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Offline volund

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« on: Wed, 22 February 2012, 18:07:31 »
Ok....

I'm looking for a new board, something a bit different from my frigging massive Razer Blackwidow, but still sticking with MX Blue switches. My first thought was something really tiny, like a Poker, RACE, or Choc Mini, but none of those seemed "right" for me.

So I started looking a bit bigger, to Tenkeyless boards, but there don't seem to be many options

So far I've seen reviews on the Filco tenkeyless, which is going for around $150 from KeyboardCoUK on Amazon, and the Leopold Tenkeyless from elitekeyboards at around $110. Am I missing any potential options?

My main criteria is that the keyboard comes in black, and has Cherry MX Blues

it would be nice if the board had a detachable USB cable, but I can live without that.
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Offline hcry4

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« Reply #1 on: Wed, 22 February 2012, 18:11:03 »
Leopold is cheaper and has a detachable cable, but I still prefer Filco. I like Filco more not only for the stabilizers, but for the slightly more solid feel. Either one is a good choice though.
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Offline IvanIvanovich

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« Reply #2 on: Wed, 22 February 2012, 18:15:26 »
Keycool, Ducky are other options in black tenkeyless with blue switch. Not necessarily recommend but available. If you can live with gunmetal grey body and lots of logos there is CM Storm.
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Offline volund

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« Reply #3 on: Wed, 22 February 2012, 18:21:41 »
After shipping (free prime shipping at amazon) they are within $30 of each other, so the price difference isn't to big of a deal to me really.

what specifically do you mean by "more solid"? If I'm not mistaken both are plate mounted switches.
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Offline hcry4

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« Reply #4 on: Wed, 22 February 2012, 22:30:42 »
I guess the casing feels a bit more solid to me.
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Offline useless_people

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« Reply #5 on: Wed, 22 February 2012, 23:02:51 »
I just got a Cooler Master CM Storm Quickfire Rapid with the MX Blues and I really like it. It comes with a detachable cable and has extra keycaps for the WASD and Windows keys. And this is just something random but the font on the keys is similar to that of the Razer keyboards, even though you might change them out, the stock ones are the same.
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Offline jonnybastard

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« Reply #6 on: Wed, 22 February 2012, 23:36:12 »
You can't go wrong with a Filco, they're great boards.
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Offline flyball

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« Reply #7 on: Wed, 22 February 2012, 23:40:23 »
white (grey) leopolds are 89 on ek
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Offline regca

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« Reply #8 on: Thu, 23 February 2012, 00:29:23 »
Quote from: flyball;522710
white (grey) leopolds are 89 on ek

Agreed. Probably the best price to quality ratio you're going to get. You can also pay an extra 20$ for a black one.
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Offline Ragnorock

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« Reply #9 on: Thu, 23 February 2012, 00:37:20 »
Go with the Leo if you like white for sure. Such a good deal. Other than that I love my Ninja keycaps so you can try the Filco if money isn't that big of an issue.
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Offline eth0s

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« Reply #10 on: Thu, 23 February 2012, 01:53:27 »
I have 2 Filco's and 2 Leo's.  For some reason it was love at first sight with the Filco's, but the Leo's are really growing on me as time goes by.   Plus Leo's are cheaper and easier to get in different switches (at least in US from elitekeyboards.com).

Oh yeah, and get a TKL and you will not regret it.  Poker, Race, Choc mini are not the same, and are a bit gimmicky, IMO.  The various Mini layouts are not bad, but the TKL is a real keyboard.
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Offline Roguemaster8

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« Reply #11 on: Thu, 23 February 2012, 03:04:20 »
I'd say A Quickfire Rapid, as the Leopolds are great for price and all, but the stabilizers don't match up to Costar's.
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Offline daniel0731ex

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« Reply #12 on: Thu, 23 February 2012, 10:31:21 »
You can't go wrong with the Quickfire Rapid, they appear to have Filco quality with a bargain price.
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Offline shogrran

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« Reply #13 on: Thu, 23 February 2012, 11:55:07 »
Quote from: daniel0731ex;523105
You can't go wrong with the Quickfire Rapid, they appear to have Filco quality with a bargain price.

Make it +3 to the quickfire rapid.
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Offline boredgunner

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« Reply #14 on: Thu, 23 February 2012, 13:20:22 »
I vote for the CM Storm QuickFire Rapid.  Mine is great.
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Offline volund

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« Reply #15 on: Thu, 23 February 2012, 20:34:32 »
Thanks for all of the input guys, there is just something about the QF Rapid that I don't like, probably the excessive amount of branding on it, I would have to paint it plus get a set of replacement keys for it, as the font is just as bad as on the blackwidow

I'll probably just go with the white Leopold from EliteKeyboards, and get a set of black doubleshots somewhere down the line.
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Offline MKB

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« Reply #16 on: Fri, 24 February 2012, 02:01:29 »
That will look sweet
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Offline volund

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« Reply #17 on: Fri, 24 February 2012, 09:07:58 »
I thought so :P
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Offline thingaboutlips

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« Reply #18 on: Fri, 24 February 2012, 09:32:31 »
Quote from: volund;523761
Thanks for all of the input guys, there is just something about the QF Rapid that I don't like, probably the excessive amount of branding on it, I would have to paint it plus get a set of replacement keys for it, as the font is just as bad as on the blackwidow

I'll probably just go with the white Leopold from EliteKeyboards, and get a set of black doubleshots somewhere down the line.


You're better off with the QF Rapid + new keycaps imo
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Offline volund

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« Reply #19 on: Fri, 24 February 2012, 09:42:30 »
As I said, I'm not happy with the amount of branding on the QF, which would just end up with a rather lousy paintjob.
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Offline Horgath

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« Reply #20 on: Fri, 24 February 2012, 12:25:32 »
I´d like a Leopold TKL...but there is no ISO version afaik :(
The QF should be released as ISO this march...so maybe i´ll get one.
I agree with the branding...the spacebar / tribal stuff is definately too much :(
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Offline omuerte

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« Reply #21 on: Sat, 25 February 2012, 01:06:01 »
I'm pretty happy with my filco. I bought a couple of extra leopolds to try blue and clear switches and found I didn't really like the stabilizers on the leos as much as the stabilizers on the filco. Keypresses on the cherry stabilizers feel odd to me somehow.


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If you buy a Filco you will have to also get replacement keycaps for it if you value texture on the keys.

Can't wait for Q4 when WASD rolls out the tenkeyless; then the one true keyboard will reign.
If only they'd offer thick PBT keys as an option instead of just the thin ABS stuff :(
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