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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Sintpinty on Tue, 19 February 2019, 16:48:36
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30 g seems pretty light and is even lighter than my cherry mx reds, and the gateron clear switches that i’ve heard off. I’m looking for a space saving option on my desk so that way I can do work, and i’ve think I have found the right choice for me.
Since i’m used to (too much) rubber dome typing, I want something that feels soft on my fingers.
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Topres feel great!
Massdrop has drops occasionally for a 30g Topre keyboard.
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Uhhhh 30g is actually lighter than standard rubberdome, also it's more linear than tactile.
For Topre 55g is most tactile, 45g is decently tactile, 30g is pretty much linear. In my opinion if you want something light and feels good then 45g is a good balance.
30g will be a little bit harder to find though. However if you go with 45g you can go with either 87U or FC660C.
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You can always try Plum boards. They're best topre clones and they have 35g switches. They're really light but very nice to type on.
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Ok, i will consider that an option.
According to wikipedia they have a layout that says
PLUM
READON this
and all the rest of the letters are jumbled.
Here's an article about that:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLUM_keyboard (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLUM_keyboard)
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Ok, i will consider that an option.
According to wikipedia they have a layout that says
PLUM
READON this
and all the rest of the letters are jumbled.
Here's an article about that:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLUM_keyboard (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLUM_keyboard)
Lol are you a bot??
Seriously though not that plum, this one
https://www.nizkeyboard.com/product/plum-8487108-keys-35g-electro-capacitive-keyboard-non-rgb-backlighting/
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I'd recommend a Realforce variable weight board -- 45g in the middle, 30g out in the pinky area. I have a couple of those, and love them. I also have a 30g Plum NIZ board which I don't use much because I think it's too light -- my error level goes up on that board. But it is programmable, which is a nice feature.
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I bought my 30g from Japan via a proxy company (which purchases items in Japan and then sends them to your location for some fee). But I’m not sure whether returns are possible in this case.
If you like linear switches you’ll probably like this one. I didn’t. It really feels like a linear most of the keypress, extremely soft and somewhat oily. As for typos - I didn’t have any problems with this board (but I did have severe problems with Gateron Red in this aspect).
Yes, Plum can be a good alternative (I have one and I like it more than 30g Topre). It is way less smooth than Topre and doesn’t feel that oily and linear. In Plum you make a keypress and after a veeeeery small initial bump it just follows under your finger (it doesn’t collapse or make any resistence). But it is too slow on the return which is the main drawback for me. In Topre I even don’t feel the initial bump (but there must be definitely some since I don’t make as much typos as on light linears), the dome doesn’t feel to be collapcing but it feels like it makes some smooth resistance to your finger (and resembles linears in this aspect).
The travel distance of Topre seems to be larger (4 mm vs 3.6 mm, I suppose), and its 30g domes seem to be stiffer, than 35g Plum domes (I tried to measure Plum resistence and my inaccurate experiments showed that it was even less than 30g, something like 28g). And 30g Topre isn’t as slow on the return as Plum.
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Topre feels EXACTLY like a rubber dome keyboard.
Because it IS a rubber dome keyboard. < This is not a GOOD/BAD statement, it's a Description >
It will feel familiar, and similar to all the keyboard you've probably had growing up.
The improvement over more budget keyboards is the 2mm actuation distance, and the Slider is smoother.
That's it, There's no magic, keep expectations IN LINE.
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Uhhhh 30g is actually lighter than standard rubberdome, also it's more linear than tactile.
For Topre 55g is most tactile, 45g is decently tactile, 30g is pretty much linear. In my opinion if you want something light and feels good then 45g is a good balance.
30g will be a little bit harder to find though. However if you go with 45g you can go with either 87U or FC660C.
Linear? I love Linear!
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Topre feels EXACTLY like a rubber dome keyboard.
Because it IS a rubber dome keyboard. < This is not a GOOD/BAD statement, it's a Description >
It will feel familiar, and similar to all the keyboard you've probably had growing up.
The improvement over more budget keyboards is the 2mm actuation distance, and the Slider is smoother.
That's it, There's no magic, keep expectations IN LINE.
Topre is The Ultimate Rubber Dome keyboard.
Unfortunately the acronym is TURD, but we'll all pretend we hadn't noticed that.
I like my 55g RealForce and my 45g HHKB.
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Ok, i will consider that an option.
According to wikipedia they have a layout that says
PLUM
READON this
and all the rest of the letters are jumbled.
Here's an article about that:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLUM_keyboard (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLUM_keyboard)
Lol are you a bot??
:rolleyes:
Seriously though not that plum, this one
https://www.nizkeyboard.com/product/plum-8487108-keys-35g-electro-capacitive-keyboard-non-rgb-backlighting/
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