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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Phaedrus2129 on Thu, 15 April 2010, 22:47:55

Title: Adesso keyboard+trackball
Post by: Phaedrus2129 on Thu, 15 April 2010, 22:47:55

Adesso MKB-325UB
http://adesso.com/en/component/content/article/49-coming-soon/249-mkb-325ub.html

This looks intriguing. A mechanical keyboard with MX blues and NKRO with a tolerable layout, and a large, comfortable looking track ball... When I google the model number the only results are on Adesso's webpage, so I'm guessing this is a new product. But I'm quite interested. It looks like their 125B with a trackball added on.

Title: Adesso keyboard+trackball
Post by: bitflipper on Thu, 15 April 2010, 23:52:11

A few thoughts:

Weird placement of the caps/num/scroll lock cluster. Never liked the inverted L enter key. Nice big trackball. Don't like the button placement. Where's the scroll functionality? Could those be double shots?

The "buy now" link is broken.

Still, interesting. I wouldn't mind having one at the right price.

Title: Adesso keyboard+trackball
Post by: Phaedrus2129 on Fri, 16 April 2010, 00:02:57

Well, the 125B which this seems to be based on is selling for ~$50, and the 135B (basically an iOne M10 with NKRO from what I can tell) is $70, so I'd expect this to be anywhere from $100 to $150, hopefully at the lower end of that spectrum.

Too cheap for doubleshot, I'd think, probably decent pad printing (tampo?) or maybe dyesub?

Title: Adesso keyboard+trackball
Post by: ch_123 on Fri, 16 April 2010, 02:51:58

Scorpius used to have a keyboard that looked very similar to that... what is it with this Adesso crowd having all of Scorpius' keyboards? Did they buy iOne?

If it is the same keyboard, I think it might use fake Cherry switches, not blues.

Title: Adesso keyboard+trackball
Post by: Phaedrus2129 on Fri, 16 April 2010, 07:31:28

I haven't heard of fake Cherry switches. ???

Title: Adesso keyboard+trackball
Post by: ch_123 on Fri, 16 April 2010, 07:58:21

The picture on the site is actually of blue Cherrys. The fake cherries that iOne used on some of their keyboards was white/clear.

Now that I think of it, I'm pretty sure the Trackball keyboard I saw had blue cherries.

Title: Adesso keyboard+trackball
Post by: Phaedrus2129 on Fri, 16 April 2010, 08:00:39

All of the MKB models on Adesso's site show that same MX blue pic.

Title: Adesso keyboard+trackball
Post by: MsKeyboard on Fri, 16 April 2010, 09:33:16

This keyboard has been available for awhile:

http://www.fentek-ind.com/trackball-keyboard.htm#kbtbl

Title: Adesso keyboard+trackball
Post by: Nonmouse on Fri, 16 April 2010, 09:49:44

Quote from: MsKeyboard;172702

This keyboard has been available for awhile:

http://www.fentek-ind.com/trackball-keyboard.htm#kbtbl

Does that have blue switches?

Title: Adesso keyboard+trackball
Post by: MsKeyboard on Fri, 16 April 2010, 10:04:22

The switches are Blue Cherry

Title: Adesso keyboard+trackball
Post by: bitflipper on Fri, 16 April 2010, 10:08:05

Quote from: MsKeyboard;172702

This keyboard has been available for awhile:

http://www.fentek-ind.com/trackball-keyboard.htm#kbtbl

Hey MS, shouldn't your site state 50 million clicks per switch instead of 20?

Title: Adesso keyboard+trackball
Post by: MsKeyboard on Fri, 16 April 2010, 10:20:21

Bitflipper, you are probably right.  That has been there for a long time, and we usually just grab the info off the spec sheets, so I should revisit that listing.

Also, thanks for the location of that shop up north, stopped in and found a really nice Model M.  Now every time I'm in the neighborhood I feel compelled to stop in and check for Mini's or F's :)

Title: Adesso keyboard+trackball
Post by: Phaedrus2129 on Fri, 16 April 2010, 10:24:28

So is that under the Adesso brand, or is it un-branded?

Title: Adesso keyboard+trackball
Post by: MsKeyboard on Fri, 16 April 2010, 10:28:57

It is an iOne board, but labels don't really tell you anything, if you know what I mean ;)

Title: Adesso keyboard+trackball
Post by: Phaedrus2129 on Fri, 16 April 2010, 10:52:26

I was just wondering if you were getting them from the OEM is all. ;)



So the MKB-135B looks like an M10, and the MKB-325UB looks like an iOne board as well... And the 125B is just a 325UB without the trackball. So... Is Adesso imitating iOne? Except, all of their boards claim NKRO, which is a notable difference. I've been recommending the 135B a lot, because an M10+NKRO for $10 more t han the M10 is a heluva added value for gamers. But I don't know if anyone's gotten one yet, so we don't know if that's real or just false marketing guff.