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Title: More info on this Cherry keyboard?
Post by: colinstu on Mon, 19 January 2009, 05:17:02

(http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/1985/img0001vn7.jpg)

G80-3000LQMUS

(http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/1329/img0006oy9.jpg)

Best picture I could take of the switch... White Cherry switches

(http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/2617/img0011ew5.jpg)

What exactly is this kind of switch like? The feel of the whole thing doesn't seem much different then a membrane keyboard, but there is a certain feel that makes it 100% better then one.

Title: More info on this Cherry keyboard?
Post by: lam47 on Mon, 19 January 2009, 05:49:39

it should feel 100% different to a membrane.
The clear Cherries should be tactile clicky switches and be a million miles away from any membrane board.

Title: More info on this Cherry keyboard?
Post by: sandy55 on Mon, 19 January 2009, 06:10:05

lam, It's Soft Contact, in cherry language.

Title: More info on this Cherry keyboard?
Post by: lam47 on Mon, 19 January 2009, 06:41:02

Oh ball is it?
They look like proper switches to me.
If its one of those horrible ftsc ones then eww. My apologise. Its worse than a membrane.
I didnt sleep so I might be talking rubbish but wise is the star captain in a flock of rubber geese.

Title: More info on this Cherry keyboard?
Post by: sandy55 on Mon, 19 January 2009, 06:42:14

Quote from: sandy55;18681

lam, It's Soft Contact, in cherry language.

Wow, big mistake.    "Soft Tactile"  actually.

Title: More info on this Cherry keyboard?
Post by: lowpoly on Mon, 19 January 2009, 06:48:26

G80 Cherry MX switch
3000 the big standard case
L lasered keycaps
Q soft tactile
M ps/2 connector
US ANSI layout with horizontal enter

The soft tactile should have a stronger spring than the brown which is 'soft tactile ergonomic'. I'm still puzzeled when it comes to white and clear MXs.

Title: More info on this Cherry keyboard?
Post by: sandy55 on Mon, 19 January 2009, 06:49:55

Well, It's a proper MX mechanical switch with stiff spring like MX/blacks, bit stronger tactile feel than MX/browns.  Worth than membrane. But MX/white is not my choice.

Anyway , very very sorry for confusion.
 
sandy, the fox

Title: More info on this Cherry keyboard?
Post by: colinstu on Mon, 19 January 2009, 07:17:37

This keyboard is a 100x nicer then a membrane, but no definite click sound, etc like my Model M :)

Title: More info on this Cherry keyboard?
Post by: xyzzy on Mon, 19 January 2009, 07:55:50

If you press the key very slowly, you should be able to feel a "bump" about 1/4 or 1/3 on the way down.

As sandy said, they're basically Cherry brown switches (soft tactile feedback with NO click sound) with stronger springs (like Cherry blacks).