Pro and a Cherry G80-3000 which I ordered here:
https://store.mpactinc.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=G80-3000LSCRC-2

The DK Pro has tactile cherry blue switches and as I would expect, the keys are rated for 20 million presses.

However, the G80-3000 also has tactile Cherry Blue switches, and it is rated for 50 million key presses per key. I took off the esc key on each keyboard, and the switches look exactly the same. Same shade of blue and everything.

Was the 50 million rating on the G80-3000 a typo or is something else going on and I am very confused now?

Title: Cherry Blue switches??
Post by: lowpoly on Thu, 24 July 2008, 09:30:38

IIRC: The 50 million keystrokes were only for linear switches. This has been discussed here lately. The conclusion was that the notch wears off on the blue and brown switches. They will probably still make contact but lose the tactile/clicky function. Which renders them non-functional from Cherry's point of view.

Title: Cherry Blue switches??
Post by: firegun9 on Thu, 24 July 2008, 09:34:19

50 million is for black switches only. Both brown and blue switches have 20 million key presses. I think it's a typo.

BTW, the model is G80-3000LSCRC-2, could you tell me what kind of layout does it have? Does "RC" mean "Republic of China?" If so, are there Chinese characters on the keys?

Title: Cherry Blue switches??
Post by: 003 on Thu, 24 July 2008, 09:41:35

Ok, thanks for the clarification. The layout on the G80-3000 I have is the standard US qwerty layout, but it also has what appears to be Chinese and Korean symbols on the keys as well as English letters, with the English letters being the boldest and most prominent.

I did notice that the F and J keys do not have notches on them, but that doesn't really bother me.

Title: Cherry Blue switches??
Post by: xsphat on Thu, 24 July 2008, 10:53:17

What's 30 million strokes between friends anyway?

Title: Cherry Blue switches??
Post by: itlnstln on Thu, 24 July 2008, 11:35:51

Quote from: xsphat;6873

What's 30 million strokes between friends anyway?

Yeah, by that time, you'll want to try another 'board anyway ;)

Title: Cherry Blue switches??
Post by: xsphat on Thu, 24 July 2008, 11:36:50

Quote from: itlnstln;6889

Yeah, by that time, you'll want to try another 'board anyway ;)

or another friend ...

Title: Cherry Blue switches??
Post by: sashomasho on Thu, 24 July 2008, 14:18:47

Quote from: xsphat;6873

What's 30 million strokes between friends anyway?

:)))) again sharp as a knife....

Title: Cherry Blue switches??
Post by: xsphat on Thu, 24 July 2008, 14:38:19

To bad there is even less of a market for keyboard comedians, huh?

Title: Cherry Blue switches??
Post by: xsphat on Thu, 24 July 2008, 14:46:32

And thank you, BTW.