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Title: OEM list (solid year?)
Post by: exit on Mon, 23 February 2015, 19:51:21
found this list from a brazilian forum:
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Mas enfim, aí vai a lista dos teclados e quem faz eles:

CM Quickfire Rapid = Costar
CM Quickfire TK = Solid Year
CM Quickfire Stealth = Costar
CM Quickfire Rapid XT = Costar
CM Trigger = Costar
Corsair Vengeance K65 = Solid Year
Corsair Vengeance K70 = Solid Year
Corsair Vengeance K95 = Solid Yeaer
Cherry = Cherry
Das Keyboard Professional S = Costar (O modelo sem teclas multimidias, fora de produção)
Das Keyboard Professional S Silent = Costar (O modelo sem teclas multimidias, fora de produção)
Das Keyboard Ultimate = Costar
Das Keyboard Ultimate Silent = Costar
Déck = TG3 Electronics
Ducky = Várias... A Costar faz a linha Shine. A linha Zero é feita em fábrica própria.
FILCO = Costar
Gigabyte Aivia Osmium = iOne
Leopold = Strongman
Logitech G710+ = Solid Year
Milestone = Datacomp
Mionix Zibal = Costar
Noppoo = PLUM
Ozone Strike = Costar
PLUM = PLUM
Razer Blackwidow 2013 = Solid Year
Razer Blacwidow Ultimate 2013 = Solid Year
Razer Blackwidow 2013 Stealth = Solid Year
Razer Blackwidow Ultimate 2013 Stealth = Solid Year
Razer Blackwidow Tournament = Solid Year
Rosewill = Costar
Steelseries 6Gv2 = Datacomp
Steelseries 7G = Datacomp
Thermaltake Meka G1 = Costar
Zowie Celeritas = Datacomp
WASD = Costar

------------EVITAR---------------

Aziotech Levetron Mech5 = Datacomp
CM Quickfire Pro = iOne
Corsair K60 e K90 = Solid Year
Das Keyboard Professional S with Media Keys = iOne
Das Keyboard Professional S Silent with Media Keys = iOne
Max Keyboard = iOne
Razer Blackwidow (2009) = iOne
Razer Blackwidow Ultimate (2009) = iOne
Razer Blackwidow Ultimate BF3 (2009) = iOne
Razer Blackwidow Ultimate DA II (2009) = iOne
Thermaltake Meka = i-Rocks


Never heard of Solid Year, good OEM?

I remember people didn't know they were an OEM.
Title: Re: OEM list (solid year?)
Post by: Sifo on Mon, 23 February 2015, 19:53:01
Judging by the boards they've made... clearly not.
Title: Re: OEM list (solid year?)
Post by: Novus on Mon, 23 February 2015, 19:53:44
I wonder what KUL uses.
Title: Re: OEM list (solid year?)
Post by: exit on Mon, 23 February 2015, 19:54:30
Judging by the boards they've made... clearly not.

I've heard nothing bad about them except LED dying problems.
Title: Re: OEM list (solid year?)
Post by: Zeal on Mon, 23 February 2015, 20:09:34
I wonder what KUL uses.


Datacomp Electronics Co., Ltd
Title: Re: OEM list (solid year?)
Post by: Melvang on Mon, 23 February 2015, 20:34:17
Is it really fair to blame the OEM when the client isn't more concerned with production numbers and cost than quality?
Title: Re: OEM list (solid year?)
Post by: Korth on Mon, 23 February 2015, 20:57:59
Is it really fair to blame the OEM when the client isn't more concerned with production numbers and cost than quality?

Somebody other than the end-user should be accountable.  The OEM's quality controls should eliminate defects.  The client's quality controls should reject defects.  I guess most clients aren't too concerned unless it drives their brand down and their RMA costs up.

Interesting that every brand advertises some claim towards sparing no expense in emphasizing quality, but so few (if any) actually bother to inspect and test OEM-shipped units before placing them into their own packaging.  Alibaba's FOB prices for "high end" (and high cost) keyboards run as little as six bucks per unit, provided you order many hundreds at a time.  I would kinda expect a client to put a little more effort into justifying a $120-$200+ markup than merely gluing on a brand sticker and stuffing it all into a pretty box with some mediocre software.

Interesting that Costar, maker of many lesser gaming junkboards, also made my Das.

Title: Re: OEM list (solid year?)
Post by: Oobly on Tue, 24 February 2015, 03:35:44
Seems they only make non-standard bottom row boards...

I would steer clear of them, iOne and i-Rocks.

Strongman, Costar and Datacomp seem to be the best of the OEM manufacturers, although I still prefer companies that make their own boards.
Title: Re: OEM list (solid year?)
Post by: Novus on Tue, 24 February 2015, 04:20:21
Seems they only make non-standard bottom row boards...

I would steer clear of them, iOne and i-Rocks.

Strongman, Costar and Datacomp seem to be the best of the OEM manufacturers, although I still prefer companies that make their own boards.

Like what?
Cherry?
Title: Re: OEM list (solid year?)
Post by: davkol on Tue, 24 February 2015, 04:57:13
Thermaltake Meka [G-Unit] is identified as Solid Year (looking at USB HID id) as well. I suppose i-Rocks could actually be an ODM (they sold a similar looking keyboard after all), but I have no idea.
Title: Re: OEM list (solid year?)
Post by: tp4tissue on Tue, 24 February 2015, 05:00:54
Razer is ****, they've always been ****, they're always gonna be ****.. FK RAZER...
Title: Re: OEM list (solid year?)
Post by: Oobly on Tue, 24 February 2015, 06:14:19
Seems they only make non-standard bottom row boards...

I would steer clear of them, iOne and i-Rocks.

Strongman, Costar and Datacomp seem to be the best of the OEM manufacturers, although I still prefer companies that make their own boards.

Like what?
Cherry?

KBT, Vortex and Ducky at least make some of them in-house AFAIK.
Title: Re: OEM list (solid year?)
Post by: Novus on Wed, 25 February 2015, 20:41:36
Seems they only make non-standard bottom row boards...

I would steer clear of them, iOne and i-Rocks.

Strongman, Costar and Datacomp seem to be the best of the OEM manufacturers, although I still prefer companies that make their own boards.

Like what?
Cherry?

KBT, Vortex and Ducky at least make some of them in-house AFAIK.

Oh that's interesting.
You ever tried the new Vortex boards?
I think it's Type-M and Type-S?
Title: Re: OEM list (solid year?)
Post by: derezzed on Thu, 26 February 2015, 00:32:16
Razer is ****, they've always been ****, they're always gonna be ****.. FK RAZER...

I can wholeheartedly agree with 50% of this.  Razer has always seemed like a company that cares more about justifying their prices with branding than with quality.  And the fact that in order to use all the functionality of their keyboards, customers must create an online account so that they can be datamined by Razer puts Razer at the top of my worst keyboard company list.