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Offline boradori007

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Need help with picking my next keyboard
« on: Thu, 27 March 2014, 16:50:22 »
Hello everyone,

I bought my first mechanical keyboard back in 2011 (Filco Majestouch Brown TKL) and it's still working wonderfully.
Now, even though I love my Filco I am itching to tryout something new. I've been browsing through the forum and
I stumble upon Topre switches. I came up with a conclusion that Leopold FC660C will be perfect for my next new
keyboard (because of the price range and arrow keys) but after some research I realize that it is really difficult to
find custom keycaps for Topre keyboards and this is a huge deal breaker for me, so now I do not know what to do.
Maybe I should wait for CM Novatouch? But I'm assuming that CM's keyboard quality isn't good as Leopold.

What do you guy's think I should do?

BTW I mainly use my keyboard for heavy gaming (RTS, MOBA) and typing.

Thanks!

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Re: Need help with picking my next keyboard
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 27 March 2014, 17:11:44 »
Hello everyone,

I bought my first mechanical keyboard back in 2011 (Filco Majestouch Brown TKL) and it's still working wonderfully.
Now, even though I love my Filco I am itching to tryout something new. I've been browsing through the forum and
I stumble upon Topre switches. I came up with a conclusion that Leopold FC660C will be perfect for my next new
keyboard (because of the price range and arrow keys) but after some research I realize that it is really difficult to
find custom keycaps for Topre keyboards and this is a huge deal breaker for me, so now I do not know what to do.
Maybe I should wait for CM Novatouch? But I'm assuming that CM's keyboard quality isn't good as Leopold.

What do you guy's think I should do?

BTW I mainly use my keyboard for heavy gaming (RTS, MOBA) and typing.

Thanks!

CM keyboard quality is fine, in fact the QFR is one of the most recommended keyboards on GH!

No-one (well, very, very few people, and they are not allowed to tell) know what the Novatouch is like, but I imagine it will be similar to the QFR, except with Topre switches.
"Because keyboards are accessories to PC makers, they focus on minimizing the manufacturing costs. But that’s incorrect. It’s in HHKB’s slogan, but when America’s cowboys were in the middle of a trip and their horse died, they would leave the horse there. But even if they were in the middle of a desert, they would take their saddle with them. The horse was a consumable good, but the saddle was an interface that their bodies had gotten used to. In the same vein, PCs are consumable goods, while keyboards are important interfaces." - Eiiti Wada

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