Genius mechs

[mouse.the.lucky.dog]

I was looking at mechs on Amazon.
Stumbled across this one http://www.amazon.com/Genius-Illuminated-Mechanical-Notebook-Keyboard/dp/B00LTNZ08E/ref=sr_1_24?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1410586529&sr=1-24&keywords=mechanical+keyboards
made by Genius. There was a bunch of others but this was the first one that I actually checked was mechanical.

Up until now I dod not know that Genius made keyboards, much less mechs.

What's the skinny on them?

[Oobly]

Never seen them before, but that actually looks quite damn nice! Completely standard layout, low profile, removable USB, MXswitches, blue backlight. If I still used full size boards I may be tempted. Even has some interesting functions like toggling WASD as arrows.

I have an old Genius rubber dome that has served me very well. It's survived all kinds of abuse and still feels good for a RD keyboard. Actually still got a couple of their mice, also still fully functional. IMHO, they're a reliable brand. Nice to see more companies making mechs.

[johndavis33]

I know they make kailh switch boards, like the from that infamous broken yellow stem pic.

[IvanIvanovich]

Those come in TKL too. I've seen those same boards with like 4 or 5 different brand names though so it's unclear who the actual OEM is.

[Puddsy]

I think these are kalih

I remember reading that somewhere, probably reddit

[FoxWolf1]

I suppose there could be more than one version, but so far, every picture of these that I have seen that actually shows the switches in the keyboard shows Kailhs.



Until there's some evidence that examples with Cherry switches actually exist, I would err on the side of caution and assume that sellers like this one are mistaken.