Would anybody recommend Otaku full-sized Leopold FC500R, with MX Brown switches?

[eth0s]

My friend wants to buy his first mech keyboard, and he has his heart set on the Otaku full-sized Leopold FC500R, with MX Brown switches:

http://elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=leopold,fullsize&pid=fc500rtabn

I think it's a bad choice, but he seems pretty smitten.  Should I try to talk him out of it?

Personally I would recommend a TKL Otaku Leo, I would say this one:  http://elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=leopold,tenkeyless&pid=fc200rtabn

Actually, I don't like Otaku, and I would recommend a keyboard with letters, but it's his choice I guess.

What would you tell him to do?

[nullstring]

Why do you think the TKL is so much better than the fullsize?
You ask us our opinions, but you don't state any use case or criteria.

[eth0s]

Well, TKL is better for gaming, and this guy plays a lot of games.

Plus he is an art student, so he doesn't use the number pad for school either.

If he was an accountant, I maybe would recommend a number pad, but otherwise no.

But now he said he wants Blue switches, because, in his mind "clicky means mechanical".

So I'm switching my recommendation to this Rosewill: 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823201040&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-_-pla-_-Keyboards-_-N82E16823201040&gclid=CIW1t6mL_rUCFY6e4AodwEAAtw

Mainly because elitekeyboards is out of stock of full sized keyboards with blues, and IIRC Rosewill is a decent brand, and the price is okay too, especially for a student.

If there is a good CoolerMaster full-size with blues, can somebody let me know?

[Saturn]

Sometimes, especially for your first mechanical keyboard, you just gotta get the one that you've got your eye on.  If he really wants a full-sized Otaku FC500R, then he might as well get it.

I have a Leopold and it was all right for a first mech kb, but I wouldn't buy another.  Especially the 500, which uses an even weirder spacebar than the other Leopolds.  Even the "universal space bar" won't fit it, I think.  If he ever wants to change his keycaps out, that will be a problem.

[420]

i have 2 leopolds 500 n 700....

well leopold is a good price keyboard compare to the others... but yes the negative part is the spacebar... different from others...

the otaku u have to get used to it for a while... i mean cmon once you are on a mechanical keyboard you dont really see letters anymore..

but my choice would be get a ninja / normal... and buy an otaku set and start replacing like slowly... a-z first.... 1-0... f1-f12...

i use full size keyboard for home... and the TKL for LAN tournaments.. it fits into my bag perfectly.