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Title: Rebranded Cherry G80 Compaq (MX Blacks)
Post by: Blaise170 on Sat, 06 June 2015, 11:26:56: Found this while browsing ebay. Rebranded Cherry G80 with PBT and MX Blacks.

www.ebay.com/itm/271883598303
Title: Re: Rebranded Cherry G80 Compaq (MX Blacks)
Post by: Photekq on Sat, 06 June 2015, 11:29:02: Unless it's been modified it will have MX browns.
Title: Re: Rebranded Cherry G80 Compaq (MX Blacks)
Post by: nubbinator on Sat, 06 June 2015, 12:18:57: Looks like thin lasered PBT. I've seen these go for $40 shipped in the past. So not a horrible price, but not a great one either.
Title: Re: Rebranded Cherry G80 Compaq (MX Blacks)
Post by: Blaise170 on Sat, 06 June 2015, 12:40:36: LPAUS should be MX Blacks according to the Cherry article numbers on DT wiki.
Title: Re: Rebranded Cherry G80 Compaq (MX Blacks)
Post by: Photekq on Sat, 06 June 2015, 13:06:08: Quote from: Blaise170 on Sat, 06 June 2015, 12:40:36
LPAUS should be MX Blacks according to the Cherry article numbers on DT wiki.
Yeah, it should be. But sometimes Cherry keyboards aren't what they should be according to the article numbers.

This one has MX browns for sure.
Title: Re: Rebranded Cherry G80 Compaq (MX Blacks)
Post by: fohat.digs on Sat, 06 June 2015, 17:20:58: My experience is that the G80-11800 has the trackball and MX brown, and that the G80-11900 has the trackpad and MX blacks.

The track ball and its buttons suck but the track pad is very nice, although small and too old for things like 2-finger swiping.
Title: Re: Rebranded Cherry G80 Compaq (MX Blacks)
Post by: Findecanor on Sat, 06 June 2015, 18:55:13: Quote from: nubbinator on Sat, 06 June 2015, 12:18:57
Looks like thin lasered PBT.
I have heard that there would be Compaqs with thick lasered keys but I have not actually seen one. Would they have the older font?
Title: Re: Rebranded Cherry G80 Compaq (MX Blacks)
Post by: nubbinator on Sat, 06 June 2015, 20:31:34: Quote from: Findecanor on Sat, 06 June 2015, 18:55:13
Quote from: nubbinator on Sat, 06 June 2015, 12:18:57
Looks like thin lasered PBT.
I have heard that there would be Compaqs with thick lasered keys but I have not actually seen one. Would they have the older font?

No clue, I've only seen thin PBT. Some of the thin PBT boards will have a spattering of thick caps, usually an enter, backspace, or shift (from what I've seen), but I don't know if that's true with the G80-1800 boards.
Title: Re: Rebranded Cherry G80 Compaq (MX Blacks)
Post by: Photekq on Sat, 06 June 2015, 20:41:22: Compaqs with thick PBT = dots on F, J.

Compaqs with thin PBT = lines on F,J like this one.
Title: Re: Rebranded Cherry G80 Compaq (MX Blacks)
Post by: dorkvader on Sun, 07 June 2015, 00:09:44: Quote from: fohat.digs on Sat, 06 June 2015, 17:20:58
My experience is that the G80-11800 has the trackball and MX brown, and that the G80-11900 has the trackpad and MX blacks.

The track ball and its buttons suck but the track pad is very nice, although small and too old for things like 2-finger swiping.

I havent tried the trackball but the trackpads are bad IMO. Well not bad: they are usually Cirque or alps (and possibly synaptics on newer models) but they are very low DPI. Buttons are cherry microswitches, which are like those omron ones everyone likes in their mouse but a little more clicky. I rather like them and harvest them when I can.
Title: Re: Rebranded Cherry G80 Compaq (MX Blacks)
Post by: Findecanor on Sun, 07 June 2015, 06:23:56: Quote from: nubbinator on Sat, 06 June 2015, 20:31:34
Some of the thin PBT boards will have a spattering of thick caps, usually an enter, backspace, or shift (from what I've seen), but I don't know if that's true with the G80-1800 boards.
The stabilised keys are thick on all G80-series boards with otherwise thin PBT, AFAIK.