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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: IBI on Mon, 08 June 2009, 11:51:38

Title: Has anyone tried the ACK-230 soft touch?
Post by: IBI on Mon, 08 June 2009, 11:51:38

It appears to be some sort of hybrid mechanical/membrane keyboard like the model M and seems to be availible in germany under the keysonic brand for fairly cheap. (€16,55 here (http://www.watercooling.de/catalog/keysonic_kompakte_tastatur_schwarz_usb_anschluss-p-118715.html?utm_medium=CPC&) for example)

details (http://66.102.9.132/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http://www.iqmore.idv.tw/archives/54&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&usg=ALkJrhio1IEqOqAbJ5AmRY--ANDGCa2z4w), more details (http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vshopu.com%2Fstack230B%2F&sl=ja&tl=en&history_state0=), keysonic page (http://www.maxpoint.de/en/products/keyboards.php?pid=1_3_7&we_objectID=586)

Title: Has anyone tried the ACK-230 soft touch?
Post by: ssb on Mon, 08 June 2009, 17:13:03

Don't bother with it.
Three months ago I've got one from a local Keysonic dealer but it was POS; much worst than other 10$ membrane keyboards I've used before.

Title: Has anyone tried the ACK-230 soft touch?
Post by: huha on Mon, 08 June 2009, 17:25:26

You can get it even cheaper (http://geizhals.at/deutschland/a52703.html).

Judging from the price, I'd suggest it to be just a standard rubber dome board. Maybe the white plastic part is just there to keep the keycap from wiggling around too much.

-huha

Title: Has anyone tried the ACK-230 soft touch?
Post by: ch_123 on Mon, 08 June 2009, 17:28:46

Some old rubber dome keyboards (eg. Dell Quiet-Key) used a sort of pseudo-keyswitch construction between the keycap and the dome. Doesnt make much of a difference in my experience.