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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: okan on Sun, 26 March 2017, 07:35:57
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I know you can't see much but these are the only photos i have. $3 each.
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Just my opinion, but I usually do not risk buying an unknown board, which has nonstandard keys (like the spacebar of the upper), or a a curved frame (like the lower) as these things usually lower the chance of finding a mechanical keyboard. Talking about your average fullsize beige keyboard of course.
However if you simply want to identifiy them out of interest, I can not help too much. BUT I often simply ask the sellers to show the back label or remove a keycap and take another photo.
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for $3 it's worth just picking them up
they don't look like anything good though
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Please remove a keycap and take a photo of the switches underneath.
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I believe that both are OEM rubber domes.
The one with big modifiers and relatively small spacebar should be a Chicony (can't recall exact model number) and fairly decent.
I'm not familiar with the exact Samsung model, but I've used many similar ones that were completely awful.
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I believe that both are OEM rubber domes.
The one with big modifiers and relatively small spacebar should be a Chicony (can't recall exact model number) and fairly decent.
I'm not familiar with the exact Samsung model, but I've used many similar ones that were completely awful.
They would have to be rubber domes. They just have that obvious non-mechanical look to them, and they were both made during the time where mechanical keyboards were being phased out for rubber dome keyboards.
But I'd have to disagree with your view on Samsung rubber domes. IMO they're some of the best (pure) rubber domes I've ever tried, I like them even more than BTC and NMB dome with sliders.
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They would have to be rubber domes. They just have that obvious non-mechanical look to them, and they were both made during the time where mechanical keyboards were being phased out for rubber dome keyboards.
The conclusion is bollocks. I just got a couple of boxes full of "mechanical" keyboards from that time, with various similar layouts; some have Windows keys, some don't—it's a lottery. That said, these mechanical-contact switches are mostly cheap clones and not worth the time generally. Stuff like APC Clicker, Aristotles and Taiwan * switches, clones of simplified Alps, Acer switches… One of the notable few exceptions being Chicony KB-5981 w/ Monterey switches. I tend to keep them only to harvest keycaps (if they're Alps/MX compatible).
That said, the OP's chicony has an unique layout: the large modifiers are specific to this product series (5911, 2923 and similar). That's a rubber dome over membrane for sure.
But I'd have to disagree with your view on Samsung rubber domes. IMO they're some of the best (pure) rubber domes I've ever tried, I like them even more than BTC and NMB dome with sliders.
Either Samsung supplied various keyboards to different markets, or we have incompatible ideas about what's "good".
Those were (and still are) common in libraries, where I live, and I remember we had them in the home office in early 2000s. I didn't mind it back then (which is weird, because I was coming from objectively much better keyboards), but now when I stumble upon one, it's always horrendous: stiff, almost linear and extremely gritty. Sort of like dirty Cherry MY. (And I actually don't mind MY in good condition all that much.)
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Rubber domes.