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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: ZYX on Fri, 01 July 2016, 10:28:27
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I have a question for you guys, but I suppose that I already know the answer since I have been searching the Internet for quite some time about it. The subject says it what I need from the keyboard:
1. mechanical, preferably with the Cherry MX Blue tactile switches for programming and typing;
2. wireless mode, 2.4GHz (it should be usable for PC BIOS), but I need it to have wired mode as well;
3. backlight in wireless mode, I like to work with the lights off at night;
4. 87 keys, alternatively it could have 96 keys (e.g. Plum MX96) or maybe even 84 like Noppoo Choc Mini 2M.
Well, I have several aesthetic requests as well:
5. black case and keys;
6. translucent letters on the keys, i.e. the backlight should be seen through the letters, but not through the rest of the keys;
7. hotkeys for backlight level and to turn it on/off.
Do you have any suggestion please? For now, it seems that Morphling Plum 87 has the most requirements covered, but I read that it doesn't have backlight in wireless mode. Also, the only model that I could find on aliexpress is with the Red switches.
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Do you have any suggestion please?
Yes. A nice, long, cold - freezing cold in fact - shower, followed by a good long hard think about your life.
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The Varmilo VB87M would meet most of these requirements, except it's Bluetooth, and lacks the wired/wireless interchange-ability (and requires repairing upon reboot). Are you in your BIOS or rebooting a lot? That seems like another issue...is there a need for wired other than just "I want it wired"?
The Varmilo does come with a black case, you may or may not need a different set of keycaps to meet your needs (they should have the letters at the bottom for maximum light-output).
My suggestion is to learn touch typing...once you do, backlighting becomes a bit moot (I work in the dark with a keyboard that has blank keycaps).
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Thanks for the fast reply.
Yeah, I have already considered Vermilo but, as you said, it has some things that don't suit my needs.
I have one Adesso Bluetooth keyboard and it is horrible, disconnecting every now and then without any recognizable reason. I tried several Bluetooth adapters, some of them are embedded on different motherboards, and I had always the same problems. Maybe it is such thing only with this keyboard, but I am not sure if I want to experiment with another Bluetooth keyboard again.
I don't enter to BIOS very often, but from time to time I am getting some problems during boot-up when I need to use a keyboard, e.g. just to press F2 or something like that. I could use Bluetooth keyboard in such case, but only if it has a dual mode, i.e. if it could be used with a wire.
Besides, I want a dual mode keyboard if the new one has the same problems with the wireless as the current one, so I could use it in the wired mode at least. It could replace one old wired keyboard that I use which has the numerical keypad that I don't need, it just unnecessarily consumes the space.
I don't need the maximum light-output, this is why I wrote that I want light to go only through the letters, but not through the rest of the keys. I need just gentle, discrete lights to recognize with the peripheral vision which keys I am pressing in the dark. I am over 50, using computers since '80, but never learned to completely blind type, and I doubt I would ever do.
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Do you have any suggestion please?
Yes. A nice, long, cold - freezing cold in fact - shower, followed by a good long hard think about your life.
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