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geekhack Community => Reviews => Topic started by: Jonnymcc on Sat, 15 November 2014, 22:08:34
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I'm sure there are many of these...
But I bought a Ducky Shine 3 TKL back in April and I have to say that I love it. For the longest time I was using a SIIG keyboard with scissor keys. In retrospect I was missing out. I bought the Ducky Shine and I can't go back to scissor keys, using a laptop is dreadful. I also bought a Leopold FC660M that I use at work. As for my Ducky Shine it has black switches and blue LEDs. The black switches are great, super smooth and linear as expected. I don't care much about the other lighting modes, I have them on all the time, nothing fancy. I do like having swapped the Ctrl and caps lock keys, feels more comfortable to use the caps lock key instead and I never use caps lock. I'm happy though, that when swapping the keys the Ctrl key becomes the indicator for caps lock. On my Leopold after swapping the keys there is no functioning caps lock indicator =( After having the Ducky for a while I can say it was well worth the money despite recently having two LEDs go out on me. I was considering sending it in for warranty repairs but didn't want to wait. I bought some blue leds from MaxKeyboard.com and a solder sucker (already had a soldering iron) and decided to fix them myself, I did it about an hour ago and I'd say it took me about 2 hours. Not bad for a first time desoldering anything? (also I broke another LED while trying to fix the 2, so I had to replace 3...). By the way the color of the LEDs matches close enough, I can't tell the difference. Also, regarding sound, as long as you don't mash the keys I don't find it any louder than the scissor switch keyboard I used before.
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I have three Ducky Shines, two are still going strong after at least 18 months, maybe it is more like 2 years now!
The first two I got has MX blues in it, but after trying blacks, then greens, I now find the blues way too light.
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The first two I got has MX blues in it, but after trying blacks, then greens, I now find the blues way too light.
Haha I got Mx Clear at work and I cant wait to get home to my Mx Reds :)