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Title: Think of grabbing a Ducky Mini YOTH Limit Edtion, any thoughts on it?
Post by: Neo.X on Sat, 28 February 2015, 19:39:59

Ducky Mini YOTH Limit Edtion is available in Canada now, it looks really nice. I am thinking of to grab one.

Any GHer have one of those ? Any thoughts on it? How solid it is compare to other alu case 60% ones? Any issues you have with it?

Any input will be helpful, thanks in advance.  ;)

Title: Re: Think of grabbing a Ducky Mini YOTH Limit Edtion, any thoughts on it?
Post by: miroslav on Sat, 28 February 2015, 23:29:07

Hey I have 2 of the YOTH Ducky Mini (MX Reds and MX Browns). I think the build quality of the board is pretty solid due to the aluminum. But for a 60% board, the price tag that it comes with isn't quite worth it. It's almost twice the cost of a Poker II and I wouldn't buy it other than for collection purposes. The height of the keyboard is pretty flat if you get what I mean. The Poker II has a slight angle in the case which gives it a nice height but the Ducky Mini doesn't have the same design with their case so it's rather flat. The board has a mouse cluster which is pretty nice for using whilst on the go so like maybe on a train etc. The function layer of the board is essentially used to swap the key priorities like swapping the tilde with escape etc. (No dip switches). There is also unfortunately no programmable layer to the keyboard either so you'll be forced to used AutoHotKey if you wanted to reprogram the board to Colemak, Dvorak or something else.

Also if you intend to mod the board at any point such as swapping cases etc, the Poker II > Ducky Mini any day.

Hope that helps.

Title: Re: Think of grabbing a Ducky Mini YOTH Limit Edtion, any thoughts on it?
Post by: Neo.X on Sun, 01 March 2015, 13:17:59

Thanks a lot for the detail information, miroslav.  This is really helpful :thumb:

Title: Re: Think of grabbing a Ducky Mini YOTH Limit Edtion, any thoughts on it?
Post by: Sygaldry on Sun, 01 March 2015, 13:23:54

For that price, I'd rather build a GON.

Title: Re: Think of grabbing a Ducky Mini YOTH Limit Edtion, any thoughts on it?
Post by: Neo.X on Sun, 01 March 2015, 19:56:58

One question, does each YOTH come with a ducky keychain? Is not really clear on this in the product description or specification, and one unbox video I found on Youtube didn't show the keychain inside.

Title: Re: Think of grabbing a Ducky Mini YOTH Limit Edtion, any thoughts on it?
Post by: Halverson on Sun, 01 March 2015, 20:05:43

Quote from: Neo.X on Sun, 01 March 2015, 19:56:58

One question, does each YOTH come with a ducky keychain? Is not really clear on this in the product description or specification, and one unbox video I found on Youtube didn't show the keychain inside.

I would ask the seller to be sure. I know back in the day my YotD had the keychain shipped by the seller after the keyboard.

Title: Re: Think of grabbing a Ducky Mini YOTH Limit Edtion, any thoughts on it?
Post by: Neo.X on Sun, 01 March 2015, 20:11:36

Quote from: Halverson on Sun, 01 March 2015, 20:05:43

Quote from: Neo.X on Sun, 01 March 2015, 19:56:58

One question, does each YOTH come with a ducky keychain? Is not really clear on this in the product description or specification, and one unbox video I found on Youtube didn't show the keychain inside.

I would ask the seller to be sure. I know back in the day my YotD had the keychain shipped by the seller after the keyboard.

That's a good idea, I will give NCIX a call about this. Thanks